People Development Advisor

Branch: Gas

Affiliation: Management & Exempt

Employment Status: Full-Time Temporary

Salary Min: $48.82 hourly

Salary Max: $60.62 hourly

Short-term Incentive Eligible: No

Workplace Flexibility: Yes

Temp Duration: 15 Months

Posting End Date: Open until filled

As the province’s largest energy provider with more than 100 years of knowledge and experience, we proudly deliver renewable energy, natural gas, electricity and propane to 1.3 million customers.

We're actively seeking new talent to join our mission of transforming B.C.'s energy landscape. As one of BC's Top Employers with a diverse team of over 2,700 employees, we are committed to a safe and inclusive culture where each of us can connect, belong, and grow. Join us, and together, let's shape a brighter future for B.C.

Position Overview

You’re a passionate team player who values building strong, trusting relationships. As a strategic thinker, you influence audiences with your expertise, providing impactful learning opportunities and solutions for talent growth. You care about people’s success and support their professional and leadership development.

Your passion for career growth makes you the ideal People Development Advisor. You will guide employees from onboarding through career milestones, cultivating talent and fostering professional advancement. As a trusted advisor, you’ll collaborate with business leaders to support succession and strategic workforce planning by identifying skill gaps and future trends.

In this role, you will:

• Build relationships with business leaders and functional areas within your assigned portfolios to support skill development for our workforce and to immediate future business needs.
• Support our people’s development through existing and newly formed training, processes and initiatives as part of our roadmap to support our strategic initiative of creating an inclusive, resilient and skilled workforce.
• Support existing and new enhancements and implementation of technology and processes of various modules from goals, performance and succession within the Systems Applications and Products in processing (SAP) platform, with a strong emphasis to support existing tasks within critical cycles including year-end performance review, goal setting processes, and succession.
• Support and facilitate leadership and professional development programs offered in-house and external vendors.
• Support ongoing business requests to identify, analyze and provide timely and relevant learning solutions aligned with individual, leader, business or department learning and development plans.
  
  

What it takes:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Business or Adult Education.
• A minimum of 4 years' experience within Human Resources with an active role in corporate training and learning and development.
• A strong understanding and ability to apply adult education, instructional design, learning and development theories, principles, and practices within various phases of program development.
• Good time management skills with a strong ability to stay highly organized
• Strong facilitation skills within live virtual and in-person course delivery.
• A natural ability to build and influence relationships across the organizations at all levels.
  
  

In this role, you will have the option to participate in a flexible work program, enabling you to work from an approved flex location in British Columbia up to 85 days a year (equivalent to approximately two days a week), subject to business or operational needs.

Our engaging workplace offers a wide range of challenging opportunities, while being safe, inclusive and diverse. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, while supporting life-long career development. We also encourage volunteerism and nourish the need to give back to your community.

To learn more about the recruitment process with FortisBC, please visit the You’re Applying. What now? page for additional information.

FortisBC acknowledges and respects Indigenous Peoples in Canada, on whose Traditional Territories we all live and work. FortisBC is committed to Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples and is guided by our Statement of Indigenous Principles .