Human Resources Generalist

Job Details Level: Experienced

Job Location:

Wichita Office - Wichita, KS 67226

Position Type:
Full Time Education Level: 4 Year Degree Job Category:
Human ResourcesOPEN ROAD BRANDS | HUMAN RESOURCES

• Position: HR Generalist
• FLSA Status:
  Full-time, Exempt
• Department:
  Human Resources
• Reports to:
  
  Head of Human Resources
• Location:
  
  Wichita, KS (on-site)
• Entities:
  Open Road Brands / Allied
• Direct reports:
  None
• Effective:
  September 2026

Open Road Brands creates products that connect, transforming art into scalable products, from Americana and nostalgia to licensed brands people love. We are a growing, licensed-brand manufacturer and wholesaler operating from multiple locations.

our core values define how we work:

• Drive (Fuel):
  Wake up wanting it.
• Creative (Vision):
  Build what isn’t there yet.
• GSD (Execution):
  Finish it. Own it.
• Extra Mile (Scope):
  Better by default. Okay isn’t good enough.
• Do What’s Right (Integrity):
  The hard right over the easy wrong.

The Human Resources Generalist owns the daily people operations of Open Road Brands and Allied. This role runs biweekly payroll, administers benefits end to end, carries full-cycle recruiting for exempt/non-exempt openings, resolves first-level employee relations matters, and delivers the recognition and events program,

The person in this seat is measured in completeness, cycle time, sound judgment, and follow-through. It suits someone who is organized, discreet, and unflappable when four urgent things land at once.

• Decides and closes routine benefits matters directly with employees and carriers.
• Decides which candidates advance in hourly and non-exempt searches and delivers finalists to hiring managers.
• Determines whether first-level employee matters warrant coaching or documentation, and closes them independently.
• Directs the recognition and events program, what, when, and how within the approved annual budget.

Reserved to Head of Human Resources: benefit plan design, renewals, and cost decisions; compensation bands and FLSA classifications; salaried and executive searches; serious employee relations matters as defined under Key Responsibilities; and HR strategy and policy governance.

• Process biweekly payroll in Paycom end to end, verify time records, PTO, and pay changes; resolve discrepancies; submit on schedule. The Head of HR serves as trained backup.
• Maintain employee data in Paycom, including new hires, status changes, terminations, and reporting relationships, etc.
• Maintain employee files to the ORB records taxonomy, including confidential, medical, and I-9 segregation requirements.
• Complete employment verifications, unemployment claim responses, and routine compliance reporting.

• Own benefits administration start to finish: process enrollments, changes, and qualifying life events; interpret plan rules for employees.
• Resolve employee benefits and claims issues directly with employees and carriers through closure.
• Run open enrollment execution end-to-end, communications, meetings, enrollment processing, and reconciliation.
• Escalate plan design, renewal, and cost-impact questions to Head of HR.

• Serve as the first point of contact for employee questions on pay, benefits, PTO, leave, and policy; resolve routine questions directly.
• Take the first conversation on routine employee relations matters, attendance, minor conflicts, policy issues, and exercise judgment on coaching versus documentation; assist in drafting write-ups and close matters independently.
• Escalate matters involving potential termination, legal exposure, harassment, or manager conduct to the Head of HR, with a…