Senior HR Generalist

Bucks County Electric Works; Southampton Township (PA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Dental Insurance

Paid Holidays

SIMPLE retirement account

Job summary

Bucks County Electric Works is seeking a Senior HR Generalist to manage daily HR operations and execute programs across the employee lifecycle. You will advise leaders on HR strategy, support payroll accuracy, onboarding, benefits, and policy compliance in a dynamic environment.

The role requires strong interpersonal skills, data-driven decision making, and ability to coach managers at all levels. Relocation is not offered; hybrid or onsite options may apply.

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in HR or related field with 5+ years HR experience.
• Experience in recruitment, onboarding, benefits coordination and employee relations.
• Familiarity with OFCCP/AAP/EEOC compliance is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Communicate core values and build trust across teams.
• Advise on HR strategies supporting culture and business needs.
• Support weekly payroll processing and payroll analytics.
• Oversee onboarding, new hire communications, and exits.
• Coordinate benefits open enrollment and employee messaging.
• Manage recruiting postings across locations and HR records.
• Stay current with federal/state laws and HR policy changes.
• Ensure posters and forms are up to date; assist managers with HR issues.
• Partner with external HR consultants as needed; drive HR programs.

Skills

HR policy interpretation

Employee relations

Payroll analytics

Onboarding & offboarding

Data analysis

Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR or related field

High School diploma with 15 years HR experience

Tools

PrimePoint payroll software

HRIS software

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Role Summary / Purpose The Senior HR Generalist is responsible for the day-to-day administration and execution of the organization's human resources programs, policies, and processes. This role supports the full employee lifecycle, including recruitment, onboarding, employee records administration, benefits coordination, performance management processes, policy administration, employee relations support, compliance activities, and offboarding. The Senior HR Generalist serves as a primary resource for employees and managers regarding HR policies, procedures, and employment-related matters, ensuring consistent application of company practices and compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Through the effective administration of HR programs and processes, the position helps support a positive employee experience, organizational effectiveness, and business operations.

Essential Responsibilities

• Positively communicate and demonstrate the company?s Core Values by developing trust and respect among peers and associates, building strong teams and partnerships, and driving results.
• Provide guidance and input regarding HR strategies that support the vision, culture, and business needs of the organization.
• Contributes to and supports the weekly payroll processing provided by the finance team and analyzing payroll data for compliance reporting and activities. Maintain department records and reports. Ability to monitor HR and Payroll analytics and communicate with management.
• Onboarding new employees and maintaining the electronic onboarding process.
• Timely exit process.
• Benefits ? open enrollment, new hire enrollments, and life events. Assist with open enrollment roll-out and employee messaging, as well as tracking participation throughout the process and ensuring updates are communicated properly to the carriers
• Posting and maintaining requisitions for recruiting across all locations.
• Maintain current knowledge of applicable federal and state laws and educate managers on new developments when necessary.
• Ensure employee posters, notices, and forms are current.
• Facilitate management and employee understanding of payroll, benefit, and recruitment procedures.
• Provide support to managers for all employee related issues. Facilitate and manage employee relations concerns.
• Participate in developing departmental goals and objectives. In partnership with business leaders, lead and drive the execution of all HR programs. Build trusting consultative relationships with associates and leaders
• Collaboration and coordination with external HR Consultants as needed for programs and services.
• Leverage Excel and data analysis to identify issues within the business and develop plans to address and minimize disruption.
• Special projects as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor?s degree and 5+ years Human Resources experience or High School diploma with 15 years of progressive Human Resources experience.
• 3+ years of the required experience must include recruitment activities and OFCCP/ AAP/EEOC compliance experience.
• 3+ years of the required experience must include ownership of HR practices (ex: payroll, recruitment). Basic experience in payroll & benefits administration.
• Prior experience coaching leaders at various levels. Good interpersonal skills including the ability to interface with staff at all levels.
• Comfortable in PrimePoint payroll software or similar
• 1 year experience using HRIS software
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Desired Characteristics

• Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality. Ability to energize and lead in complex, matrix, goal-driven organizations.
• Strong sense of personal accountability.
• Ability to communicate effectively in both written and verbally. Excellent collaboration, influencing, project management, organizational and change agent skills.
• Ability to identify areas of opportunity for improvement and present to Executive Management.

Excellent time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines in these areas for others. Ability to prioritize and multi-task to meet deadlines.

• Capable of handling multiple issues and/or projects simultaneously and executing to completion. Able to function in a complex, agile, fast-moving, cross-functional workplace and adapt to the changing environment.
• Developed (oral and written) communication and diplomacy skill set with the ability to influence others by presenting sound and logical arguments tailored to the audience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to assess situations and make judgments based on practice or previous experience.

Benefits

Because our people are our greatest assets, we also offer competitive benefits that include:

• Health and Dental Insurance after 90-day period
• Paid Holidays
• SIMPLE retirement account
• Is relocation for this position offered: No