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Labor Relations Representative roles qualify for E-3 visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring a bachelor's degree in human resources, industrial relations, or a related field. Australian professionals bring highly transferable skills in enterprise bargaining and workplace law to U.S. employers navigating collective agreements and NLRA compliance.
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Schneider Electric is seeking an experienced Labor Relations Leader based in Nashville, TN to shape and execute our labor strategy across North America. This individual contributor role serves as the primary labor relations expert for our unionized operations in the United States and Canada (6 U.S. sites, 1 Canada), while also advising on broader employee relations strategy across the Global Supply Chain (GSC) manufacturing and distribution center facilities in region.
This is a highly visible, strategic role that partners closely with senior HR and Supply Chain leaders, including the GSC NAM Vice President of Human Resources, Cluster Vice President, Plant Managers, and the HR Directors for unionized plants. The successful candidate will influence long-term labor strategy, lead collective bargaining efforts, and help ensure a consistent, positive, and compliant employee experience across our manufacturing footprint.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Labor Relations Strategy:
- Develop and execute a multi-year labor relations strategy aligned with Schneider Electric’s operational, supply chain, and workforce objectives.
- Coach HR and leaders on labor best practices, and to effectively manage labor relations through strong understanding and application of the collective bargaining agreement.
- Track labor relations trends, union activity, legislative developments, legal rulings, and economic factors to proactively inform labor strategy within the manufacturing workforce.
Collective Bargaining & Contract Administration:
- Lead end-to-end negotiation planning, including strategy development, data analysis, costing, budget alignment, proposals, communications, contingency planning, internal governance, and execution.
- Serve as the chief spokesperson in national and regional collective bargaining negotiations.
- Support and guide both local and national negotiations across U.S. and Canadian unionized sites.
- Build and maintain constructive, trust-based relationships with site and regional union leadership. Manage escalations beyond the site level.
- Advise leaders and HR partners on contract interpretation, administration, grievances, and dispute resolution.
- Partner with site HR and Supply Chain teams to ensure consistent and compliant application of collective bargaining agreements.
- Lead post-negotiation implementation, communications, and training to ensure leaders understand and apply contract changes effectively.
Travel & Work Environment:
- Up to 25% travel, with increased travel during negotiation cycles.
- Hybrid role based in Nashville, TN; in-person presence required for negotiations and key site engagements.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Labor Relations, or a related field (Master’s degree preferred).
- 10+ years of progressive HR experience, including leadership roles in manufacturing or plant environments.
- Direct experience leading collective bargaining negotiations and labor strategy development; multiple negotiations strongly preferred.
- Labor relations or employee relations experience including handling grievances, negotiating collective bargaining agreements.
- Demonstrated success influencing senior leaders and partnering with executive teams.
- Strong knowledge of employment law, labor relations, and HR strategies.
- Proven ability to develop, influence, and execute long-term labor strategy in complex environments.
- Strong planning, execution, organizational and analytical problem solving skills.
- Able to think creatively and strategically to successfully mediate and negotiate with individuals internally and externally.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
(External) English Qualifications:
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(External) English Company Boiler Plate:
Looking to make an IMPACT with your career?
When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values – Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork – starts with us.
IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.
We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.
Become an IMPACT Maker with Schneider Electric – apply today!
€36 billion global revenue
+13% organic growth
150,000+ employees in 100+ countries
1 on the Global 100 World’s most sustainable corporations
You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled.
Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best. We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate, and ‘inclusion’ is one of our core values. We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do.
At Schneider Electric, we uphold the highest standards of ethics and compliance, and we believe that trust is a foundational value. Our Trust Charter is our Code of Conduct and demonstrates our commitment to ethics, safety, sustainability, quality and cybersecurity, underpinning every aspect of our business and our willingness to behave and respond respectfully and in good faith to all our stakeholders. You can find out more about our Trust Charter here.
Schneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct.
INTRODUCTION
Schneider Electric is seeking an experienced Labor Relations Leader based in Nashville, TN to shape and execute our labor strategy across North America. This individual contributor role serves as the primary labor relations expert for our unionized operations in the United States and Canada (6 U.S. sites, 1 Canada), while also advising on broader employee relations strategy across the Global Supply Chain (GSC) manufacturing and distribution center facilities in region.
This is a highly visible, strategic role that partners closely with senior HR and Supply Chain leaders, including the GSC NAM Vice President of Human Resources, Cluster Vice President, Plant Managers, and the HR Directors for unionized plants. The successful candidate will influence long-term labor strategy, lead collective bargaining efforts, and help ensure a consistent, positive, and compliant employee experience across our manufacturing footprint.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Labor Relations Strategy:
- Develop and execute a multi-year labor relations strategy aligned with Schneider Electric’s operational, supply chain, and workforce objectives.
- Coach HR and leaders on labor best practices, and to effectively manage labor relations through strong understanding and application of the collective bargaining agreement.
- Track labor relations trends, union activity, legislative developments, legal rulings, and economic factors to proactively inform labor strategy within the manufacturing workforce.
Collective Bargaining & Contract Administration:
- Lead end-to-end negotiation planning, including strategy development, data analysis, costing, budget alignment, proposals, communications, contingency planning, internal governance, and execution.
- Serve as the chief spokesperson in national and regional collective bargaining negotiations.
