Sr. HR Generalist

Middle River Power•Chicago, IL

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Middle River Power is looking for a Senior HR Generalist to help accelerate the growth of a newer HR department and support a growing business. The ideal candidate is an experienced people operator with 5+ years of broad HR experience and a genuine specialty in people operations. They are comfortable working autonomously, managing multiple workstreams, and engaging credibly with employees, managers, and senior leaders as a trusted HR business partner. Motivated to deliver results in a demanding fast-paced environment to help enable others success. Most importantly, this candidate is comfortable and conditioned to working in a ground up environment having the chance to shape and build people systems and processes of a scaling organization.

Requirements

5+ years of progressive HR experience in a generalist or people operations capacity.
Demonstrated expertise in recruiting, sourcing, assessment, process management—across a variety of roles and workforce types.
Track record of owning and executing HR processes end-to-end with minimal oversight.
Experience onboarding employees at scale; ability to design and improve structured onboarding workflows.
Strong project management skills—organized, structured, and accountable to timelines and deliverables.
Ability to facilitate training sessions, workshops, or manager capability programs.
Experience working in a business partner capacity at the manager and director level.
Proficient with HRIS platforms and applicant tracking systems; able to work within established recruiting tools and frameworks.
Batchlor’s degree

Nice To Haves

Experience in an industrial, energy, utilities, or field-based workforce environment.
Background supporting operations, plant, or field workforce recruiting at volume.
Familiarity with PE-backed or high-growth company environments where speed and adaptability matter.
Experience with performance management cycle administration in a mid-size organization.
Worked with a national workforce, with functional experience in Illinois, California and Washington employment landscape.
Undergraduate degree in HR or SHRM-CP/SCP or PHR/SPHR certification

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end recruiting process for all MRP roles—sourcing, screening, coordinating, and supporting hiring decisions across corporate and filed operation roles.
Work within MRP's existing recruiting framework and tools; identify opportunities to evolve processes as the organization scales.
Partner with operations leaders to ensure recruiting best practices are applied consistently, and coach hiring managers through selection and best practices.
Draft and refine job descriptions that accurately reflect role requirements and MRP's employer offering.
Manage requisition volume across a variety of workforce types, maintaining quality and speed in a high-growth environment.
Develop streamline and simple hiring training and best practices for new hiring managers.
Own the onboarding process for all new hires from offer acceptance through early tenure, ensuring new employees are set up for success from day one.
Design and continuously improve onboarding workflows in partnership with site leaders and the Director of HR.
Develop early career touchpoints—30/60/90-day check-ins, structured ramp plans—to drive retention and engagement in critical operations roles.
Maintain monthly metrics dashboard of all talent acquisition KPIs.
Own the operational execution of MRP's performance management processes, including cycle management, calibration coordination, and leader enablement.
Ensure performance processes are completed on time, with quality, and in alignment with the framework set by the Director of HR.
Support managers in delivering effective performance conversations and documentation.
Track and report on cycle completion and identify areas for process improvement.
Support in the evolution of our organization’s talent development strategies and supporting a culture of high performance.
Serve as a day-to-day HR business partner for operations employees and managers—approachable, responsive, and solutions-oriented.
Build trusted relationships at the manager and director level; communicate credibly and professionally with senior stakeholders.
Trusted resource for employee relations issues, working quickly and diligently to resolve wide variety of ER cases with a diverse workforce in different locations.
Owns and manages compliance training responsibilities and implementation.
Owns the annual HR operations and compliance calendar, keeping the department and business on track.
Regularly audits and amends company policies to fit the business needs and remains up to date with rapidly changing employment laws across all local municipalities.
Has experience in payroll administration and compensation cycles.
Familiar with benefits of administration and required reporting.
Works with the companies PEO to complete annual reporting tasks.
Take ideas from concept to completion—managing HR projects and initiatives with structure, follow-through, and accountability.
Maintain process documentation, track progress against milestones, and communicate status to stakeholders proactively.
Bring a continuous improvement mindset to all people operations processes.
Project manages tech implementations or enablement’s as they arise for the department.
Leads with an AI first mindset when it comes to simple administrative tasks and builds agents to streamline repetitive tasks and operations.