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Employee Relations Specialist II - California
Posted 27 Oct
What’s this role about? The specialist manages complex, high-risk employee relations matters including investigations into discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. They provide expert consultation to leadership and HR partners to ensure consistent, legally sound employment practices.
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Company
About Blackstone Consulting, Inc. Founded in 1991 by company President Joe Blackstone, Blackstone Consulting, Inc. (BCI) is a national and international service provider performing services in Environmental, Security, Facilities Maintenance, Staffing and Food Service Management. BCI is a minority-owned company with credentials in a number of national, regional and local programs, including the NMSDC Corporate Plus Program, which attest to our commitment to excellence. We work with the leading HMO in the country, a leader in the aerospace industry, leading utility companies and many others in our core service areas.
Blackstone Consulting, Inc.
Food, Janitorial/EVS, Staffing, and Security Services

Responsibilities
- investigative support for workplace matters involving employee relations, policy
- interpretation, corrective action, performance and conduct concerns, and risk
- mitigation. The role partners with Human Resources, Operations, Legal, Labor
- Relations, and business leaders to promote consistent, fair, and well-documented
- employment practices. Level 1 manages routine through complex employee relations
- matters based on experience, judgment, business need, and case complexity. Level
- 2 serves as the advanced-level specialist responsible for the most complex,
- sensitive, high-risk, and legally significant matters, including investigations
- that may involve discrimination, harassment, sexual harassment, retaliation,
- workplace violence concerns, protected activity, agency charges, or other issues
- with significant legal, operational, or reputational risk.
- Manages routine through complex employee relations matters, including intake,
- documentation, corrective action review, fact-finding, policy interpretation,
- and follow-up, based on assigned case complexity and business needs.
- Addresses matters such as attendance, scheduling, timekeeping, documentation,
- policy compliance, misconduct, performance concerns, progressive discipline,
- and corrective action preparation.
- Conducts fact-finding and workplace investigations, including witness
- interviews, document review, timeline preparation, credibility assessment,
- findings, and case summaries.
- Advises managers, Human Resources partners, Operations, and leaders on policy
- interpretation, documentation standards, corrective action consistency,
- employee complaints, and risk mitigation.
- Identifies and escalates high-risk matters, including allegations involving
- discrimination, harassment, sexual harassment, retaliation, workplace
- violence concerns, protected activity, agency charges, significant legal
- exposure, or other risk indicators, to Employee Relations Specialist Level 2
- or appropriate leadership.
- This position does not have direct supervisory responsibilities. The role
- provides technical expertise, consultation, coaching, and guidance to leaders
- and Human Resources on employee relations matters and may lead cross-functional
- projects or initiatives without formal supervisory authority
Qualification
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- An employee must be able to perform the essential functions of this position
- Level 2: Five or more (5+) years of advanced employee relations or workplace
- investigations experience, including substantial experience independently
- handling discrimination, harassment, sexual harassment, retaliation,
- protected activity, agency, union, or other high-risk investigations.
- All levels require sound judgment, confidentiality, professionalism, strong
- documentation practices, and the ability to apply company policy consistently
- and appropriately.
- Professional certification, such as PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP, or SHRM-SCP, is
- preferred for Level 2.
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