Sr. HR Generalist

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc. (MHIA) is looking for a Senior HR Generalist to join our team. This is a hybrid role based out of our Plano, Texas location.

For over 130 years, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group’s innovative and integrated solutions have demonstrated our commitment to creating a positive social impact around the globe. Our range of products and services is tailored to meet our customers’ evolving needs across the commercial aviation, energy, transportation and infrastructure, machinery, defense and space systems sectors.

Our culture embraces diversity and cooperation, and we promote a healthy balance of professional and personal development, ensuring that your ideas and expertise are valued and respected.

The Senior Human Resources Generalist provides senior-level general HR support by partnering with business leaders and managers to make informed HR decisions, address employee matters, take appropriate corrective actions, and support alignment with corporate HR initiatives. This role serves as a trusted HR resource on policy interpretation, employee relations, compliance, HR systems, and core HR operations, helping managers and employees understand and apply HR processes consistently.

The ideal candidate will have at least 7 years of related experience
in HR operations or related roles.

• Partner with business leaders and managers to assess HR needs, provide informed guidance, and support sound people decisions related to employee relations, performance concerns, corrective actions, policy interpretation, and organizational priorities.
• Advise managers on appropriate documentation, coaching steps, corrective action processes, and escalation points to help ensure decisions are consistent, compliant, and aligned with company practices.
• Support implementation of corporate HR initiatives, programs, communications, and change-management activities by helping translate requirements into practical guidance for managers and employees.
• Maintain working oversight of HR operations, including onboarding, offboarding, HRIS data, employee records, payroll coordination, training/LMS, recognition, and reporting; understand these processes in sufficient detail to provide backup support, educate managers, and ensure consistent, compliant execution.
• Support onboarding and offboarding activities by ensuring managers understand process requirements, documentation expectations, timing, and employee communication needs; provide backup support for personnel transactions and orientations when needed.
• Assist in identifying employee and manager training needs, support the development and communication of training programs, maintain course catalog accuracy in the Learning Management System (LMS), and monitor completion to support compliance and workforce capability.
• Maintain familiarity with timekeeping and payroll approval processes to identify recurring issues, educate managers and employees on expectations, coordinate corrections with appropriate stakeholders, and support timely, accurate bi-weekly payroll preparation.
• Serve as a resource for employee leaves and reasonable accommodation administration by identifying when leave-related needs arise, educating employees and managers on eligibility, documentation, and return-to-work expectations and supporting compliant handling of leave and accommodation matters.
• Support payroll coordination by reviewing employee status changes, data updates, leave-related entries, and non-standard pay scenarios; work with payroll resources and managers to resolve discrepancies, corrections, or urgent adjustments.
• Monitor workforce trends, HR metrics, recurring employee issues,…