HR Business Partner

HR Business Partner

Are you an experienced HR professional ready to make a meaningful impact? If you're passionate about supporting employees and leaders and bring strong expertise in benefits, compensation, and employee relations, we want to meet you!

Martin/Martin is seeking an HR Business Partner to join our Denver-based Human Resources team. This role serves as a key backup to the HR lead for benefits administration and compensation while also supporting employee relations, workplace investigations, compliance, performance management, and employee and manager training.

Martin/Martin, Inc. is a civil, structural, and investigative consulting engineering firm, headquartered in the Denver area, built on experience and industry leadership cultivated since the 1940s. Our engineered solutions are developed through a culture of integrity, service, creativity, and quality for the benefit of our clients and the community.

With ten office locations and a staff of 400+, Martin/Martin engineers have project experience in all 50 states and on all seven continents. (Yes, even Antarctica!)

The corporate team at Martin/Martin, Inc. supports the following engineering teams below:

• Our civil engineering teams focus on site and infrastructure design, including leading projects such as the 16th Street Mall redesign in Denver.
• Our structural engineering teams provide custom solutions for new constructions and expansions, with a strong record in notable projects like Coors Field, the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine, and Harbor center.
• Our investigative engineers are pivotal in supporting ongoing projects by planning and implementing repairs, renovations, and improvements for buildings and sites.

Responsibilities

• Support managers and employees with workplace concerns, performance expectations, coaching, corrective action, conflict resolution, and consistent application of company policies
• Assist with timely and objective employee relations investigations, documentation, and recommended actions in partnership with HR leadership
• Support compliance with employment laws and benefit plan requirements, including updating policies, job descriptions, records, communications, and HRIS data
• Develop and conduct employee and manager training on employment law, HR policies, compliance, benefits, performance management, and workplace practices
• Support onboarding, employee engagement, and professional development programs
• Stay current on employment law, benefits and compensation practices, industry trends, and HR technology
• Serve as a key backup to the HR lead in administering health and welfare, leave, and related benefit programs, including enrollments, qualifying life events, employee status changes, benefit terminations, communications, and issue resolution
• Support annual open enrollment and vendor relationships, including plan review, system configuration, employee education, eligibility audits, and required reporting
• Serve as a key backup for compensation programs

Requirements

Required

• BA in human resources, psychology, business, or a similar field, or equivalent experience/certification
• 5 or more years of HR Business Partner, including substantial hands-on responsibility for benefits, compensation, and employee relations
• Demonstrated experience administering health and welfare, retirement, and leave benefits, including enrollment, open enrollment, employee questions, and vendor issue resolution
• Experience advising managers on performance and corrective action and conducting objective workplace investigations
• Experience developing and conducting employee and manager training
• Working knowledge of applicable employment and benefit laws and regulations, including ERISA, COBRA, HIPAA, ACA, FMLA, and state and local pay equity and transparency requirements
• Demonstrated ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with integrity
• Ability to develop strong, trusting relationships and communicate effectively with employees and leaders at all levels
• Strong analytical, organizational, coaching, verbal, and written communication skills
• Ability to manage competing priorities and maintain composure during difficult or confrontational situations
• Pro…