Senior Human Resources Generalist

The Senior Human Resources Generalist is an experienced member of the Gallaher organization’s People & Culture team, providing comprehensive HR support across Gallaher Signature Living (GSL), Gallaher Homes, Gallaher Companies, and Gallaher Construction.

Operating with a high degree of independence, judgment, and accountability, this position serves as a trusted HR advisor to employees, managers, and senior leaders. The Senior HR Generalist independently manages routine and moderately complex HR matters, identifies potential risk, recommends practical solutions, and appropriately escalates significant employee relations, legal, regulatory, or organizational concerns to the Vice President, People & Culture.

The role supports a diverse workforce across senior living, hospitality, residential development, construction, and corporate operations, with responsibilities including employee relations and investigations, payroll, benefits, recruitment and onboarding, leave administration coordination, workers’ compensation, training, performance management, HR systems, and employment compliance.

The successful candidate will demonstrate maturity, initiative, sound judgment, discretion, and strong follow-through while maintaining Gallaher’s standards of professionalism, service, accountability, and employee experience.

• Serve as a trusted HR resource to employees and leaders regarding workplace concerns, policies, attendance, performance, conduct, and employee relations matters.
• Independently conduct timely, thorough, impartial, and well-documented workplace investigations involving complaints, harassment, discrimination, retaliation, policy violations, workplace conduct, and other employee matters.
• Conduct interviews, evaluate documentation and evidence, identify potential risk, and prepare investigation findings and recommendations.
• Guide managers through coaching, performance improvement plans, disciplinary actions, suspensions, terminations, and other performance-management matters.
• Apply company policies consistently while exercising sound judgment and recognizing matters requiring senior-level escalation.
• Maintain strict confidentiality and appropriately safeguard sensitive employee and company information.

• Review and support bi-weekly payroll, including timecards, payroll changes, deductions, bonuses, commissions, stipends, reimbursements, PTO, and other payroll transactions.
• Process and maintain accurate new hire, transfer, promotion, compensation, status change, and termination information within HR systems for Gallaher Construction, Gallaher Homes and Gallaher Companies.
• Serve as an employee resource regarding company-sponsored benefits and coordinate with brokers, carriers, payroll providers, and vendors as needed.
• Support open enrollment, Form I-9 compliance, employee records, and applicable record-retention requirements.
• Maintain accurate information within HRIS, payroll, timekeeping, and other People & Culture systems.

• Partner with hiring managers to identify staffing needs and support recruitment across Gallaher operations.
• Coordinate job postings, candidate screening, interviews, offers, pre-employment requirements, and onboarding while maintaining professional and responsive candidate experience.
• Provide guidance regarding candidate selection, compensation considerations, internal equity, and hiring practices within established company guidelines.
• Manage employee transfers, promotions, compensation changes, department and status changes, and terminations.
• Coordinate employee offboarding, including company property, system access, final…