Human Resources Manager

• Bilingual English / Spanish.

Build the HR function at Ken Home — recruiting, onboarding, compliance, compensation, and the day-to-day people work — for a growing construction business.

Ken Home is the size where the absence of a dedicated HR function starts to show. We are hiring an HR Manager who can professionalize recruiting, onboarding, compensation, and compliance — while staying close enough to the business to be useful in the field, not just in the office.

This is a broad, senior-individual-contributor role today, with a clear path to HR Director as the team grows.

• Run full-cycle recruiting for non-executive roles in partnership with hiring managers; own our careers portal and candidate experience.
• Build and maintain the employee handbook, onboarding program, and 30/60/90 review cadence.
• Administer compensation, benefits, and PTO; partner with brokers at renewal.
• Own HRIS data hygiene; produce the monthly people metrics pack for the executive team.
• Lead EEOC, OFCCP (if/when applicable), ACA, and state-specific compliance — including I-9, E-Verify, and certified payroll HR components for federal work.
• Investigate and document employee relations issues; partner with outside counsel where appropriate.
• Drive DEI-in-hiring practices that are defensible on both merit and federal program grounds.
• Lead performance management; coach managers through difficult conversations.
• Partner with the COO on organizational design as new roles are added.

• 7+ years of HR experience, with at least 3 years as an HR Generalist Lead or HR Manager.
• Construction, engineering, manufacturing, or other blue-collar-plus-white-collar industry background strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of federal labor law (FLSA, FMLA, ADA, Title VII), Texas employment law, and construction-specific compliance (Davis-Bacon, certified payroll coordination, OSHA recordkeeping partnership).
• Proficiency with at least one modern HRIS (Rippling, Gusto, BambooHR, Paylocity, ADP Workforce Now).
• Bachelor's degree; SHRM-CP / SHRM-SCP or PHR / SPHR strongly preferred.
• Discretion — this role sees everything.

• Experience scaling HR from ~50 employees to ~200+.
• Prior HR work with federal primes (DBE / HUB / SDVOSB compliance experience).
• Bilingual English / Spanish.

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage (employee premium 100% covered; dependents heavily subsidized)
• 401(k) with 4% company match, vested immediately
• 20 days PTO + 11 paid holidays; separate sick bank
• 12 weeks paid parental leave
• $3,000 annual continuing-education and certification stipend
• Life, AD&D, and short/long-term disability
• Relocation support for role-critical hires