HR Support Specialist
Description
OVERVIEW:
We’re looking for a motivated, detail-oriented HR professional to join our team as an HR Support Specialist. This role supports the Sr. Director of HR for a 300-person company and offers hands-on experience across all areas of HR. You’ll oversee key processes that impact the employee experience, ensure compliance with employment requirements, and gain exposure to employment practices in the U.S., Australia, and the U.K.
This role is ideal for someone in the early stages of their HR career who’s ready to take on meaningful responsibility and grow into an independent HR role. You’ll be trusted to make sound decisions within established guidelines and develop judgment in a variety of HR disciplines.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:
- Prepare and process offer letters, compensation statements, and employee separation forms.
- Track processes to ensure timely completion and accuracy of all required documentation.
- Maintain and audit employee files to ensure compliance with legal and company standards.
- Facilitate employee change processes such as hires, promotions, transfers, and terminations.
- Respond to unemployment claims and employment verification requests.
- Serve as liaison for workers’ compensation, ensuring timely and accurate documentation and filing.
- Facilitate leave of absence paperwork with our carrier and support employees throughout the process.
- Track compliance, training, and performance assessment participation.
- Track separation data for insights and reporting.
- Exercise sound judgment while learning to apply company policies and employment laws to individual situations.
- Identify process improvements and recommend solutions to enhance HR efficiency and effectiveness.
- Manage competing priorities and make independent decisions on day-to-day HR matters within established guidelines.
- Support the Sr. Director of HR on special projects and process improvements as the HR function evolves.
WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING TO THE TABLE:
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, or a related field.
- 0-2 years of HR or related work experience preferred; internships or academic HR coursework are a plus but not required.
- Strong attention to detail, accuracy, and follow-through.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with high emotional intelligence (EQ).
- Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion.
- Resourceful and proactive mindset - comfortable finding answers and solving problems when information is limited.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and exercise discretion in decision-making.
- Curiosity and drive to develop into a well-rounded HR professional who contributes strategically over time.
COMPENSATION: $60,000-$65,000 / per year
BENEFITS:
Spectra provides a casual work environment and a compensation structure that rewards contribution and hard work. Our comprehensive benefits package includes:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401K with matching
- Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid vacation, holidays, and sick time
- Educational reimbursement
- Hybrid work option, 3-4 days a week in office
WHY SPECTRA?
Located in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Boulder, Colorado, Spectra is an entrepreneurial, private company with more than 40 years of proven success preserving, protecting, and defending the world’s data. Spectra offers a challenging, flexible, and creative work environment. Our culture is one that drives personal opportunity and advancement and rewards high performance while maintaining a high-quality work-life balance. Work out on your own or with our trainer at one of the on-campus gyms; enjoy a people-first work culture and grow in your career with peers second to none.
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.
Spectra Logic is committed to the practice and policies of equal employment opportunities in the recruitment, employment, and promotion of all associates without regard to age 40 and over, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, status as a protected veteran, national origin, or any other applicable status protected by state or local law.
***Spectra Logic is committed to the practice and policies of equal employment opportunities in the recruitment, employment and promotion of all associates without regard to age 40 and over, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, status as protected veteran, national origin, or any other applicable status protected by state or local law.