The City of Redmond is a thriving, culturally diverse community and home to over 80,000 residents. Redmond is the hub to an array of commerce and industry ranging from technology, aerospace and gaming to biomedical and innovation start-ups. In this role, you will represent the city, and our values of service, integrity, accountability, belonging and stewardship.
The Human Resources Department is seeking an experienced HR Generalist to join our team! This role is critical to HR operations as is has direct focus on day-to-day Employee Life Cycle activities across Compliance, Performance Management, Employee Labor Relations and Policy. You will have a chance to work in a quick-paced, yet collaborative and a customer-service orientated culture that is focused on supporting employees in the following city departments: Fire, Police, Finance, and Planning. With a direct focus on Public Safety (Fire/Police) this role will serve as the Civil Service Chief Examiner. This position is full-time, FLSA non-exempt, with a general schedule of Monday through Friday.
About You
- You are agile, have a solid understanding of multiple HR disciplines and are people oriented. You thrive working with employees and leaders on the employee experience and can build trust with employees at all levels. You naturally think ahead and can anticipate future needs, spot potential issues, and troubleshoot or plan for pre-emptive solutions.
- An effective influencer and a confident communicator. Your human resources expertise will be in constant demand by your customers to improve employee engagement. But you also realize there is much to learn from the employees and departments as it relates to guiding them on best practices by remaining open-minded and involving others. You approach each experience with warmth and welcome the chance to give help and support when needed.
- A results-oriented, innovative problem-solver with a love for rising to the challenge. This position centers around researching, analyzing, and improving the employee experience. You bring a great balance of strong technical abilities, the ability to follow-through on initiatives, and skills to partner with your departments on shared goals.
- Skilled with handling multiple priorities and prefer the flexibility to figure out your own approach to meet set deadlines. Your natural drive to set the pace of your activities and tasks to meet your goals, along with your years of HR experience, means we know we can trust you to seek the best outcome without needing to tell you exactly how to do it.
About The Job
As the HR Generalist, you will serve as first point of contact for all customers (customer intake) and triage all other HR inquiries outside of the following main HR functional areas:
- Employee Lifecycle: Lead On/Off boarding duties, guide and support employee development and retention efforts.
- Employee and Labor Relations: Serve as first point of contact for employee inquiries and concerns. Support conflict resolution and grievance handling. Ensure fair and consistent application of HR policies. Participate in Labor meetings as needed.
- Compliance and Policy: Provide general HR guidance to employees and supervisors. Ensure compliance with labor laws and internal HR policies. Assist with policy creation, updates and communication.
- Performance Management: Coordinate performance review processes. Track and document performance issues. Support employees at all levels with development plans. Help identify training needs and recommend solutions.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Public Administration, Business, Finance, or related field; and
- Three (3) or more years of directly related experience
- Any combination equivalent of education and experience that would provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities.
Please review the Human Resources Analyst job description for more information about the knowledge, skills, abilities, working conditions, and physical requirements.
Selection Process
The City is accepting applications from internal and external applicants. Please include a resume with your application. Please be sure to list or upload copies of all relevant training and certifications on your application.
The City may review existing application pools to fill this position or use this pool to fill future vacancies.
Our employees earn competitive wages and enjoy an exceptional benefits package that includes:
- MEDICAL INSURANCE - Choice of two plans for employees and their eligible dependents: Premera or Kaiser Permanente. All employee healthcare premiums paid for by the City of Redmond.
- PRESCRIPTION DRUG INSURANCE - Included with each medical plan
- DENTAL INSURANCE - For employees and their eligible dependents
- VISION INSURANCE - For employees and their eligible dependents
- OTHER INSURANCE - Life, accidental death & dismemberment insurance, short and long-term disability, optional employee-paid voluntary life insurance
- FLEXIBLE SPENDING ACCOUNTS - For tax savings on healthcare and dependent care expenses
- PAID VACATION & HOLIDAYS – with (13) paid holidays per year
- EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (EAP)
- RETIREMENT PLANS - Department of Retirement Systems (DRS) plus additional options that include Municipal Employees Benefit Trust (Social Security replacement plan) and MetLife 457 Plan
- Annual COLA adjustments
- Annual merit increases of up to 5%
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