Cssmerge HR Generalist at Atoms supporting Transport & Mining teams with employee relations, manager coaching, and HR operations. Responsible for building people foundation for fast-scaling businesses.
Responsibilities
As the first HR Generalist on the Transport & Mining HR team, you'll work directly with the Head of HR for Transport & Mining to build the people foundation for two fast-scaling businesses. This role is designed for someone with 3-5 years of HR experience who wants to grow in employee relations, manager coaching, data-driven HR, and operational excellence.
You'll support employees and managers across a diverse workforce: engineers and operations teams in San Francisco, manufacturing technicians, and hourly field teams at customer sites in the US and internationally. You'll own day-to-day HR operations, keep our people data accurate, ensure compliance, and help deliver the people programs that let these teams scale. Your job is to help us move from reactive to proactive while the organization is still being built.
The ideal candidate brings a service mindset, exceptional attention to detail, and sound judgment in a fast-paced environment. You'll be equally comfortable supporting an engineer in HQ and a technician on a shift schedule.
Employee Relations & Manager Coaching
Serve as the first point of contact for employee and manager questions across Transport & Mining, providing guidance on HR policies, benefits, leaves, and local requirements.
Handle employee relations intake, documentation, resolution tracking, and trend spotting, and partner with Employee Relations on investigations and complex cases.
Coach managers on performance, conduct, and attendance issues, including coaching conversations, documentation, and performance improvement plans.
Coach new and first-time managers on everyday people practices, and help build simple resources they can use on their own.
HR Operations & Compliance
Own onboarding and offboarding for a high volume of employees across office, field, and manufacturing roles, from HRIS setup, background checks, and site readiness to termination entries, final pay, and system deactivation.
Process job changes, transfers, and pay changes with high accuracy, and keep employee data clean as T&M teams move onto Atoms' core HR systems.
Partner with Payroll on timekeeping audits for hourly and shift-based employees, including overtime and premium pay, and help make sure roles are classified correctly as exempt or non-exempt.
Qualification
3-5 years of HR experienceBachelor's degree preferredExperience supporting hourlyStrong analytical skillsHungry and builder-mindedClearOrganized and detail-oriented
Required
3-5 years of HR experience, ideally as an HR Generalist in logistics, transportation, manufacturing, or a high-growth start-up.
Bachelor's degree preferred, or equivalent combination of education and experience accepted.
Experience supporting hourly, field, or manufacturing employees across multiple US states, including exempt vs. non-exempt classification. International exposure is a plus.
Proficient with or the ability to quickly learn payroll management, human resource information system (HRIS), and similar computer applications. Workday experience is a plus.
Strong analytical skills: comfortable with spreadsheets, building reports, and pulling insight from HRIS data.
Hungry and builder-minded: you've worked without a playbook, figured it out, and stayed with a problem until it was fixed. You're comfortable with ambiguity and speed while holding a high bar for quality.
Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to manage sensitive and confidential situations with tact, professionalism, and diplomacy.
Clear, confident communication skills, both written and verbal.
Organized and detail-oriented, with a deep care for doing great work. You raise the bar for yourself and others.
AI-fluent and already using new tools to work faster and improve HR processes at scale.
