Human Resources Generalist
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Houston • Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Oversee onboarding and offboarding procedures, including personnel transactions, employee orientations, documentation, and maintaining compliant records.
- Address employee concerns and inquiries, offering guidance and solutions to foster a positive and professional work environment.
- Review and revise HR templates to incorporate policy, legal, and organizational updates.
- Participate in HR projects such as policy development, process improvements, and other initiatives.
- Interpret and enforce company policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with local, state, and federal employment laws.
- Keep precise and current employee records, including personnel files and HRIS entries.
- Assist in identifying training needs, support the development of employee training programs, manage the course catalog in the company’s Learning Management System (LMS), and track completion.
- Facilitate, communicate and promote employee training opportunities and resources.
- Oversee the management of learning course assignments, enrollments, and reporting within the LMS to ensure HR and Legal compliance.
- Create reports on HR metrics, trends, and HRIS-tracked activities for management review.
- Support the performance review process by guiding managers and employees on goal setting and performance improvement plans.
- Manage the HR general mailbox by promptly acknowledging inquiries, providing guidance, and supporting overall employee communication and messaging. Escalate concerns when needed.
- Monitor and troubleshoot time clock issues, verify hours for accuracy before payroll processing, coordinate corrections with managers, and ensure timely approval of bi-weekly timecards.
- Manage employee leaves of absence in accordance with federal and state regulations and company policies, including communicating and tracking eligibility and documentation.
- Coordinate with third-party administrators, communicate status, and explain return-to-work requirements to employees and managers.
- Support payroll processing by reviewing employee status changes, new hire tax documents, and data updates, including adding pay codes for unique or non-standard compensation scenarios such as bonuses, retro pay, leave of absence, and running necessary pre-open and pre-check payroll reports before approving the final payroll register.
- Monitor leave usage and ensure accurate payroll entries and benefits adjustments throughout the leave period.
- Coordinate with payroll managed services to handle off-cycle checks, corrections, and urgent payroll adjustments.
- Manage employee recognition programs, including data handling, award distribution, and reporting.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
- Minimum of five (5) years of experience in HR operations or related roles.
- Strong knowledge of federal and state employment laws and regulations.
- Experience supporting leave of absences in collaboration with a third-party administrator.
- Proficiency in HRIS platforms, including experience managing employee data, processing transactions, running standard to moderately complex reports, and supporting system accuracy and data integrity.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, including advanced Excel (formulas, pivot tables, data analysis) and effective presentation abilities using PowerPoint and other Microsoft applications.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to handle confidential information with discretion and professionalism.
Benefits
- Excellent Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision & 401K Matching)
- Excellent growth and advancement opportunities
- Paid vacation, sick time and 15 holidays
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
HR operationsemployee onboardingemployee offboardingpolicy developmentperformance improvement plansleave of absence managementpayroll processingdata analysisreport generationHRIS management
Soft skills
communication skillsinterpersonal skillsproblem-solvingdiscretionprofessionalismguidanceemployee relationstraining facilitationorganizational skillsteam collaboration