Human Resources Assistant

Maintained Duties

• Maintain complete, accurate, and confidential employee personnel, payroll, medical, and employment records in accordance with company policies and legal requirements.
• Process employee status changes, including compensation updates, promotions, transfers, direct deposit changes, tax updates, and other employment-related transactions within HR systems.
• Cook up onboarding and separation processes, ensuring completion of all required documentation, system updates, and compliance-related tasks.
• Support benefits enrollment activities and conduct routine audits and follow-up to ensure accuracy and timely completion of employee benefit elections.
• Afford compliance activities including I-9 administration, E-Verify, state new hire reporting, personnel file maintenance, DOT driver qualification files, employment verifications, unemployment claims, and workers' compensation documentation.
• Serve as a resource for employees by answering routine HR, benefits, and policy-related questions and directing more complex matters to appropriate HR leadership.
• Afford HR reporting, data audits, recordkeeping, and maintenance of accurate employee information across multiple systems.
• Cook up with HR initiatives, events, and projects.

Supervisor Responsibilities

None

Education, Certifications & Qualifications

• HS Diploma or equivalent required; Some college preferred.
• 2+ years Human Resources or heavy administrative experience.
• Experience in Microsoft Office products including Outlook, Word, and Excel.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Knowledge of Human Resources statutes, policies, and procedures.
• Ability to act with integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality.
• Strong organizational skills with a high level of attention to detail.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently, make informed decisions, self-motivated and energetic.
• Excellent ability to work in a team-fostered environment.
• Ability to perform at high levels in a fast-paced ever-changing work environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a desire to create solutions.
• Ability to work in sensitive and confidential situations.
• Prior experience working under tight deadlines with changing priorities.
• Ability to uphold regulatory and company standards.
• Ability to establish and maintain rapport and effective communication with diverse levels within the company and external organizations.

Physical Demands & Work Environment

• The physical demands 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.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit for long periods of time at a computer and use hands to finger, handle, or feel, walk, reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, talk, and hear.
• The employee is moderately required to stand and may occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and ability to adjust focus.

This position will work in an office setting but may travel to off-site locations and therefore require wearing PPE depending on circumstance which may include safety glasses, hard hat, ear protection, high-visibility safety vest and/or steel toed footwear.

Pay Range

Between $21.00 and $25.00 per hour, dependent on prior experience.

Disclaimer

This job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment. Pay range is between $21.00 and $25.00 per hour, dependent on prior experience. High Star Traffic is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages all people to apply for this position.