Employee Relations Coordinator(HR)(Construction)

LocationBastrop, Louisiana, United States

TypeOnsite

We are seeking a Bilingual Human Resources (HR) Employee Relations Specialist to join the team in Rayville, Louisiana.

In this role you will act as the bridge between field employees and management on a large construction project, helping to resolve employee concerns, drive retention initiatives, and support a positive site culture. This is an exciting opportunity to bring your employee relations experience and bilingual (English/Spanish) fluency to a hands on, high visibility environment.

What You’ll Do as the Bilingual HR Employee Relations Specialist:

Serve as the primary liaison for employees and supervisors on site, investigating complaints, coaching, and facilitating conflict resolution.
Walk the job site regularly to engage with employees, answer questions, assess the work environment, and escalate issues as needed.
Advise supervisors on the application of labor laws, company policies and procedures, and ensure compliance throughout the site environment.
Facilitate new hire orientation, annual performance review process (in collaboration with corporate HR), training for staff and supervisors, and exit interviews.
Educate employees year round (and during open enrollment) on benefits and other HR related programs.
Propose and implement retention strategies, improvements to the employee experience, and enhancements to HR processes as they apply in the field.

Must Haves as the HR Employee Relations Specialist:

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
Minimum of 2 years of relevant employee relations or HR experience, preferably in construction or engineering environments.
Fluency in both English and Spanish.
Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Teams, Outlook and comfort with digital workflows.
Excellent oral and written communication skills, strong organizational skills, high attention to detail, ability to exercise sound judgment and maintain confidentiality.
Comfortable working in a fast paced environment, able to interface with field staff, supervisors, and corporate HR.

Nice to Haves as the Bilingual HR Employee Relations Specialist:

Prior experience in a construction, engineering or field operations HR role.
Exposure to union or multi craft workforce environments.
Experience leading or facilitating HR training programs (e.g., performance reviews, HR policy roll out).
Demonstrated track record in retention strategy or employee engagement programs in a field workforce context.

Our Client Offers:

Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package (medical, dental, vision, life, disability).
Paid time off and tuition reimbursement.
401(k) retirement plan.
Opportunity to work with a respected national firm, on meaningful projects, in a bilingual employee relations capacity with a visible impact.
A chance to build and influence site HR practices and experience in a supportive yet challenging field environment.

Trueline and its clients are unabashed equal opportunity employers committed to a diverse workforce. We welcome smart and ambitious applicants and recruit, refer, hire, place, and promote without regard to race, color, gender, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state law

Life at Trueline

Who are we? As an independent, full-service marketing and consulting business based in Portland, Maine, we provide strategy, content and design for businesses, nonprofits and individuals in Maine and throughout the world. What do we do?

Everything we do revolves around ROI–improving your bottom line. Through a rock-solid communication and branding strategy, we show you how to support and engage your employees, build your workforce, find new clients and support existing business.

Here’s a snapshot of our services: Strategy: Branding and rebranding; mission statement; search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine results page (SERP); hiring and retention; fundraising; communicating with board members; personal branding (for executives); events and PR; advertising campaigns; product launches; social media campaigns and management.

Design: Websites; logos; promotional material (digital and print); event guides; employee photos; drone video footage; custom magazines; advertisements.

Content: Website text; speeches and keynotes; promotional text; employee bios; custom articles; social media posts; newsletters and internal emails; corporate reports.

Custom Publishing: Vanguard, Equity, Toggle, Blueprint, Vision, Terra Firma

What’s our mission? We want to help you solve real challenges–like growing your business, hiring and retaining employees, fundraising and keeping existing business. Our mission is to do this with honesty and integrity. Authenticity–it’s a good look on you.

Why do we do this? We want to reimagine marketing. We want it to be less about the perfect image, and more about using good communication and branding as a way to engage with your employees and clients in successful and lasting relationships.

Ultimately, we believe this approach will create a world where people come before profit, where the environment is respected and given back to, and where good business is synonymous with the best intentions.

Thrive Here & What We Value

Fully Remote/Hybrid/InOffice Options

Generous Vacation, Sick, and Holiday Pay

Individually Tailored Career Trajectories and Growth Opportunities

A Culture of Continuous Learning