Human Relations Specialist

DCS Corp; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

DCS Corp is seeking an Human Relations Specialist – Onboarding and Employee Engagement in Houston to drive onboarding, employee experience, and engagement initiatives within a government-focused, employee-owned organization.

The role emphasizes data-driven staffing planning, collaboration across leaders, and delivering documentation and communications describing strategy and implementation recommendations.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a secret clearance.
• Education and experience requirements: High School Diploma/GED +10 yrs; Associate +4 yrs; Bachelor +2 yrs; Master +1 yr.
• Former Military experience.
• Excellent attention to detail to verify, proofread, and edit documents to meet requirements.
• Strong initiative and ability to work independently in a matrix environment.
• Ability to own issues and solve problems independently.
• Strong relationship skills and ability to work across multiple levels.
• Experience advising Government management on staffing plans, PDs, and related staffing matters.
• Experience coordinating with College Outreach programs to diversify the workforce.
• Experience advising on Army Acquisition Workforce programs and Acquisition Certification requirements.
• Experience compiling data for long-term strategic human capital planning.

Responsibilities

• Execute internal HR processes to support onboarding and employee engagement.
• Review organizational requirements and gather data on turnover, restructuring, and staffing needs.
• Maintain statistical data and provide trend reports on workforce positions.
• Gather stakeholder inputs and communicate the organization's strategy and recommendations.
• Coordinate with Government leads on staffing plans and position descriptions, and related management options.

Skills

U.S. Citizenship

Secret clearance

Attention to detail

Independent work in matrix environment

Cross-level communication

Staffing and workforce planning

Military experience

Relationship building

Government staffing advice

College outreach collaboration

Acquisition workforce knowledge

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Associate degree

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

BA or BS degree (preferred)

Job description

At DCS, people come first. As an employee‑owned company, every person contributes to and shares in our success. We take pride in being a place where innovators, problem‑solvers, and builders of the future can thrive. If you’re looking for a role where your voice is heard, your ideas matter, and your work directly supports mission‑critical decisions, you’ll feel right at home here.

Essential Job Functions:

The Human Relations Specialist – Onboarding and Employee Engagement will be tasked with Human Capital responsibilities, which ensure the seamless and timely execution of internal HR process flows that result in the successful implementation of initiatives that reinforce and contribute to a strong, resilient, and high‑performing organizational culture and positive employee experience.

Responsible for reviewing organizational requirements and gather data relating to such factors as turnover, restructuring initiatives, mission, and technology to identify staffing trends, anticipated vacancies, retention deficiencies, and other changes.

Maintaining statistical data, monitor, and provides updates on trends and potential new program and/or problem areas that need attention. Provide statistical data to the team related to civilian acquisition workforce positions and monitor and provide regular and recurring reports on continued program progress.

Gathering stakeholder inputs, plan activities among the organization's leaders and personnel to develop a common understanding and deliver documentation and communication describing the organization's strategy and recommendations on implementation.

Required Skills:

Due to the sensitivity of customer related requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required.

Must be able to obtain and maintain a secret clearance.

High School Diploma/GED plus 10 years of experience, an associate's degree plus 4 years of experience, a bachelor's degree plus 2 years of experience or a master's degree plus 1 year of experience.

Former Military experience.

Ability to use strict attention to detail to verify, proofread, and edit documents that are created by others to ensure compliance with document requirements.

Strong initiative and ability to work independently to accomplish goals in a matrix environment.

Ability to take ownership of issues and solve problems independently.

Strong relationship skills and demonstrated ability to work across multiple levels of employees and teams.

Experience advising Government management in achieving sound staffing plans and position classification structures; preparation of position descriptions (PDs); and staffing matters, such as management options and alternatives regarding recruitment, reorganizations, realignments and reshape/downsizing actions.

Experience coordinating with College Outreach programs, which focuses on efforts to attract applicants in a wide variety of fields to increase the diversity of the workforce primarily through recruitment at colleges and universities.

Experience investigating and advising management on Army Acquisition Workforce programs and issues, to include the Acquisition Positions List (APL) and Acquisition Certification Requirements.

Experience compiling data for evaluation of overall strategic human capital planning needs for a 5 or more-year period.

Knowledge of uploading work products, such as documents, reports, analyses, briefings, etc., to the organizations electronic database sites as directed by Government leads.

Desired Skills:

BA or BS degree, a plus.