HR Assistant

Essential responsibilities:

• Nurture a positive working environment.
• Answer phones and transfer calls.
• Assist in planning, organizing, and implementing various employee relations programs.
• Attends and participates in employee disciplinary meetings, terminations, and investigations.
• Updates payroll records by entering changes in exemptions, insurance coverage, savings deductions, job title and department/division transfers.
• Assist with employee benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and PTO.
• Manage time clocks such as setting up new employees, editing time punches and fixing timecard errors.
• Resolves payroll discrepancies by collecting and analyzing information.
• Assisting in the overall recruitment process such as, posting ads, reviewing resumes, setting up interviews, and onboarding process
• Manage and update physical and digital employee files.
• Maintain employee confidence and protect payroll operations by keeping information confidential.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Help with various tasks as requested.
• Support of and involvement in company, department, and/or safety policies, procedures, programs and activities.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education Requirements:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one-year related customer service experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Competencies/skill Qualifications:

• Proficient with windows
• Great at problem solving and mathematical skills.
• Great communicator either by phone or e-mail to resolve problems.
• Act as a reliable and supportive team member.
• Organizational skills
• Team oriented.
• Reliable
• Honest
• People skills and communications skills
• Ability to keep confidential information.
• Fluent in Spanish