HR Generalist

About Us

Our commitment to quality and communication have kept us serving Greater Seattle Homeowners for over 50 years. As a family-owned business, we’re dedicated to building community through robust team-building, training or volunteering throughout the year. Our growing team of hard-working innovators lead with curiosity and care, and our core values are Courageous Communication, Professionalism, Ownership, Fiscal Responsibility, and a Growth Mindset.

About The Role

The HR Generalist supports the day-to-day HR operations that ensure compliance, accuracy, and smooth employee lifecycle processes across the company. Reporting to the Senior Controller, this role focuses on HR administration, payroll support, benefits coordination, onboarding, employee records management, and policy compliance. The HR Generalist ensures that HR processes are consistent, timely, and well-documented while partnering with Finance to maintain accurate data flows between HR, payroll, and job-costing systems.

What You'll Do

• Coordinate full new-hire onboarding, including pre-hire paperwork, orientation scheduling, system setup, and first-week experience.
• Administer Gaspar’s U training program: manage schedules, track completions, coordinate facilitators, and maintain all required training documentation.
• Own the HRIS/HCM in Rippling for core HR, talent management, recruiting, and learning and development.
• Manage company orientation sessions, ensuring new employees receive consistent, high-quality introductions to policies, culture, safety, and systems.
• Maintain and update the HR sections of the company intranet (SharePoint), ensuring employees have access to current policies, forms, and resources.
• Maintain accurate, compliant employee files, I-9s, onboarding documentation, and audit-ready HR records.
• Process employee status changes, compensation updates, promotions, and terminations, ensuring accurate data flow to Finance and payroll.
• Administer benefits enrollment, life event changes, carrier updates, and monthly benefits audits for accuracy.
• Manage employee leaves of absence (FMLA, WA PFML, ADA), ensuring documentation, tracking, communication, and payroll coordination are accurate.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws, HR policies, safety-related requirements, and recordkeeping standards.
• Serve as the first point of contact for employee HR questions, providing clear answers or escalating to the Senior Controller as needed.
• Create and manage internal team events, including the annual Hammer Awards, quarterly team-building sessions, and all-company trainings; lead development of the monthly All-Company Meeting slideshow to ensure clear, engaging communication.
• Oversee the Safety Committee and support OSHA and L&I issues.
• Maintain HRIS data integrity and support system updates, reporting, audits, and continuous improvement of HR workflows.
• This is not necessarily an all-inclusive list of job-related responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field preferred; or equivalent experience.
• 3–5 years of HR experience in generalist, HR operations, or HR coordination roles.
• Strong understanding of federal, state, and local employment laws, including WA-specific regulations (PFML, Paid Sick Leave, EAP, wage & hour, accommodations).
• Experience administering onboarding, benefits, payroll changes, and HR compliance processes.
• Hands-on experience maintaining HRIS systems, employee records, and data accuracy.
• Familiarity with Microsoft 365 (Teams, SharePoint, Excel, Outlook) and comfort learning new systems.
• Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail and follow-through.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information appropriately.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to support and interact with employees at all levels.
• Experience coordinating training programs, scheduling, or compliance tracking preferred.
• Construction or job-costing environment experience a plus but not required.
  
  

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401k (with 4% company match after 1 year).
• FSA
• Group Life, STD, LTD, and other ancillary insurance benefits.
• $50/month cell phone allowance.
• 10 days of paid vacation in the first year.
• 7 days of paid sick leave per year.
• 11 paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s.
  
  

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: Work is performed in a jobsite environment. Possible exposures encountered, such as hazardous materials, loud noise, or extreme heat/cold. Essential physical requirements, such as climbing, standing, stooping, or typing. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to have the ability to maintain active customer and employee communication in English; access, input and retrieve information from a phone or tablet. May be subject to repetitive motion such as bending, reaching, kneeling, stooping, hammering, and lifting up to 75 pounds.

The Pay Range For This Role Is

79,490 - 95,388 USD per year(US National)