Senior HR Generalist

Build a career powered by innovations that matter!  At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible.  We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.  Looking for a great place to work?  You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment.  Come explore Novanta.

Company Overview

Build a career powered by innovations that matter.  At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing - improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible. We serve as a trusted technology partner to medical and advanced industrial original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide, engineering components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications - from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

Novanta is a global organization with offices located throughout EMEA, The Americas and Asia Pacific.  Novanta is a publicly traded company on NASDAQ under symbol NOVT.

Job Summary

The Senior HR Generalist plays a critical role in supporting frontline managers and enabling HR initiatives by managing core HR activities and employee relations responsibilities. This role focuses on delivering high-quality HR support across the end-to-end employee lifecycle, including local compliance, change management, coaching, workforce planning and process guidance. As a trusted partner to People Leaders, and in strong partnership with Talent Partners and Centers of Excellence, the role ensures consistent execution of workforce and people programs aligned with global standards and local requirements.

Your Responsibilities

• Enable managers to execute HR cycle processes by coaching on enterprise-wide HR programs, policies, tools and annual people processes.
• Provide guidance and coaching to People Leaders on performance management, employee development, feedback conversations and performance improvement plans.
• Manage employee relations matters, conduct investigations as required and support managers with disciplinary actions while ensuring local compliance.
• Ensure timely and accurate HRIS transactions and maintain data integrity to support compliance and business decision-making.
• Drive continuous improvement of HR processes, policies and ways of working, supporting adoption of HR technology and change initiatives.
• Collaborate with HR Centers of Excellence to deploy programs locally and ensure compliance with local labor laws and company policies.
• Support local workforce planning activities including hiring, organizational changes, restructuring and reduction in force programs in partnership with Talent Partners.
• Coordinate and execute core HR activities including onboarding, offboarding, employee communications, HR documentation, employee enquiries and local HR administration.
• Review engagement, onboarding, offboarding and exit data to identify trends and improvement opportunities and support action planning.
• Support employee engagement, culture and employee experience initiatives.
• Support M&A, integration and other business transformation activities as required.

Your Experience and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field preferred.
• Min. 5+ years of experience in HR field including previous HR Generalist role within a mid-sized or global organization.
• Strong experience in employee relations, investigations, performance management, manager coaching and HR program deployment.
• English on professional level, fluent in Czech
• Excellent verbal and written communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, with the ability to interpret workforce data and identify trends.
• Ability to act with integrity, professionalism and confidentiality.
• Sound knowledge of employment law and HR compliance requirements.
• Experience working with HRIS platforms and HR technology solutions.
• Proactive personality with continuous improvement mindset and experience supporting organizational change and transformation initiatives.
• Experience with hiring expats is a big plus.
• Prior experience with AI tools is a big plus.
• Open to occasional business trips (10%).

Benefits

• Extra week of vacation (25 days/year)
• 5 sick days per calendar year
• 1 day of paid time off for charitable activities/year
• Flexi Pass vouchers with a nominal value of 1000 CZK/month
• Contribution to supplementary pension insurance 1000 CZK/month (after the probationary period)
• Flexible working hours (core 10 – 15:00)
• Every year, wages are reassessed from 1 April
• Meal vouchers in the form of a flat rate – monetary value (123,90 CZK/day)
• Monetary allowance for working from home (max. 2 days/week)
• MultiSport for only 300 CZK/month
• Bonuses for recommending a new employee up to CZK 110,000
• Free refreshments at the workplace (juice, hot drinks – coffee, tea; healthy snacks and fruit/vegetables 2 times a week)
• Training, language courses, career advancement
• Dog-friendly office, Family-friendly environment
• Corporate events – Summer Party, Christmas Party, Family Day, SportDay, Board Game Afternoon, Meet & Greet and more
• Free parking for employees and shower at the workplace for athletes

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Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.

Please call +1 781-266-5700 if you need a disability accommodation for any part of the employment process.