Agility Recruiting is searching on behalf of their client, a stable and growing construction company in Oakland, for a SHRM certified HR Generalist.
With more than 75 years of continuous service, our client is passionate about providing employees with opportunities for career advancement and a great place to work. They are family-orientated and highly value the expertise and experience of their team.
They offer:
- Career growth potential
- Outstanding company culture: work/life balance, friendly team environment, and employee recognition programs
- Opportunity to participate in community outreach programs and other charitable endeavors
- Competitive salary
Position Summary:
Supervised by HR/Payroll Manager; The HR Generalist is responsible for completing a variety of tasks related to the daily operations of the HR department and backup payroll.
Responsibilities:
Working on all issues related to employee relations.
- Investigate and document all types of employee relations issues ranging from performance management to harassment, to bullying and present findings and make recommendations to managers.
- Create and/or manage and edit specialized job evaluations tailored to each position in the company and schedule and oversee job evaluations.
- Generate and process final/offboarding paperwork with terminating employees
Manage all recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and termination of employees.
- Create and update job descriptions and post to job boards
- Review applicants from professional networking sites, Company website, job boards and in person applications.
- Schedule best candidates for interviews with hiring managers.
- Participate in on site interviews, give input to hiring managers.
- Generate Offer letters, send onboarding documents, and communicate with IT to ensure that necessary equipment is ready for new hire's first day
- Onboarding: process new hire document distribution and processing including but not limited to: I9, Notice to Employee, providing state required notices and company handbook.
Additional responsibilities:
- Monitoring and updating HR policies and company guidelines, ensuring compliance with government standards.
- Update the employee handbook with new policies and procedures as needed
- Generating internal documents such as offer letters and warning letters.
- Administer Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) requests.
- Draft, review, and update HR policies and employment contracts.
- Coordinate Benefit open enrollment, informing upper management, and employees about the process.
- Handle ongoing employees' requests related to benefit policies and procedures.
- Reply to government agencies' forms/requests regarding employees, including garnishment, levy, etc.
- Answer any benefit related questions that employees may have throughout the year.
- Maintain physical and digital files for employees and their documents, benefits records.
- Track anniversaries to purchase and distribute related awards and gifts.
- In-house communications including but not limited to: Policy changes, company updates, and event announcements.
- Payroll (Backup as needed)
- Process new hire paperwork
- Process payroll checks
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- SHRM certification required
- Experience as HR Generalist
- Solid knowledge of California Labor Law and Regulations
- Experience in the Construction industry (desirable)
- 3 years of experience in the Human Resource field with at least 1 year of experience at a Generalist level or higher
- Bachelor's degree in human resource management or a related field
- Must thrive in a fast-paced environment and be comfortable wearing many hats and effectively manage competing priorities
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint