About the Role
The HR Generalist is a key member of the Human Resources team, responsible for supporting day-to-day HR operations across the organization. This role will assist in managing employee relations, recruitment, benefits administration, compliance, and employee engagement initiatives. The HR Generalist plays a critical role in ensuring a positive employee experience while maintaining compliance with federal, state, and local regulations and company policies.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Support full-cycle recruitment efforts, including posting job openings, screening candidates, scheduling interviews, and extending offers.
Coordinate onboarding processes for new hires, ensuring all paperwork is completed and orientation sessions are conducted.
Serve as a point of contact for employees regarding HR-related concerns, escalating complex issues to the Senior HR Manager when necessary.
Support investigations and resolution of employee complaints and concerns in a timely manner.
Assist in the administration of employee benefits programs.
Address employee inquiries related to payroll and benefits.
Ensure compliance with labor laws and regulations, including FMLA, ADA, and EEO guidelines.
Maintain accurate employee records in HR systems and files, ensuring confidentiality and security.
Assist in planning and executing company-wide events, training sessions, and engagement activities.
Support initiatives to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Communicate and enforce company policies and procedures.
Provide guidance to employees and managers on HR policies and practices. Partner with the Senior HR Manager on special projects and HR strategy initiatives.
Stay up to date on HR best practices and trends to enhance processes and employee satisfaction.
Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion.
Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, training, compensation and benefits and personnel information systems.
Strong knowledge of the structure and content of the English language and strong communication skills both verbal and writing.
Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer service.
Knowledge of laws, legal codes and government regulations as it relates to labor laws.
Knowledge of human behavior and performance.
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Microsoft Office (Word, Access, Excel), Database software, E-mail, and Internet.
Perform duties at a high degree of accuracy.
Strong team player and willingness to work in other functional areas to cover absences or relief, and/or to equalize peak work periods or to otherwise balance the workload.
Commitment to the Tria Health mission statement, core values, motto, and employee handbook.
Education/Experience
Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resource Management or a related field or an equivalent amount of work experience.
Minimum of two years' experience as an HR Generalist.
SHRM-CP certification is preferred.
Physical Demands and Work Environment
The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the individual is regularly required to stand, bend, kneel, sit, walk, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. The vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. Individual must occasionally lift and/or move up to 5 pounds.
Work Environment: This job operates in a professional office environment where standard office equipment such as computers, phones, copiers, filing cabinets, and printers are utilized. The noise level in the work environment is usually minimal.
Location: Tria Health is located at 1729 Grand Boulevard, Kansas City, MO (Crossroads area).
Hours: 40-hour workweek, Monday – Friday in office position.
This job description should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements and may be changed at any time.