Human Resources Manager

About the role

Build the HR function at KenHome — recruiting, onboarding, compliance, compensation, and the day-to-day people work — for a growing construction business. The role is designed for a stage where the absence of a dedicated HR function starts to show. We are hiring an HR Manager who can professionalize recruiting, onboarding, compensation, and compliance while staying close enough to the business to be useful in the field, not just in the office. This is a broad, senior-individual-contributor role today, with a clear path to HR Director as the team grows.

Responsibilities

• Run full-cycle recruiting for non-executive roles in partnership with hiring managers; own our careers portal and candidate experience.
• Build and maintain the employee handbook, onboarding program, and 30/60/90 review cadence.
• Administer compensation, benefits, and PTO; partner with brokers at renewal.
• Own HRIS data hygiene; produce the monthly people metrics pack for the executive team.
• Lead EEOC, OFCCP (if/when applicable), ACA, and state-specific compliance — including I-9, E-Verify, and certified payroll HR components for federal work.
• Investigate and document employee relations issues; partner with outside counsel where appropriate.
• Drive DEI-in-hiring practices that are defensible on both merit and federal program grounds.
• Lead performance management; coach managers through difficult conversations.
• Partner with the COO on organizational design as new roles are added.

Requirements

• 7+ years of HR experience, with at least 3 years as an HR Generalist Lead or HR Manager.
• Construction, engineering, manufacturing, or other blue-collar-plus-white-collar industry background strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of federal labor law (FLSA, FMLA, ADA, Title VII), Texas employment law, and construction-specific compliance (Davis-Bacon, certified payroll coordination, OSHA recordkeeping partnership).
• Proficiency with at least one modern HRIS (Rippling, Gusto, BambooHR, Paylocity, ADP Workforce Now).
• Bachelor's degree; SHRM-CP / SHRM-SCP or PHR / SPHR strongly preferred.
• Discretion — this role sees everything.

Nice to have

• Experience scaling HR from ~50 employees to ~200+.
• Prior HR work with federal primes (DBE / HUB / SDVOSB compliance experience).
• Bilingual English / Spanish.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage (employee premium 100% covered; dependents heavily subsidized).
• 401(k) with 4% company match, vested immediately.
• 20 days PTO + 11 paid holidays; separate sick bank.
• 12 weeks paid parental leave.
• $3,000 annual continuing-education and certification stipend.
• Life, AD&D, and short/long-term disability.
• Relocation support for role-critical hires.