Our client is seeking an experienced, hands-on Senior Human Resources Business Partner / Human Resources Manager to support its national distribution operations across Canada.

As the dedicated HR partner for approximately 300 employees across 10 distribution locations, you will serve as a trusted advisor to operational leaders and senior management. You will play an important role in building engaged, high-performing teams while ensuring compliance with applicable employment legislation, workplace standards, and organizational policies.

This is a broad HR generalist role with a strong operational focus. You will coach and advise managers, lead recruitment for key positions, manage employee relations matters, support performance management, champion health and safety initiatives, and contribute to employee learning and development.

Reporting directly to the Vice-President & General Manager, you will operate with a high degree of independence and autonomy while partnering with corporate HR specialists across areas such as payroll, benefits, compensation, HRIS, and learning management.

What You’ll Do

Partner with Leaders

- Collaborate with the VP & GM to develop and implement HR plans aligned with business objectives.
- Build strong relationships with site managers and operational leaders across Canada.
- Provide practical, business-focused HR advice and coach leaders through day-to-day people matters.
- Develop practical tools, resources, and guidelines to promote consistency in HR practices.
- Support organizational change initiatives and workforce planning.

Lead Talent Acquisition

- Manage the full recruitment lifecycle for key roles across sales, business development, management, and other business-critical functions.




- Develop recruitment strategies and build talent pipelines to support current and future workforce needs.
- Support and promote management trainee and leadership development programs.
- Partner with managers throughout the recruitment process, including job requisitions, postings, candidate selection, and offers.
- Maintain job profiles, position documentation, and assessment tools.

Drive Performance & Employee Development

- Lead and support performance management initiatives from onboarding through ongoing development and career progression.
- Coach managers on performance improvement and employee development plans.
- Identify learning and development needs and coordinate appropriate training initiatives.
- Support programs designed to strengthen employee engagement, development, and retention.

Champion Employee Relations

- Conduct and support workplace investigations.
- Advise managers on progressive discipline, performance concerns, and terminations.
- Support the resolution of workplace conflicts and employee relations matters.
- Partner with corporate HR resources to effectively manage leaves of absence and related employee matters.
- Ensure HR practices comply with applicable employment legislation and organizational policies.

Promote Health & Safety Excellence

- Develop programs, resources,



and tools that foster a proactive workplace safety culture.
- Support workplace incident investigations and corrective actions.
- Help ensure health and safety programs are effectively implemented and maintained across locations.
- Partner with operational leaders to reinforce secure workplace practices.

What You Bring

- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Industrial Relations, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- 8+ years of progressive HR experience, ideally within a broad HR generalist or business partner capacity.
- For candidates coming from an HR Manager background, significant experience in employee relations, recruitment, health and safety, and manager coaching is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to influence, advise, and build credibility with operational leaders and senior management.
- Strong interpersonal, coaching, and communication skills.
- Experience supporting distribution, logistics, manufacturing, or other multi-site operational environments.
- Strong knowledge of employment practices and employee relations.
- Experience working with Workday or a comparable HRIS/payroll platform.
- Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and support geographically dispersed teams.
- Willingness to travel periodically to operational sites across Canada.

Why This Opportunity

This position offers the opportunity to take ownership of a broad HR portfolio and work closely with senior leadership in a highly operational environment. You’ll have significant autonomy and the ability to directly influence people practices, leadership effectiveness, employee development, and organizational performance across a national operation.

📌 Senior Human Resources Business Partner (Abbotsford)
🏢 Goldbeck Recruiting
📍 Abbotsford