The Human Resources Assistant provides daily transactional support across onboarding and offboarding, benefits enrollment, leaves of absence, and workers’ compensation, and serves as a point of contact for routine employee needs. Approximately half of this role is dedicated to executive administrative support to the Senior Executive Assistant. The position is also the primary back-up for front desk coverage. The split between human resources and executive support duties is approximately 50/50 and will vary with business need; where priorities conflict, the HR VP and the Senior Executive Assistant jointly determine sequencing.
Location: Torrance, CA (Onsite)
Primary Expectations/Responsibilities:
Human Resources Support (approximately 50%)
- New Hire Documentation: Create and maintain new hire packets and personnel folders. Follow up with new hires for missing paperwork required for personnel files.
- Onboarding: Support the on-boarding process, including orientation scheduling, badge and business card requests, and medical plan input for new hires and employee changes.
- Benefits Data Entry: Enter benefits elections for new employees and follow up with existing employees on changes. Route qualifying event documentation to the HR Administrator.
- Employment Eligibility: Complete I-9 administration, including processing E-Verify for all new hires, and maintain current I-9 document books.
- Leave Documentation: Prepare leave of absence documents and forms for review and issuance by the HR Administrator or HR Generalist.
- Retirement Plan Transactions: Process 401(k) enrollment paperwork, deferral election changes, and beneficiary designation forms. Distribute enrollment packets and required participant notices. Maintain participant files. This position does not interpret plan provisions or approve any participant request.
- Employment Verifications: Complete written employment verifications in accordance with Company policy on information release.
- Workers’ Compensation: Prepare workers’ compensation claim packets when necessary and forward to the HR Administrator or HR Generalist for submission.
- Offboarding: Prepare termination packets and process termination of employee benefits.
- Relocation Expense Reports: Review, process, and log relocation expense reports, and forward to the HR Administrator or HR Generalist for allowability review.
- Reporting Support: Assist in generating reports including the organization chart, headcount, and hires and terminations reports.
- Employee Inquiries: Assist employees who come to Human Resources and monitor inquiries sent to the Human Resources Support Inbox. Respond to routine questions using established materials; escalate anything requiring interpretation.
- Understand Company Policy: Maintain a working understanding of company personnel policies sufficient to direct employees to the correct resource.
- Recruiting Support: Provide scheduling and administrative support to the Talent Acquisition track: coordinate interview calendars and conference rooms, send candidate correspondence from approved templates, arrange candidate travel, and prepare interview packets. This position does not source, screen, or evaluate candidates.
Executive Administrative Support (approximately 50%)
- Calendar and Meeting Coordination: Support the Senior Executive Assistant with calendar management, meeting scheduling, and conference room coordination for executive staff.
- Travel and Expense: Prepare and submit travel arrangements and itineraries, and compile and submit expense reports in accordance with Company and FAR requirements.
- Document Preparation: Prepare, format, and proofread correspondence, presentations, and meeting materials.
- Executive Meeting Logistics: Coordinate logistics and materials for board, customer, and leadership meetings, including visitor hosting and room readiness, in partnership with the HR Coordinator.
- Records and Confidentiality: Maintain executive filing and records with strict confidentiality. Exercise discretion in handling sensitive business, customer, and personnel information.
Shared & Back-Up Duties
- Front Desk Coverage: Serve as the primary back-up for the Human Resources Coordinator & Front Desk, covering the lobby during scheduled rest breaks, meal periods, and planned absences. Maintain current working knowledge of visitor sign-in, badge issuance, Denied Party List screening, and lobby security procedures. Coverage is scheduled in advance so that the employee’s own meal and rest periods are not affected.
- Event Planning Support: Assist with the planning and execution of company events, including the flu shot clinic, employee appreciation events, holiday events, and the company anniversary. Manage invitations and RSVP tracking, order supplies, coordinate room setup, and independently lead smaller departmental events end to end.
- HR Team Support: Support other Human Resources staff and assist on HR projects as assigned.
Requirements:
- Education
- High School Diploma or GED required.
- Associate degree in Human Resources or Business Administration desired.
- Experience
- 1–3 years of experience in a human resources, executive support, or administrative role.
- Experience supporting senior leadership preferred.
- Skills, Tools, and Abilities
- Experience with Microsoft Excel in at least 1 of the following features: pivot tables, INDEX/MATCH, writing formulas, conditional formatting, and charting.
- Experience with Word, PowerPoint, Outlook.
- The ability and willingness to learn new applications.
- Self-motivated, professional, and articulate, with good independent judgment and discretion when handling confidential matters.
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
- Team and goal oriented, with good problem-solving ability and the ability to work with a diverse workforce.
- Other Requirements
- Must be a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident, or otherwise qualify as a U.S. Person as defined by 8 USC 1324b(a)(3).
- On-site presence required at the Torrance, CA facility.
Please Note: Job responsibilities within our organization are dynamic. This may not be a complete list of duties. Other responsibilities and duties may be assigned by your supervisor or upper management at any time.
Pay Range: $26.00-$32.00/hour
Base salary for this position will vary based on your skills, qualifications, and experience.
REQ# 26051
Skills Required
- High school diploma or GED
- 1-3 years of experience in a human resources, executive support, or administrative role
- Experience with Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables, INDEX/MATCH, formulas, conditional formatting, or charting
- Experience with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Ability and willingness to learn new applications
- Self-motivated, professional, articulate, and able to exercise independent judgment and discretion with confidential matters
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
- Team- and goal-oriented with problem-solving ability and ability to work with a diverse workforce
- Must be a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident, or otherwise qualify as a U.S. Person under 8 USC 1324b(a)(3)
- On-site presence at the Torrance, California facility
- Associate degree in Human Resources or Business Administration
- Experience supporting senior leadership
What We Do
Intellisense Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of advanced sensing and display solutions supporting a data continuum from acquisition to visualization. We enhance our hardware with software that adds intelligence to our systems and can turn raw data into useful information for improved decision making and process automation. Intellisense Systems offers both off-the-shelf products and custom development services. These services include research and development, requirements analysis, design, systems integration, prototyping, production, testing, field support, and training. Headquartered in the South Bay area of Los Angeles, we occupy over 100,000 square feet across two facilities. Our manufacturing capabilities include electronics fabrication, unit qualification testing, systems integration, and volume production with full quality assurance. Intellisense Systems is qualified across engineering, accounting, and manufacturing to serve both government and commercial customers.








