Your Role
As an HR Generalist, you will play a key role in supporting our employees and maintaining a positive, engaging workplace culture. You will be responsible for onboarding new hires, managing HR communications, organizing employee events, and contributing to various HR functions that enhance the overall employee experience.
What You Will Do
Onboarding:
Orientation: Facilitate new employee orientations, ensuring that employees are introduced to company culture, policies, and procedures.
Documentation: Assist new hires by completing required paperwork, including forms, insurance forms, and enrollment benefits.
Training: Collaborate with departments to identify training needs for new employees and assist in the development and delivery of onboarding training programs.
Mentoring: Provide guidance and support to new hires during their initial weeks to help them acclimate to the organization.
HR Generalist:
Employee Relations: Respond to general human resource-related inquiries and provide personnel policy and procedure guidance to employees and management.
Policy Enforcement: Ensure that company policies and procedures are consistently applied and followed.
Record Keeping: Maintain accurate and up-to-date employee records, including personnel files and HR databases.
Compliance: Stay current with employment laws and regulations and ensure that the organization complies.
HR Communications: Develop and distribute internal HR communications, including newsletters, announcements, and policy updates, to keep employees informed and engaged.
Employee Engagement: Plan and coordinate employee events such as birthdays, celebrations, and other culture-building activities.
HR Projects: Participate in various HR projects and initiatives to improve HR processes and enhance employee experience.
Your Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in human resources or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience as an HR Generalist.
- Fully bilingual (English/Spanish).
- Experience working in a corporate environment.
- In-depth knowledge of Mexican labor laws, HR regulations, and best practices.
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information appropriately.
- Self-directed, detail-oriented problem solver with the ability to produce timely, high-quality deliverables.
- Exceptional interpersonal and client service skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrable strategic thinking, influencing, and decision-making skills.
- Workday experience is strongly preferred.
- Advanced in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Life at Gensler
At Gensler, we are as committed to enjoying life as we are to delivering best-in-class design. From curated art exhibits to internal design competitions to “Well-being Week,” our offices reflect our people’s diverse interests.
We encourage every person at Gensler to lead a healthy and balanced life. Our comprehensive benefits include subsidized health and life insurance, annual bonus, LinkedIn learning, holiday observance, and employee assistance programs.
As part of the firm’s commitment to licensure and professional development, Gensler offers reimbursement for certain professional licenses and associated renewals and exam fees. In addition, we reimburse tuition for certain eligible programs or classes. We view our professional development programs as strategic investments in our future.
What We Do
Gensler is a global architecture, design, and planning firm with 53 locations and more than 6,000+ professionals networked across the Americas, Europe, Greater China, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. Founded in 1965, the firm works globally with more than 4,000 clients across more than 33 practice areas spanning the work, lifestyle, community, and health sectors. Everything we do is guided by our mission: To create a better world through the power of design. We believe the power of design can spark positive change and create a future that promotes equity, resilience, and wellbeing for everyone. Gensler was named one of Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work in 2020, 2019, 2017 and 2016, and our award-winning culture has been recognized by Fast Company as one of the 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators in 2021. Our people-first philosophy is centered on the core ideas of diversity empowerment, impact, community, respect, and growth. You can learn more about our commitment to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace at https://www.gensler.com/careers#diversity.