- Support and guide both local and national negotiations across U.S. and Canadian unionized sites.
- Build and maintain constructive, trust-based relationships with site and regional union leadership. Manage escalations beyond the site level.
- Advise leaders and HR partners on contract interpretation, administration, grievances, and dispute resolution.
- Partner with site HR and Supply Chain teams to ensure consistent and compliant application of collective bargaining agreements.
- Lead post-negotiation implementation, communications, and training to ensure leaders understand and apply contract changes effectively.
Travel & Work Environment:
- Up to 25% travel, with increased travel during negotiation cycles.
- Hybrid role based in Nashville, TN; in-person presence required for negotiations and key site engagements.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Labor Relations, or a related field (Master’s degree preferred).
- 10+ years of progressive HR experience, including leadership roles in manufacturing or plant environments.
- Direct experience leading collective bargaining negotiations and labor strategy development; multiple negotiations strongly preferred.
- Labor relations or employee relations experience including handling grievances, negotiating collective bargaining agreements.
- Demonstrated success influencing senior leaders and partnering with executive teams.
- Strong knowledge of employment law, labor relations, and HR strategies.
- Proven ability to develop, influence, and execute long-term labor strategy in complex environments.
- Strong planning, execution, organizational and analytical problem solving skills.
- Able to think creatively and strategically to successfully mediate and negotiate with individuals internally and externally.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
(External) English Qualifications:
Let us learn about you! Apply today.
(External) English Company Boiler Plate:
Looking to make an IMPACT with your career?
When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values – Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork – starts with us.
IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.
We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.
Become an IMPACT Maker with Schneider Electric – apply today!
€36 billion global revenue
+13% organic growth
150,000+ employees in 100+ countries
1 on the Global 100 World’s most sustainable corporations
You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled.
Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best. We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate, and ‘inclusion’ is one of our core values. We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do.
At Schneider Electric, we uphold the highest standards of ethics and compliance, and we believe that trust is a foundational value. Our Trust Charter is our Code of Conduct and demonstrates our commitment to ethics, safety, sustainability, quality and cybersecurity, underpinning every aspect of our business and our willingness to behave and respond respectfully and in good faith to all our stakeholders. You can find out more about our Trust Charter here.
Schneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as a Labor Relations Representative
Frame your enterprise bargaining experience precisely
U.S. employers often don't recognize Australian industrial relations terminology. Translate your enterprise agreement negotiation experience into U.S. equivalents: collective bargaining, NLRA compliance, and grievance arbitration. This directly signals specialty occupation qualification to hiring managers reviewing E-3 sponsorship cases.
Target employers with union-represented workforces
Manufacturing, healthcare, and public transit companies with unionized employees have ongoing labor relations needs and established HR infrastructure to support E-3 sponsorship. Their legal teams already handle LCA filings, making your sponsorship request a routine process rather than a new undertaking.
Search for E-3 sponsorship roles on Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to identify Labor Relations Representative openings with employers who have active sponsorship history. Migrate Mate surfaces roles matched to Australian professionals and manages your LCA filing and consulate preparation from offer to approval.
Verify your degree meets specialty occupation standards
The E-3 requires your role to normally require a bachelor's degree in a specific field. For Labor Relations Representatives, DOL and USCIS expect a degree in human resources, industrial relations, labor economics, or law. A general business degree may require supporting documentation linking your coursework to the role.
Request LCA filing before your start date is set
Your employer files the Labor Condition Application with DOL before your visa application. LCA certification typically takes seven business days, but employer delays in initiating the process are common. Confirm your HR contact has submitted the LCA to FLAG.dol.gov before you book your consulate appointment.
Prepare for consulate questions on dual intent limitations
Unlike H-1B, the E-3 doesn't carry statutory dual intent protections. Consular officers may probe your nonimmigrant intent. Prepare clear answers about your role's defined scope, your employer's U.S. operations, and your ties to Australia to address this directly.
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Find Labor Relations Representative JobsLabor Relations Representative E-3 Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Labor Relations Representative jobs with E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is the most direct way to search for Labor Relations Representative roles where employers are open to E-3 sponsorship. Standard job boards don't filter by visa type, so you're often applying blind. Migrate Mate surfaces roles matched to Australian professionals with E-3 sponsorship history, saving you from pursuing employers who have never navigated the process.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does a Labor Relations Representative role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
Yes, provided the position requires a bachelor's degree in a specific field such as human resources, industrial relations, labor economics, or law. USCIS evaluates whether the degree requirement is tied to the actual job duties. Roles focused on NLRA compliance, collective bargaining, and grievance arbitration have well-established degree-field connections that support specialty occupation classification.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for Labor Relations Representative roles?
The E-3 is significantly more accessible for Australian nationals in this field. There's no lottery, no annual cap that could block your application, and no registration fee. You can apply directly at a U.S. consulate in Australia after your employer secures LCA certification. H-1B requires lottery selection, a longer employer-side process, and typically higher legal costs for your sponsor.
Can I switch employers while working as a Labor Relations Representative on an E-3?
Yes, but your new employer must file a fresh LCA with DOL and you'll need a new E-3 visa stamp if you travel internationally, or a change of status filing if you're already in the U.S. There's no portability provision equivalent to H-1B's AC21. Plan your transition timeline around your current visa stamp's expiry and your new employer's readiness to initiate the LCA process.
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