**POSITION SUMMARY** As an HR Coordinator, you’ll be at the heart of a fast-paced, dynamic HR team, providing essential support within employee lifecycle activities, HR operations, and employee engagement. You’ll handle key administrative functions such as onboarding, while ensuring a seamless experience for managers and new hires. We are looking for someone who wants to grow and make a positive and personal impact within the employee experience and rapid growth of Southland. This role will bring opportunities to enhance processes, build relationships, and grow your HR skills to make an impact in a people-centered organization. If you’re detail oriented, bring a natural customer service mindset, and passionate about helping people thrive, this role is perfect for you! Although your primary employee base will be the California locations, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate across our company. **_*This is not a remote role and will prioritize working hours on location, with travel up to 10% outside of the Garden Grove, CA office._** **What you’ll do:** + Develop effective partnerships with internal clients, such as HR team members in shared service, HRBPs, and strong relationships with employees and managers at all levels. + Participate as a key contributor in the employee lifecycle activities, which include onboarding, college recruiting, employee transitions, and off-boarding activities. + Provide a positive first impression during pre-employment and onboarding activities for multiple divisions, which require organized and thoughtful communications to guide new hires in the process. Conduct new hire employee orientations, in person and virtually to provide an interactive experience. + Support the growth of Southland’s Early Career Program, by participating in your division’s college recruiting program, with activities such as resume screening, phone screen intern candidates, and contribute during the summer intern program. + Maintain employee records with timely filing and consistently following processes. Play a key role in your respective location’s data management activities, as well as following the process associated to employee’s change of status and accurate transfer of information into formal offer letters and documents. + Overtime, aspire to grow in your role to support creation and independently project manage HR projects to support business needs, with a focus on process improvements. **What you’ll need to be successful:** + Proven ability to build and maintain very effective relationships, while supporting local and remote managers/employees. + Ability to apply critical thinking with a solution-oriented mindset, as well as follow processes and procedures across the function within the employee lifecycle. + Demonstrate a work style that excels in a collaborative office environment, fostering effective communication, team synergy, and a positive workplace culture. + Maintain high level of confidentiality where required by policy and/or law (drug screen results, HIPPA restrictions, employee disciplinary actions, etc.). + This is not a remote role as relationship building and employee/manager interactions are important. Prioritizing working hours on location, with potential travel on a quarterly basis to offices in Northern California .Other travel 1-2 times a year for HR team meetings and professional development. Approximately up to 10% travel. **What you bring to the table:** + Bachelor’s degree **required** . (HR degree preferred, such as Human Resources Management, Organizational Development, Business Administration/Management) + If degree is in other field of study, intent to obtain a PHR/SPHR or SHRM-CP/SHRM-SCP Certification preferred. + 1-2 years of experience (HR internship experience can be included) + Basic knowledge of employment law, recruitment, and employee lifecycle processes. + Strong communication skills that require active listening and critical thinking to obtain all the information to achieve the task, while flexing communication styles/approach for internal clients. + Very strong organizational and prioritization skills; ability to meet deadlines and manage changing priorities in a fast-paced, quickly changing, and sometimes ambiguous environment; ability to work independently; excellent customer service skills with timely responses to high volume requests. + Construction, Engineering or similar industry experience welcomed. **YOU Matter**   **PEOPLE FIRST: BUILDING TALENT BY DESIGN**   At Southland we aspire to build a workforce that’s as diverse as the people who occupy the buildings we design, build and maintain. Building talent by design is our intentional approach to creating a truly safe, collaborative, and inclusive work environment that fosters growth, empowers professional achievement, and where people are treated with respect at all levels.   If you’re someone with a true passion for our industry, a life-long learner, with high accountability and a drive for results we’re looking for you!  At Southland, we hire problem solvers that are focused on providing customer value through continuous improvement and will take ownership to create the best experiences that will have an impact wider than their own job.  We thrive on creating a strong company and culture where you’ll feel engaged, challenged, and valued.   If you’re ready for the next big step in your career and want a career full of fun and excitement and to be a part of a fast-paced growing company, then  **JOIN**  our team and become a part of an organization that values  **PEOPLE** ,  **SAFETY, INNOVATION, COLLABORATION, INTEGRITY, ACCOUNTABILITY & SUSTAINABILITY.** **Benefits:** As an employee-owned company, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes excellent benefits for you and your family: + 401(k) Plan with  **50% Company Match** (no cap) and immediate 100% vesting + Annual incentive program based upon performance, profitability, and achievement + **Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance – 100% Paid for Employee** + Term Life, AD&D Insurance, and Voluntary Life Insurance + Disability Income Protection Insurance + Pre-tax Flexible Spending Plans (Health and Dependent Care) + Holidays/Vacation/Personal Time/Life Events Leave + Numerous training opportunities and company paid membership for professional associations and licenses **Pay:** Final pay is determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data. For (California) this ranges from $28.00-$31.00/hour plus annual incentive, benefits and retirement program as outlined above.   **For more information on Southland Industries, please visit our website: ** Southland Careers (http://southlandindcareers.com/) ** or on ** Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/SouthlandInd) ** or ** LinkedIN (https://www.linkedin.com/company/22132?trk=tyah&trkInfo=tarId%3A1408634606883%2Ctas%3ASouthland%20industries%2Cidx%3A2-1-4) ** **   To hear what our employees are saying about working at Southland Industries, check out our Culture site - **Explore Our Culture (https://southlandind.com/culture)**   Southland Industries and all its subsidiaries are an  **Equal Opportunity Employer ** and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing our employees with a safe work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Southland Industries are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, family care or medical leave status, veteran status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Southland Industries will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.   ****All employment offers are contingent upon successful, drug tests, background checks and professional reference checks. ****   ****We are not able to offer sponsorship of employment at this time****   If you don’t feel this position is a match for you, we encourage you to share it with others. Feel free to share throughout your social networks and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram to keep up to date on what we’re doing as a company. Required Skills Required Experience