HRIS & Operations Lead — Systems & Integrations

Canopy Aerospace & Defense; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Canopy A&D in Irvine, CA, seeks a Manager of Human Resources Operations to own the HRIS, design workflows, and run end-to-end HR processes. You will manage integrations with ATS, background checks, benefits, and IT provisioning, partnering with Payroll to align workflows and controls.

Requirements include 8+ years in HR operations/HRIS, system implementation experience, strong root-cause analysis, and cross-functional collaboration. Bachelor’s degree and strong Excel skills are expected.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years' experience across Human Resources operations, HRIS or Human Resources systems, Human Resources project management, or a comparable mix.
• Demonstrated ownership of an HRIS as the system owner or primary administrator, not solely as an end user or report requester.
• Experience leading at least one full system implementation, migration, or major reconfiguration from requirements through go-live, with accountability for the outcome.
• Demonstrated root cause analysis and problem solving skill: ability to take an ambiguous problem, find the actual cause, and drive a fix to completion.
• Demonstrated experience partnering cross-functionally with Payroll, Finance, Information Technology, and operating teams on shared processes and data.
• Demonstrated process design skill: map current-state process, diagnose where it fails, redesign it, and drive adoption.
• Experience managing integrations between an HRIS and connected systems such as an applicant tracking system, background check vendor, benefits carrier, or identity and provisioning tools.
• Strong project management skill, with the ability to run several workstreams at once across stakeholders in different businesses.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary owner of the HRIS on the Human Resources side, including configuration, workflows, security and permissions, and release management.
• Own the Human Resources side of integrations between the HRIS and connected systems, including the applicant tracking system, background check vendors, benefits carriers, and Information Technology provisioning.
• Partner with Payroll to design the workflows, handoffs, and controls between the Human Resources and Payroll teams.
• Perform root cause analysis on process and system failures: define the problem, determine why it is happening, and partner with the right function to implement and verify the fix.
• Design and build the processes and workflows that run inside Human Resources and those that intersect Human Resources with other functions.
• Partner cross-functionally with Finance, Payroll, Information Technology, Operations, Quality, and site leadership so processes work for everyone who touches them.
• Lead system implementations, module rollouts, and major reconfigurations through go-live.
• Set and maintain data governance standards across operating companies, including field standards, identifiers, and organization structure.
• Run data integrity audits and reconciliations across operating companies.
• Serve as the technical escalation point for system issues the generalist team cannot resolve.
• Manage vendor and implementation partner relationships against defined deliverables.
• Build and maintain Human Resources reporting and dashboards for leadership and Finance.
• Map, diagnose, and redesign Human Resources processes that break, duplicate effort, or differ across operating companies.
• Design employee lifecycle workflows from requisition through onboarding, changes, transfers, leaves, and offboarding.
• Build automation and manager and employee self-service to remove manual work from the Human Resources team.
• Write and maintain the Human Resources process library, including standard operating procedures and job aids.
• Own the operational side of recurring cycles, including open enrollment and performance and compensation cycles.
• Support compliance operations, including audit readiness, required reporting, and records retention.
• Project manage Human Resources initiatives with a plan, named owners, dates, and status reporting to the Director, Human Resources.
• Run change management on new processes and systems, including communication, training, and adoption tracking.
• Train the Human Resources team and people leaders on new processes and systems.
• Assess and integrate people systems and data when the Company acquires.
• Apply artificial intelligence tools to Human Resources workflows where they reduce manual effort, and evaluate new capabilities as they become available.
• Responsible for the creation, maintenance and control of all personally identifiable information or any other information protected by Confidentiality and Privacy Standards and HIPAA.
• Responsible for special projects and assignments as business dictates.

Skills

HRIS ownership

Cross-functional partnership

Data governance

System implementations

Root cause analysis

Excel skills

AI in HR workflows

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

UKG Ready

Job description

Canopy A&D in Irvine, CA, seeks a Manager of Human Resources Operations to own the HRIS, design workflows, and run end-to-end HR processes. You will manage integrations with ATS, background checks, benefits, and IT provisioning, partnering with Payroll to align workflows and controls.

Requirements include 8+ years in HR operations/HRIS, system implementation experience, strong root-cause analysis, and cross-functional collaboration. Bachelor’s degree and strong Excel skills are expected.