Job Description

Company Description

On-site at Munson Medical Center ; Office hours 7am-4pm

More Than Just Care, It’s Community

Imagine doing meaningful work in a place where people vacation. That’s life at Munson Healthcare - northern Michigan’s largest healthcare system, with eight award-winning community hospitals serving over half a million residents across 29 counties.

If you want a career in healthcare and a lifestyle most people only dream about – with freshwater lakes, scenic trails, charming downtowns, a vibrant arts scene, and endless outdoor adventures - you might just be Munson Material. To us, that means teammates who live by our values of excellence, teamness, positivity, creativity, and a commitment to creating exceptional experiences for our patients and each other. Join a team that delivers outstanding care in one of the most beautiful regions in the country.

Invested in You

• Grow: Tuition reimbursement, in-person and online development, and access to our career hub to help you advance.
• Thrive: Full benefits, paid holidays, generous PTO, employee discounts, and free individual retirement counseling.
• Be Well: Free wellness platform for you and your family, plus personalized support for personal or family challenges.
• Be Heard: Share your ideas and help shape the way we work through improvement huddles, employee surveys, and town hall meetings

Job Description

Are you an experienced HR professional with a strong foundation in employee and labor relations, employment law, compliance, and strategic business partnership? Munson Healthcare is seeking a well-rounded HR Manager - HR Business Partner to serve as a trusted advisor to leaders and employees while helping shape a positive, compliant, and high-performing workplace culture.

In this role, you will partner closely with operational leaders to address complex workforce challenges, provide guidance on employee and labor relations matters, mitigate organizational risk, and ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws. You will play a key role in supporting organizational effectiveness through workforce planning, talent management, employee engagement, performance management, and change leadership initiatives.

The ideal candidate brings broad HR experience across multiple disciplines, including employee relations, investigations, leadership coaching, performance management, compliance, and workforce strategy. Experience navigating complex workplace issues, interpreting employment laws and policies, and partnering with leaders to achieve operational goals is essential. Healthcare experience is highly preferred, as is familiarity with the unique workforce challenges, regulatory requirements, and pace of a healthcare environment.

What You'll Do

• Serve as a trusted HR advisor to leaders and employees on employee relations, labor relations, performance management, and organizational effectiveness.
• Provide expert guidance on employment law, policy interpretation, accommodations, corrective actions, investigations, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Lead and manage complex workplace investigations and sensitive employee matters with professionalism, objectivity, and discretion.
• Partner with operational leaders on workforce planning, succession planning, organizational change, and talent strategies.
• Ensure compliance with employment laws, regulatory requirements, accreditation standards, and organizational policies.
• Manage and coordinate HR compliance processes related to unemployment claims, employee concerns, workplace violence prevention, HIPAA workforce matters, fit-for-duty assessments, and reasonable suspicion processes.
• Promote a culture of accountability, engagement, inclusion, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

Required Education

• Bachelor’s Degree or 7 years of supervisory/people management experience

Required Experience

• 7 years of HR/people management
• Previous and demonstrated experience in regulatory and legal compliance, documentation, conflict resolution and confidentiality

Additional Information

Are you Munson Material? Apply today!

Munson Healthcare requires all employees be vaccinated or have lab confirmed immunity for Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella. MHC also requires all employees to receive a flu vaccine during the flu season in the year that they are hired and annually thereafter, or receive an approved medical or religious exemption.