.PURPOSE AND SCOPE: The Staff Engineer works largely unsupervised. The Staff Engineer is involved in mentoring and teaching subordinate department or group members in order to improve their product knowledge, subject matter understanding, skills and productivity. The Staff Engineer also will be involved in setup of strategic activities, process improvements, and specific scientific studies for research and development. The Staff Engineer will often be a team leader of either internal Cross Technical Teams (CTT) or external Cross Functional Teams (CFT) and responsible to drive associated projects to completion. The Staff Engineer can also serve in a consultant role in multiple functional teams. The Staff Engineer functions as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the respective products and disciplines in which he/she is trained and expert in and may be assigned to manage various aspects of products from development, changes, improvements, replacements, etc. PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Offer comprehensive HR expertise and advice across various employee relations matters, including performance management, workplace investigations, pay issues, work environment concerns, employee policy inquiries, separation reviews, and complex employee relations cases. Handles sensitive and complex HR, Human Rights, Compliance, Ethics, and Legal investigations for all Company business lines in Slovakia. Engages in Works Council and union negotiations, contract management, and manages collective bargaining agreement requirements as needed (based on country and legal entity requirements). Provides guidance and direction regarding performance management plans and all aspects of progressive discipline and documentation. Identifies root cause issues in employee engagement and provides conflict resolution skills to both employees and managers. Ensures proper use of the case management system and providing complete and accurate documentation and reporting across all related processes. Escalates sensitive or critical matters as needed. As requested, provides education, training, and coaching to managers on conflict management, crucial conversations, performance management, harassment, and other HR related topics. Provides emergency response and crisis management support to employees. Facilitates exit interviews with voluntarily terminating employees when specifically requested. Perform additional duties as assigned. Additional responsibilities may include focus on one or more departments or locations. See applicable addendum for department or location specific functions: Architect, design, and develop robust, scalable, high volume, distributed, and secure full-scale IoT software solutions from asset connectivity, provisioning, monitoring, and device management operational dashboard to data aggregation, normalization, and integration to other enterprise services