Human Resources Generalist

$58,240 - $74,880/Yr

Lre Water - Denver, CO

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - Denver, CO

About the position

We are hiring! Are you ready to dive into a high-energy, fast-paced environment where your HR expertise can truly shine? LRE Water is on the hunt for an experienced and driven HR Generalist to jump into the action at our Denver office. This is not just a job—it's a chance to be at the heart of our dynamic Human Resources team, where every day brings new challenges and exciting opportunities. In this role, you'll be the go-to for a spectrum of HR functions, making sure our policies and programs aren't just followed but thrive. From navigating employee relations and spearheading employee management to ensuring we stay on the right side of labor laws, you'll play a crucial role in shaping a workplace where productivity and positivity flourish. As an HR Generalist, you will be responsible for documentation, record-keeping, auditing, and processing in your area of specialty. You will need to understand federal and state laws and apply them in all areas of HR. Acting as a subject matter expert with employment laws (especially ADA/FMLA) impacting the organization, you will support the HR Manager to resolve issues and provide coaching to employees and managers. You will coordinate recruitment efforts, including job postings, sourcing candidates, scheduling interviews, and facilitating the hiring process. Additionally, you will coordinate and deliver onboarding for newly hired employees, monitor and ensure timely benefits enrollment, and provide support and guidance to employees and managers in areas such as conflict resolution and HR policies and procedures. Your role will also involve coordinating the performance review process, offboarding employees, and working with teammates to help achieve departmental goals. You will provide training and coaching to junior staff and be open to suggestions and new ideas. This position requires you to complete tasks within the allotted time frame, produce high-quality work, and proactively and professionally communicate both internally and externally. You will demonstrate continuous effort to work efficiently and identify areas that can be elevated, suggesting and implementing process improvements with oversight from management. In addition to your core responsibilities, you will interact professionally with both internal and external stakeholders, building relationships with carrier contacts to service employees and supervisory staff to create two-way communication lines between HR and management.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for documentation, record-keeping, auditing, and processing in their area of specialty.
• Responsible for understanding federal and state laws and being able to apply them in all areas of HR.
• Act as subject matter expert with employment laws (especially ADA/FMLA) impacting the organization.
• Supports the HR Manager to resolve issues.
• Provide coaching to employees and managers.
• Coordinate recruitment efforts, including job postings, sourcing candidates, scheduling interviews and facilitating hiring process.
• Coordinates and delivers onboarding of newly hired employees.
• Monitors and ensures timely benefits enrollment.
• Coordinates benefit enrollment, updates, and terminations.
• Provide support and guidance to employees and managers in areas such as conflict resolution, disciplinary actions, and HR policies and procedures.
• Receive feedback and/or concerns, inform HR Leadership.
• Consider employee experience in all areas of HR process and implementation and execute per department vision.
• Coordinate the performance review process.
• Coordinate the offboarding of employees.
• Work with teammates to help achieve departmental goals.
• Provide training and coaching to junior staff.
• Open to suggestions and new ideas.
• Complete tasks within the allotted time frame.
• Produce high-quality work.
• Proactively and professionally communicate both internally and externally.
• Demonstrate continuous effort to work efficiently and identify areas that can be elevated.
• Suggest and implement process improvements with oversight of management.
• Provides corporate training as necessary for junior hires.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• 2+ years experience in a Generalist HR function such as HR Assistant, Admin, Coordinator, or Generalist required.
• Experience in Microsoft Office; HRIS and other software preferred.
• Knowledge of the professional standards, concepts, and practices of recruitment and selection, employee relations, or organizational development and human resource policy.
• Ability to analyze, interpret, and evaluate a broad range of laws, rules, and regulations in order to exercise good judgment in applying them to human resource challenges.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees at all levels throughout the institution.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of sensitive information.
• Ability to task-switch throughout the day while organizing time and priorities to effectively meet deadlines.
• Ability to perform a task while paying close attention to details.
• Is aware of, responds to, and considers the needs, points of views, and capabilities of others.
• Deals with conflicts, confrontations, and disagreements in a positive manner, which minimizes personal impact to include controlling one's feelings and reactions.
• Deals effectively with others in both favorable and unfavorable situations regardless of status of position.
• Presents and expresses ideas and information clearly, concisely, and effectively orally and in writing.
• Identifies need, arranges for, and obtains resources necessary to accomplish own goals and objectives.
• Identifies existing and potential problems/issues.
• Makes decisions, renders judgments, and takes action on difficult or unpleasant tasks in a timely fashion, to include the appropriate communication of both negative and positive information and decisions.

Nice-to-haves

• Public speaking skills
• Leadership experience
• Financial acumen

Benefits

• Travel reimbursement
• Health savings account
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• 401(k)
• Flexible spending account
• Tuition reimbursement
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Employee assistance program
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Professional development assistance
• Flexible schedule
• Life insurance
• Retirement plan