Brendan Fontyn

• Increased the quality of new hires by refining job descriptions, setting clear expectations, and establishing performance metrics for success.
• Managed a high-performing talent acquisition team of 7 Talent Acquisition Partners, fostering professional development opportunities, setting performance goals, and providing continuous support for success.
• Negotiated contracts and managed budget for recruiting expenses.
• Evaluated and updated company recruitment processes to ensure alignment with industry best practices and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

• Supporting 3 Craft breweries within the Labatt network: Mill Street Brewery (Toronto), Stanley Park Brewing (Vancouver), Banded Peak Brewing (Calgary)
• Provide strategic support and consulting to supervisors, managers, and directors on short-term and long-term activities & initiatives
• Lead employee engagement strategy resulting in +21% in annual engagement survey score (85%)
• ZBB (zero based budgeting) lead for Craft breweries
• Manage People budget using monthly estimates for vacancies & sub-package spend, deep dives on monthly results and visibility to leadership team
• Coach and train managers on how to effectively manage employee issues (absenteeism, progressive discipline, investigations, etc.)
• Built PowerBI dashboard on absenteeism data for managers to utilize to manage manpower & disciplines as well as PowerBI skills matrix to bring visibility and control to cross training frontline staff
• Promote inclusion and diversity initiatives to ensure diverse workforce and diverse perspectives
• Build succession planning with Senior Leadership Team to ensure healthy talent pipeline
• Leading People strategy across Craft Canada Breweries

• Provide end-to-end recruitment support to Recruitment Consultants and hiring managers
• Interpret, apply, and communicate the Employment Policy, as well as collective
bargaining agreement provisions related to recruitment, redeployment, salary
administration, and corporate clearance
• Working with union reps on employee issues, grievances, second step hearings
• North American Zone People Pillar Award - Top score in Warehouse management system (Distribution Process Optimization) across North America
• Built PowerBI dashboard to empower leadership team to make decisions on discipline, succession planning, manpower levels, etc.
• Supported warehouse distribution center operations as well as National Office
corporate Logistics team (5 Directors + 1 VP)
• Coached & mentored supply chain trainees on site

• Led, executed and managed a 12% reduction in unionized workforce (unionized population of over 3000 employees) as well as a production ramp up of a new
aircraft program
• Facilitate weekly manpower meetings with production directors to ensure site alignment on manpower requirements
• Grievance Management – ensuring union rep and manager are following the process, and resolve potential and ongoing issues in a proactive manner.
• Lead on company investigations (harassment, aircraft damage, disciplines)
• Leveraging the AES (Achieving Excellence System) to create and monitor KPIs to identify key areas of focus for HRBPs
• Thorough knowledge of company collective agreements (UNIFOR Local 112, UNIFOR Local 673)
• Hosted training sessions for line managers as the subject matter expert (SME) in overtime management, and stress in the workplace
• Process site absenteeism report – weekly report that rolls up to the site leadership balanced scorecard metrics

• Managing all aspects of layoff and recall processes (bumping rights, recall rights,
etc)
• Responsible for coordinating and organizing all manpower movements across
the whole site (over 2,500 employees)
• Manage all grievances and control the grievance database (over 800 grievances per year)
• Coordinate 2nd step grievance hearings, ensuring all participants are present, monitor the timing and effectiveness of the meetings
• Involved in recruitment process – screening resumes, conducting interviews, job posting
• Process payroll for all union representatives on site including vacation pay,
clearing union alternates, and union clearances
• Responsible for coordinating arbitration hearings with lawyers and arbitrators
• Comprehensive knowledge of collective agreements (UNIFOR Local 112, UNIFOR Local 673)
• Liaise and participate in investigations (harassment, aircraft damage, disciplines)
• Take part in problem solving exercises for various issues relating to human resources in order to obtain root cause and implement a solution
• Support the whole HR team with special projects and high priority issues