Job Posting: Senior Human Resources Generalist
Experience The EMBREY Way by joining our dynamic Human Resources Team as a Senior Human Resources Generalist.
As the Senior Human Resources Generalist, you will serve as a strategic advisor and trusted partner to business leaders, employees, and HR colleagues, providing expertise in employee relations, performance management, leave administration, accommodations, workplace investigations, and employment law compliance. This is a senior-level individual contributor role responsible for leading complex employee relations matters, coaching leaders through performance management challenges, supporting leave and accommodation processes, and mitigating organizational risk while fostering a positive employee experience.
Responsibilities
Employee Relations
- Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders on employee relations matters, organizational effectiveness, performance concerns, and employment-related risk.
- Manage a high volume of complex employee relations cases across multiple states and business functions.
- Conduct thorough, objective, and timely investigations involving employee complaints, policy violations, misconduct, harassment, discrimination, retaliation, attendance issues, and workplace conflicts.
- Assess risk and recommend appropriate solutions that balance business objectives, employee experience, and legal compliance.
- Partner with managers to resolve employee relations concerns and create positive workplace outcomes.
- Provide guidance regarding disciplinary actions, corrective action, employee conduct issues, and involuntary separations.
- Ensure consistent interpretation and application of company policies and employment practices.
- Partner closely with Legal and Human Resources leadership on sensitive employee matters, investigations, and employment decisions.
- Analyze employee relations trends and recommend proactive solutions to improve engagement, retention, and workplace culture.
- Maintain accurate, thorough, and legally defensible documentation related to investigations and employee relations matters.
Performance Management & Leadership Support
- Serve as a strategic advisor to leaders on performance management practices and employee development strategies.
- Coach managers through performance-related concerns, including goal setting, performance feedback, documentation, performance improvement plans (PIPs), and corrective action processes.
- Provide guidance and recommendations regarding employee performance issues, productivity concerns, behavioral challenges, and conduct-related matters.
- Review performance-related documentation to ensure consistency, fairness, and compliance with company policies and employment laws.
- Partner with leaders and HR colleagues to address underperformance and facilitate appropriate performance management outcomes.
- Support managers in navigating difficult employee conversations and delivering constructive feedback.
- Assess potential risks associated with performance-related employment decisions and recommend appropriate courses of action.
- Promote leadership accountability and strengthen manager effectiveness through proactive consultation and coaching.
Leave Administration & Accommodations
- Support and oversee leave of absence processes, including FMLA, ADA, state and local leave programs, military leave, personal leave, and company-sponsored leave programs.
- Serve as a subject matter expert on leave administration, reasonable accommodations, and return-to-work practices.
- Partner with employees, managers, Benefits, and third-party administrators to ensure effective and compliant leave management.
- Facilitate the interactive process and provide guidance regarding workplace accommodations.
- Advise leaders on leave-related employee relations matters, attendance concerns, and accommodation requests.
- Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local leave and disability regulations.
- Monitor leave trends and identify opportunities to improve employee experience and operational effectiveness.
- Additional duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Minimum of 8 years of progressive Human Resources experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of significant Employee Relations experience, including workplace investigations.
- Minimum of 3 years of leave administration and accommodation management experience.
- Demonstrated experience supporting organizations with 500+ employees.
- Experience supporting geographically dispersed and multi-state operations.
- Experience supporting large hourly, field-based, operational, or frontline employee populations.
- Strong working knowledge of multi-state employment laws, FMLA, ADA and reasonable accommodations, FLSA, Title VII, wage and hour regulations, state and local employment laws and leave requirements.
- Experience partnering directly with employment counsel on complex employee matters.
- Experience supporting organizational growth and change initiatives.
- Proven ability to independently manage complex and sensitive employment matters.
- Strong conflict resolution, consulting, influencing, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written communication, investigation, and documentation skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
- SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, or SPHR certification preferred.
- Experience supporting real estate development or construction industries preferred.
- Experience working with third-party leave administrators preferred.
Required Testing
- Criminal Background Check, Credit Check, Non-DOT Testing, MVR
Position Type
- Salary
- Full-time
- In Office
- Competitive pay & benefits (including healthcare and 401k)
Position Location
- EMBREY Headquarters in San Antonio, TX
Choose EMBREY:
Join an industry-leading team where we believe our people are our most important investment. That’s why we’re committed to fostering a strong, value-driven culture through a long-term strategic focus on our team. We were recently recognized as one of the Best Places to Work by the San Antonio Business Journal, a reflection of the environment we’ve built together. By joining our team, you'll become part of an empowering workplace that values dedication, encourages growth, and celebrates teamwork.
Enjoy the perks of a salaried/exempt position with competitive pay and bonus. We have an extensive benefits package, including healthcare (medical, vision, dental), wellness activities, short and long-term disability, life and AD&D, parental leave, PTO (Paid Time Off), and a 401(k) match.
Who We Are:
San Antonio-based EMBREY is a vertically integrated real estate investment company that develops, builds, acquires, owns, and manages multifamily communities and commercial assets in select markets throughout the United States. With over 50 years in business, more than 6,000 units under construction, and nearly 14,400 units under management, EMBREY does more than build places to work and live. We design the experience, and together as ONE EMBREY, we deliver exceptional results. www.embrey.com
Our Values:
Do the Right Thing - Details Matter - Rise to the Challenge - Own it
EMBREY is an equal-opportunity employer and values diversity and inclusion in our workforce. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected status. Our commitment is to provide a fair and inclusive hiring process. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business needs.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Minimum of 8 years of progressive Human Resources experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of significant Employee Relations experience, including workplace investigations.
- Minimum of 3 years of leave administration and accommodation management experience.
- Experience supporting organizations with 500 or more employees.
- Experience supporting geographically dispersed and multi-state operations.
- Experience supporting large hourly, field-based, operational, or frontline employee populations.
- Strong knowledge of multi-state employment laws, FMLA, ADA, reasonable accommodations, FLSA, Title VII, wage and hour regulations, and state and local leave requirements.
- Experience partnering directly with employment counsel on complex employee matters.
- Experience supporting organizational growth and change initiatives.
- Ability to independently manage complex and sensitive employment matters.
- Strong conflict resolution, consulting, influencing, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written communication, investigation, and documentation skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
- SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, or SPHR certification.
- Experience supporting real estate development or construction industries.
- Experience working with third-party leave administrators.
What We Do
San Antonio-based EMBREY is a vertically integrated real estate investment company that develops, builds, acquires, owns and manages multifamily communities and commercial assets in select markets throughout the United States. EMBREY celebrates over 50 years in business with over 50,000 multifamily units and six million square feet of commercial property completed in its history. As a leading developer in the multifamily sector, the company has more than 6,000 units under construction or in development. Our Values: Do the Right Thing - Details Matter - Rise to the Challenge - Own it
