Sustainable Living Innovations Hiring for Director of Human Resources Job at Seattle, WA Full Time

Corporate Human Resources Director
Sustainable Living Innovations, Inc. (SLI) is a building technology company revolutionizing the built environment. We produce tech-enabled buildings that meet or exceed the world’s most stringent sustainability standards. Our suite of software spans the entire building lifecycle, providing unparalleled data and analytics to owners and operators and our platform is changing the way buildings are built. Our mission is to set a new standard of sustainable living while addressing housing affordability.

At SLI we believe that the world becomes a better place, one person at a time, and when a person helps another person, in that moment the world is a better place. We want everyone that SLI touches to be positively impacted, including employees of SLI, people that live in SLI buildings, and people that own SLI buildings. It all starts with helping each other.

Our Human Resources Director will jump in and drive all of SLI’s people initiatives with the following responsibilities:

• Develops and delivers a robust HR strategy that is aligned to the human capital priorities of SLI — looking beyond today and into the future to ensure the company can achieve its growth curve.
• Creates and manages an HR climate that supports SLI’s strategic objectives.
• Administers or oversees the administration of human resource programs including, but not limited to, compensation, benefits, and leave; employee stock option plan; disciplinary matters; disputes and investigations; performance and talent management; productivity, recognition, and morale; environmental health and safety; and training and development.
• Collaborates with other senior leadership to understand the organization’s goals and strategy related to staffing, recruiting, and retention.
• Maintains knowledge of trends, best practices, regulatory changes, and new technologies in human resources, talent management, and employment law; applies this knowledge to communicate changes in policy, practice, and resources to the leadership team to maintain compliance.
• Creates and embeds a culture of continuous improvement that will identify service gaps, HR operational needs or opportunities for different ways of working through internal and outsourced providers.
• Develops and implements metrics and measures across all HR activities.
• Works closely with other service teams such as IT (HRIS to include ATS and L&D systems), Finance (Payroll), and Insurance.
• Directs, plans, and manages HR team performance and development.
• Develops HR capability in the understanding and application of employment law (federal, state, and Canadian), policies and practices to ensure all HR policies, procedures, and documentation are compliant with relevant legislation, consistent in approach, and manages risk appropriately.
• Represents the HR function internally and externally to a range of stakeholders.
• Ensures that all company and employee interactions and engagements are carried out with the highest ethical and professional standards and that all work is accomplished with quality and in accordance with SLI’s values.
• Collaborates with internal DEI group and company leadership to develop and implement HR and operational strategies that encourage a diverse and inclusive culture and employee group.

Our successful candidate will have a toolkit that includes the following:

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• BA/BS in Human Resources or related field is preferred but not required. PHR/SPHR preferred. Minimum ten years of functional experience with demonstrated increasing responsibility, skills and breadth of experience with five years or more of people leadership.
• Highly skilled HR professional with demonstrated proficiency and knowledge in the principles and practices of Human Resources across disciplines is required. Three or more years with a manufacturing, product development, construction, design & engineering, and/or real estate development setting or combination thereof is preferred.
• HR experience in public company is strongly preferred.
• HR Systems experience required.
• Experience with project management (planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives).

SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES

• Excellent senior-level stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Strong project management skills.
• Ability to work at both a strategic and operational level.
• Flexible approach to problem solving, balancing policy, best practice, legal and business issues to provide pragmatic solutions.
• Ability to assess potential problems and make sound judgements around issues that may have an adverse effect on the business from an employee relations / HR Operations perspective.
• Strong people management skills gained through managing and developing teams.
• Sensitive people skills: a high level of emotional intelligence; excellent interpersonal skills; a wide understanding of people issues.
• Insight-driven – at ease with data and analytics to demonstrate impact and return on investment.
• Ability to work well under pressure.
• Ability to demonstrate presence and credibility within the broader SLI.
• Ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels.

The above duties and responsibilities are not an exhaustive list, and you may be required to undertake other reasonable duties compatible with your experience and competencies. This description may be varied from time to time to reflect changing business requirements.

Sustainable Living Innovations, founded in 2008 by two of Seattle’s leading architects, has developed a patent-protected building system and technology to deliver ultra-efficient, mid- and high-rise residential towers in the urban core. SLI buildings cost at least 10% less to build than comparable conventional buildings, perform with 20% to 30% lower O&M expense, and can be built on “orphan” lots — small lots that are difficult to develop economically with conventional buildings. From a sustainability perspective, SLI buildings are capable of economically achieving Zero Net Energy requirements.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: Up to $150,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• HR Leadership: 5 years (Required)
• Manufacturing, Construction, or Product Development: 5 years (Required)

Willingness to travel:

• 50% (Required)

Work Location:

• Multiple locations

Work Remotely:

• No

Work Location: Multiple Locations