HR Assistant/ Administrative Support

Essential responsibilities:

• Nurture a positive working environment.

• Manage front desk operations — answer phones, direct calls, and handle incoming/outgoing mail.

• Assist in planning, organizing, and implementing various employee relations programs.

• Greet and assist visitors, employees, and job applicants in a professional and friendly manner.

• Attends and participates in employee disciplinary meetings, terminations, and investigations.

• Updates payroll records by entering changes in exemptions, insurance coverage, savings deductions, job title and department/division transfers.

• Assist with employee benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and PTO.

• Manage time clocks such as setting up new employees, editing time punches and fixing timecard errors.

• Resolves payroll discrepancies by collecting and analyzing information.

• Assisting in the overall recruitment process such as, posting ads, reviewing resumes, setting up interviews, and onboarding process

• Manage and update physical and digital employee files.

• Maintain employee confidence and protect payroll operations by keeping information confidential.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Help with various tasks as requested.

• Support of and involvement in company, department, and/or safety policies, procedures, programs and activities.

• Other duties as assigned.

Education Requirements:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one-year related customer service experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Competencies/skill Qualifications:

• Proficient with windows.

• Great at problem solving and mathematical skills.

• Great communicator either by phone or e-mail to resolve problems.

• Act as a reliable and supportive team member.

• Organizational skills

• Team oriented.

• Reliable.

• Honest.

• People skills and communications skills

• Ability to keep confidential information.

• Fluent in Spanish