Chief Human Resources Officer

Brookhaven National Laboratory (www.bnl.gov) delivers discovery science and transformative technology to power and secure the nation’s future. Brookhaven Lab is a multidisciplinary laboratory with seven Nobel Prize-winning discoveries, 37 R&D 100 Awards, and more than 70 years of pioneering research. The Lab is primarily supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science. Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA) operates and manages the Laboratory for DOE. BSA is a partnership between Battelle and The Research Foundation for the State University of New York on behalf of Stony Brook University. BSA salutes our veterans and active military members with careers that leverage the skills and unique experience they gained while serving our country. Our organization fully supports service members transitioning from active duty to civilian life and pledge’s our commitment to actively hire veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. Military personnel who have been formally trained or have relevant experience obtained while in service may meet educational requirements and are encouraged to apply for job opportunities at BSA.

BNL is seeking a Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) to build and expand on current HR capabilities while driving strong employee-focused engagement and culture. The ideal candidate will be an enterprise-wide, collaborative, and strategic leader. This person will enable a leadership culture that supports a high functioning, progressive HR department responsible for the services, programs, systems and processes that BNL staff need to achieve the BNL’s Science mission. The individual will carry the employee cultural mantle for an organization that highly values innovation, discovery, and scientific excellence.

The CHRO position is based in Upton, New York, 60 miles east of New York City in Suffolk County. BNL has approximately 2,800 employees and is growing. BNL is a government-owned, contractor-operated facility funded through the United States Department of Energy (DOE). Visit www.bnl.gov for more info.

As part of BNL’s executive leadership team reporting directly to the Laboratory Director, the CHRO partners with executive leaders in creating and driving the Lab-wide people strategy as well as operations and resource planning for optimizing organizational effectiveness and performance. This position coordinates closely with DOE representatives (both at the local DOE Site Office and at DOE Headquarters), managing expectations and communicating information to DOE and BNL stakeholders, including accountability to the Brookhaven Science Associates Board of Directors and the Compensation Committee, with a goal of building a highly efficient and effective workforce.

The CHRO is responsible for a deeply skilled Human Resources Leadership Team comprised of Centers of Excellence of more than 90 staff including Talent Management, Compensation, Benefits, Casualty and Risk Management, Absence Management, Labor Relations, Immigration, Human Capital Management Systems, Guest, User & Visitors Center, Occupational Medicine Clinic, and deployed Senior Human Resource Business Partners.

A Culture of Inclusion & Diversity

Through our commitment to enriching our organization with people of different origins, beliefs, backgrounds, and ways of thinking, we are better able to leverage the collective power of our teams and solve some of the world’s most complex scientific challenges. We strive for a culture of trust and respect where everyone contributes their perspectives and authentic selves; reaches their potential as individuals and teams; and collaborates to work towards BNL’s overall mission. The CHRO leads staff in delivering comprehensive HR services, tools, policies, and procedures in alignment with the BNL strategy and mission.

Provides strong and effective leadership as the Laboratory’s principal human resources enterprise by leading a high-performing, service-focused HR team. Serves as a full partner and advisor to the Laboratory Director, the executive leadership team, and research directors to provide strategic guidance on all organizational and human capital issues. Develops plans that align business and scientific initiatives with sound human resources programs.

Leadership & Culture Responsibilities

• Creates and sustains a diverse and inclusive work culture where all team members are supported and can thrive.
• Preserves a Lab-wide culture of trust, transparency, safety, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Develops and mentors HR leadership to ensure healthy team dynamics, and strong collaboration and teamwork.
• Highly functioning HR executive who sustains a successful and respected partnership with DOE
• Understands the customer’s perspective and enjoys a collaborative relationship operating in a continuous results-oriented environment.
• Maintains a successful track record of contractual measures, deliverables, and notable results in human resources as a government contractor.

Strategy & Vision Responsibilities

• Develops and implements HR strategies that align with BNL’s overall mission and vision.
• Drives innovative best practices and policies that service the full range of BNL’s people strategy and helps build and sustain a high-performing equitable and inclusive culture of learning, accountability, transparency and collaboration.
• Provides strategic guidance on HR initiatives, analytics and reporting, talent reviews, training, change management, organizational design, diversity and inclusion, and safeguarding prevention-related efforts.
• Partners with BNL’s Chief Diversity Officer to support a shared mission of inclusion and diversity.
• Provides extensive expertise in the application of HR principles, concepts, theories, and practices, as well as comprehensive project leadership skills.
• Works closely with the entire BSA Leadership Team, assuring that HR considerations are integrated into Lab-wide strategic planning efforts.

Employee Experience and Potential

• Provides resources and tools for leadership to assess and plan performance and potential.
• Drives the employee experience, supporting organizational design and workforce analytics for decision making and implementing a framework for the full talent lifecycle.
• Designs and evaluates career paths, overseeing all HR functions and crafting strategies that meet the Laboratory’s business goals.
• Demonstrates progressive management values and standards, supporting the development of and providing a sense of shared direction and purpose for HR staff.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Human Resources Management, Organizational Development, Change Management, or related field.
• Requires senior-level HR operational experience with the proven ability to serve as a partner and advisor to senior management and ability to lead a highly competent and effective HR function.
• Excited and attracted to an organization that is experiencing growth.
• Proven success in creating, negotiating, and implementing highly effective and efficient systems, strategies, and capable of managing complex compensation and benefits programs.
• Demonstrated experience leading a substantive and successful organizational change initiative.
• Demonstrated ability to thrive and lead in an environment that values creativity, collaboration, innovation, intellectual curiosity, and a passion for scientific discovery.
• Experience in identifying, recruiting, and developing talent is necessary.
• Proven leadership and/or ability to manage Labor Relations including union negotiations, collective bargaining of union contracts, and solving a wide range of labor relations issues.
• Must be an advocate of cross-laboratory entrepreneurial thinking and the mentoring of high-potential leaders within the organization.
• Superb communication skills, both in writing and orally, with a broad range of constituencies is required.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a complex and highly nuanced organizational structure is necessary.
• 15-plus years of experience in Human Resources with the ability of building, leading, and inspiring a mid-sized multi-disciplinary HR team with a high regard for results-driven values
• Includes five-plus years of experience as a member, or high degree of interaction, with an executive leadership team; ability to advise and coach senior leaders.
• Outstanding written, speaking, and presentation skills.
• Superior judgment, conflict resolution, negotiating and creative thinking skills to solve complicated people and organizational issues.
• Demonstrated project management and facilitation skills in an environment with multiple, constant and competing priorities and deadlines.
• A high degree of personal integrity, ethics, and emotional intelligence.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• A graduate degree in appropriate field is strongly preferred.
• Experience working in a scientific, government, laboratory, or academic setting is a plus
• Previous experience with a federal contractor.
• Previous Director/CHRO experience at a similar-sized or larger employer.

OTHER INFORMATION:

• Ability to travel is essential.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

At Brookhaven National Laboratory we believe that a comprehensive employee benefits program is an important and meaningful part of the compensation employees receive. Our benefits program includes, but is not limited to:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Care Plans
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time-off and Leave Programs (vacation, holidays, sick leave, paid parental leave)
• Lab-funded Retirement Plan
• 401(k) Plan
• Flexible Work Arrangements
• Tuition Assistance, Training and Professional Development Programs
• Employee Fitness/Wellness & Recreation: Gym/Basketball Courts, Weight Room, Fitness Classes, Indoor Pool, Tennis Courts, Sports Clubs/Activities (Basketball, Ping Pong, Softball, Tennis)
• On site Child Development Center