Employee Experience Partner

Kiewit Corporation; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental & vision plans

Retirement plans

Life insurance

Paid time off

Employee assistance programs

Job summary

Kiewit Corporation is seeking HR professionals for an Employee Experience role focused on onboarding, offboarding, and employee experience programs. This Tier 2 position emphasizes accurate HR support in a high-volume shared services environment and involves partnering with managers, HRBPs, and teams to deliver consistent, high-quality experiences.

The role blends human connection with AI-assisted insights and technology to optimize processes from pre-start through separation.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in HR, employee experience, or related field.
• Strong knowledge of onboarding, transitions, and offboarding processes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; relationship-building skills.
• Curiosity and adaptability with evolving tools and technologies.
• Demonstrated initiative and ethics.

Responsibilities

• Lead new hires through onboarding from pre-start to first week; ensure welcoming and prepared experience.
• Coordinate with hiring managers, HRBPs, and HR teams to prepare start readiness and logistics.
• Manage offboarding activities, track completion, and route exceptions to the appropriate owner.
• Apply listening tools and data insights to improve the employee experience.
• Collaborate across HR functions to maintain high-quality delivery.
• Leverage AI-enhanced insights to personalize experiences and streamline delivery.

Skills

HR experience

Onboarding

Offboarding

Customer service

Data insights

AI tools

Tools

HRIS systems

Job description

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Kiewit is seeking motivated HR professionals to join our Employee Experience team — a high-impact group dedicated to delivering accurate, responsive HR support across assigned employee lifecycle services, with a primary focus on onboarding, offboarding, and employee experience programs. In a high-volume shared services environment, the partner serves as a trusted point of contact for employees, new hires, managers, and HR Business Partners (HRBPs), helping them navigate processes from pre-start through separation.

This is a Tier 2 role that applies sound judgement and HR process knowledge to understand requests, explain requirements and context, resolve issues within established policies and service guidance, and coordinate or elevate matters that require another team’s expertise or decision. The partner blends human connection with the latest HR technology, including AI-assisted insights, to create seamless, personalized experiences.

At Kiewit, the scale of our operations is huge. Our construction and engineering projects span across the United States, Canada and Mexico, improving and connecting communities with every initiative. We depend on our high-performing operations support professionals — they’re the glue that holds multiple areas of the business together and the catalysts that make things happen. We hire only the most driven people and we offer them diverse career opportunities, strong leadership and mentorship, rewarding, collaborative work, and responsibility they won’t find just anywhere. We’re always pushing new limits. You can too.

District Overview

HR Operations is an integral partner and service provider at Kiewit. In recent years, we have gone from decentralized HR groups to a unified, shared service team, with various HR Centers of Excellence. Our vision is to be a best-in-class international HR organization

Location

This position is based out of Omaha, NE or Lenexa, KS. This is a shared service center in a professional office setting and reqiures in-office attendance Monday-Friday

Responsibilities

• Lead new hires through onboarding, from pre-start preparation through their first days, ensuring they feel welcomed, prepared, and inspired and continue ensuring their onboarding success through their first week of employment.
• Partner with hiring managers, HRBPs, and HR teams to clarify responsibilities, address process barriers, and support readiness for the employee’s start, including relevant logistics and required follow-up.
• Coordinate offboarding activities in a professional and supportive manner, helping managers and employees understand required steps, tracking completion, and routing exceptions to the appropriate owner.
• Apply listening tools, feedback loops, and data insights to improve the employee experience.
• Work across HR functions to ensure consistent, high-quality delivery.
• Use technology and AI-enhanced insights to personalize experiences and streamline delivery.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in HR, employee experience, or a related field.
• Working knowledge of HR processes, particularly onboarding, employee transitions, and offboarding; ability to learn and apply related policies, procedures, and service guidance.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills paired with relationship-building skills.
• Curiosity, adaptability, and comfort with evolving tools and technologies.
• Highly motivated, with a demonstrated passion for excellence and taking initiative
• Strong work ethic, willing to do what it takes to get the job done right the first time
• Demonstrated commitment to ethics and integrity
• Team player with the ability to work independently to meet deadlines, goals and objectives
• Strong organization, time management, and attention to detail #LI-AK1

Other Requirements:

• Work productively and meet deadlines timely
• Communicate and interact effectively and professionally with supervisors, employees, and others individually or in a team environment.
• Perform work safely and effectively. Understand and follow oral and written instructions, including warning signs, equipment use, and other policies.
• Work overtime and weekends as required.
• May work at various different locations and conditions may vary.

We offer our fulltime staff employees a comprehensive benefits package that’s among the best in our industry, including top-tier medical, dental and vision plans covering eligible employees and dependents, voluntary wellness and employee assistance programs, life insurance, disability, retirement plans with matching, and generous paid time off.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

There’s no limit to what you’ll do at Kiewit. Whether you’re building or supporting projects that provide communities with dependable energy, safe transportation, clean water, or access to health care, the work you do will positively impact people’s lives for generations to come.

Here you’ll have endless opportunities to expand your expertise through on-the-job experience and internal and external training and development opportunities.

We offer our full-time staff employees a comprehensive benefits package that’s among the best in our industry.From top-tier health care programs to employee assistance programs and retirement planning, we aim to provide you with the tools you need to be successful in the areas of life that matter most to you.

Kiewit is an equal-opportunity employer, and we believe a diverse workforce is vital to the success of our business. We continue our efforts to attract, develop and retain employees from all backgrounds who are passionate about our industry.

We are committed to veteran and military hiring and will consider relevant military experience as equivalent to qualification requirements.