<div class="content-intro"><h5 style="text-align: left;">Forgen is dedicated to building a better future - for generations.</h5></div><p><strong>Location:</strong> Houston; Denton, TX</p> <p><strong>Position Summary</strong></p> <p>The Field Human Resources Generalist delivers consistent People Operations support across the employee lifecycle for assigned offices, regions, and jobsites. The role combines centralized HR service delivery with hands-on field support by coordinating onboarding and pre-employment requirements, processing employee changes, maintaining records, addressing routine employee and supervisor questions, supporting employee-relations intake, and implementing People programs. The position applies established policies and procedures, provides local context and follow-through, and escalates complex, sensitive, high-risk, or precedent-setting matters to the Senior Human Resources Generalist or People Operations leadership.</p> <p><strong>Primary role focus:</strong> End-to-end Level 2 HR service delivery, including centralized employee-lifecycle execution, regional relationships, and jobsite support.</p> <p><strong>Forgen Overview</strong></p> <p>Forgen is a leading geotechnical and specialty civil construction company operating across North America. We are dedicated to delivering innovative solutions for complex civil, geotechnical, and environmental challenges, guided by our core values: We Do What We Say, We Are Passionate About Our Work, We Are One Team, We Work Smart, and We Do The Right Thing.</p> <p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Serve as a day-to-day HR contact for assigned employees, supervisors, offices, and jobsites; resolve routine questions regarding People processes, policies, employee records, and resource routing, and escalate matters outside established authority.</li> <li>Build effective working relationships with project managers, superintendents, craft supervisors, employees, and centralized People partners to ensure local needs are understood and addressed.</li> <li>Coordinate onboarding from accepted offer through completion of pre-employment, employment eligibility, orientation, employee record, jobsite badging, and client-clearance requirements in partnership with the People Coordinator, Talent Acquisition, HRIS, Payroll, Benefits, Safety, and hiring leaders.</li> <li>Process and track approved employee lifecycle changes, including transfers, reporting relationships, locations, compensation, leaves, status changes, layoffs, terminations, resignations, and rehires.</li> <li>Coordinate drug screens, physicals, background checks, project or client clearances, employment verifications, and other third-party or jobsite requirements.</li> <li>Provide guidance on standard policies and procedures, document employee-relations concerns, and support initial fact gathering; assist with interviews, records collection, and follow-up actions under the direction of the assigned investigation lead.</li> <li>Support leave and accommodation intake by gathering required information, communicating process expectations, and partnering with the Benefits/Leave team; do not independently approve or deny leave or accommodations.</li> <li>Coordinate approved offboarding and termination logistics, unemployment claim information, exit documentation, and handoffs to HRIS, Payroll, Benefits, Safety, and other partners.</li> <li>Maintain complete and accurate employee files, case intake notes, trackers, forms, and supporting documentation in accordance with retention, confidentiality, and access requirements.</li> <li>Prepare recurring reports, audit data, monitor pending items, identify recurring service gaps or workforce trends, and communicate findings to People Operations leadership.</li> <li>Support workforce-planning discussions by gathering hiring and staffing needs from operations leaders and providing regional, field, and jobsite context to Talent Acquisition.</li> <li>Coordinate local implementation of policy updates, open enrollment, training, engagement activities, compliance initiatives, and People programs.</li> <li>Provide procedural guidance and task direction to the People Coordinator for assigned activities without serving as the position manager unless separately assigned.</li> <li>Partner with the HRIS Analyst on transactions, data corrections, workflow issues, reporting needs, and recurring system trends; do not independently alter system configuration or security.</li> <li>Travel to assigned offices and jobsites to maintain appropriate visibility and perform additional assignments as directed.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Basic Qualifications</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.</li> <li>Two to four years of HR generalist, employee-facing HR, or employee-lifecycle experience.</li> <li>Working knowledge of HR practices and core requirements related to EEO, wage and hour, leave, accommodations, workers compensation, employee records, and employee relations.</li> <li>Experience using an HRIS/HCM platform and Microsoft Office, including Excel and Outlook.</li> <li>Strong interpersonal, organization, documentation, customer service, problem-solving, and written and verbal communication skills.</li> <li>Ability to manage multiple priorities, work effectively with office and field employees, maintain confidentiality, apply established procedures, and escalate appropriately.&