Human Resources Generalist

Overview

The purpose of the Human Resources Generalist is to coordinate onboarding, offboarding, leave requests for team members, and maintain compliance with many different entities. This position is the first point of contact for most of the company onsite or by other means, and an infallible level of discretion and confidentiality is mandatory. This position will maintain records, electronically and physically, regarding a variety of programs.

The Harbor HR Generalist is a broad-based position requiring flexibility and adaptability to a wide variety of initiatives, processes, locations, departments, senior leadership, managers, and all team members and is a key part of a friendly and dynamic HR team.

This position is onsite in Lacey, WA

Compensation: $28-38/hour.

Hourly: Full-Time

Benefits

Summary:

Benefits for Harbor Team Members include vacation, sick time, personal floating holiday, paid holidays, medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, 401(k) retirement plan with a generous employer match and some great Harbor perks

Essential Job Functions:

• Administers pre-employment process to include drug tests and all required background checks.
• Administers all required documentation for all leaves of absence and workers compensation (WC) claims.
• Coordinates onboarding of all new hires from the point of accepted offer to completion of new hire orientation.
• Responsible for ensuring a smooth and engaging weekly new hire orientation and presentation of company materials to new hire classes.
• Walk team members through complex leave situations, including overlapping FMLA/ADA/PFML or PLO, etc.
• Help team members navigate their workers compensation claims with compassion.
• Manages team member offboarding.
• Responsible for building and maintaining team members' files electronically.
• Responsible for building and maintaining DOT Driver qualification files.
• Responsible for facilitating the DOT random process, including scheduling DOT drug tests and following up with leadership to ensure timely compliance.
• Creates new hire and replacement security access cards.
• Support and respond to HRIS questions and needs, such as password resets.
• Support and respond to policy and Handbook questions.
• Responsible for the daily maintenance of our HRIS, including new hires, department, and job and department changes.
• Responsible for preparing payroll change sheets to include new hires, referral bonuses, and badge access replacements.
• Responsible for completing past employment verifications.
• Other duties the manager assigns may include one-time HR projects, events, and/or community and/or team member involvement.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of employment law, state and federal, is preferred.
• Exposure to administering leave of absences is highly preferred.
• Knowledge of DOT Driver statutes under the FMCSA and processes is preferred.
• Effective skills in using Excel spreadsheets, Microsoft Outlook, and other Microsoft suite programs required.
• Ability to file, possess organizational skills, have excellent written and oral communication skills, and be able to make presentations to small groups.
• Ability to document, in detail, employee concerns on a variety of subjects, including company policy, and benefits, and help employees with other issues which may affect their work life.
• Ability to be confidential because of the information this position is exposed to on a daily basis.
• Ability to work well with other employees to foster a respectful and professional work environment.

Education and Experience:

• BA in Human Resources, Business or a relevant field of study or experience equivalent to this education preferred.
• Two to five years of related Human Resource experience as a Generalist or HR Assistant.
• Intermediate to advanced skills with MS Office and prior experience with an HRIS system or equivalent.