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Bronson Methodist Hospital

Southwest Michigan health system

Employee Relations Specialist 1

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/24/2026
No salary listed
Mid
Bachelor's
Kalamazoo, MI, USA
In Person
People & HRHR Generalist & Employee Relations

About the job

Requirements
  • Education and/or experience equivalent to a bachelor's degree is required.
  • A minimum of 3 years of experience in Human Resources is required.
  • The role requires integrity and trust, including discretion, honesty, and appropriate candor.
  • The role requires attentive and active listening and the ability to accurately restate others' views.
  • The role requires customer focus and the ability to build effective relationships with internal and external customers.
  • The role requires negotiation and conflict-management skills, including settling disputes equitably and maintaining relationships.
  • The role requires problem-solving skills, rigorous analysis, and the ability to identify underlying issues.
  • The role requires the ability to interact equitably with people across diverse backgrounds and support fair treatment and opportunity.
  • The role requires composure and the ability to handle stress and unexpected situations.
  • The role requires approachability, rapport-building, and sensitivity to interpersonal concerns.
  • The role requires commitment to ongoing self-development and adapting approaches to different situations.
  • The role requires planning skills, including scoping tasks, setting goals, scheduling work, anticipating obstacles, and evaluating results.
  • The role requires clear and effective written communication.
Responsibilities
  • Collaborate with human resources colleagues to develop, plan, and deploy processes and systems that foster a high-performing, fully engaged workforce.
  • Provide day-to-day consulting, mediation, facilitation, and guidance on employee-relations issues across the organization.
  • Design and deploy action plans addressing engagement and climate surveys, exit interviews, and employee communications.
  • Develop metrics that measure organizational engagement and provide leading indicators for proactive solutions.
  • Conduct fact-finding investigations using best-practice methodologies to identify root causes and solutions.
  • Oversee engagement and climate surveys and other employee-engagement processes, interpret results, and develop follow-up programs.
  • Work with people leaders, Equity and Inclusion colleagues, and Center for Learning colleagues to implement strategies that support employee and organizational development, engagement, performance, safety, and work practices.
  • Develop and manage exit- and stay-interview processes to identify themes and organizational solutions that improve retention.
  • Assist in setting strategic direction for employee relations by evaluating external and internal factors affecting the work environment and developing strategies and tactics for positive change.
  • Provide consulting services on employee-relations matters to all organizational levels.
  • Engage proactively with the organization to eliminate or minimize employee-relations issues.
  • Mediate employee-relations issues by meeting with supervisors and employees to identify their sources and facilitate resolution.
  • Consult with administration, general counsel, and the Office of Equity and Inclusion on equitable employee treatment and minimizing liability and litigation exposure.
  • Support administrators during organizational realignments, reallocations, financial exigency, or other reduction-in-force plans, ensuring affected parties can access available resources.
  • Facilitate employee-relations educational courses and provide materials to supervisors.
  • Maintain familiarity with HelpNet, the Employee Resource Network, and Success Coaches to support employees.
  • Consult with people leaders on performance-management issues and deploy corrective-action measures.

About the company

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Bronson Methodist Hospital

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Bronson Methodist Hospital is a nonprofit health system serving southwest Michigan. The system provides hospital, primary, specialty, emergency, outpatient, rehabilitation, and community health services through regional care locations. It serves patients, families, clinicians, referring providers, and communities throughout southwest Michigan. Its operating model centers on coordinated hospitals and practices supported by clinical programs, technology, facilities, supply chain, and administration. Teams work across nursing, physicians, allied health, rehabilitation, technology, facilities, administration, and patient access. Work depends on coordination among clinical, operational, technical, and support teams across its care settings and communities.

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