
HR Generalist
Birmingham, ALJobSeen 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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Job overview
The Human Resources Generalist supports employees and HR leadership with benefits, employee records, onboarding, orientation, coaching, and counseling. The role also supports policy reviews and compliance, handles special projects and terminations, and advises leaders on employee discipline and policy interpretation. It investigates employee complaints and manages offboarding, including exit interviews.
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Job Summary
The Human Resources Generalist supports the HR department and employees by providing a wide range of human resources services. Under the direction of HR leadership, this role is responsible for assisting employees with benefits, maintaining data integrity and employee records, and participating in HR initiatives. The HR Generalist plays a key role in onboarding, new hire orientation, employee coaching, and counseling. Additional responsibilities include supporting policy and procedure reviews, ensuring compliance with hospital and regulatory standards, and handling special projects. The HR Generalist will also uphold HR policies and procedures and manage the employee termination process.
Essential Functions
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Demonstrates a high level of competence, professionalism, and confidentiality, ensuring that information is communicated accurately, timely, and appropriately.
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Ensures compliance with all regulatory requirements, including but not limited to orientation, employee education, competencies, performance evaluations, and licensure and certifications.
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Assists with Human Resources communications and responds to questions regarding policies, procedures, timekeeping systems, accruals, and benefits.
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Prepares reports and information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends.
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Counsels and assists leaders on employee discipline, performance improvement plans, and termination hearings/meetings. Consults leaders on policy interpretation and execution.
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Investigates employee complaints, grievances, and/or allegations of policy violations, consulting with leadership to reach resolutions.
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Manages offboarding processes, including conducting exit interviews.
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Performs other duties as assigned.
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Maintains regular and reliable attendance.
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Complies with all policies and standards.
Qualifications
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Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, or related field required or
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Four (4) plus years of direct experience in lieu of Bachelor's degree required
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1-3 years of experience in business administration and/or human resources preferred
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
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Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
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Ability to exercise sound judgment in making critical decisions.
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Knowledge of federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations.
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Ability to learn and use HR software and other relevant technology.
Equal Employment Opportunity
This organization does not discriminate in any way to deprive any person of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect the status of any employee because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, citizenship, veteran status, or military or uniformed services, in accordance with all applicable governmental laws and regulations. In addition, the facility complies with all applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to: hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. If you are an applicant with a mental or physical disability who needs a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, contact the director of Human Resources at the facility to which you are seeking employment; Simply go to http://www.chs.net/serving-communities/locations/ to obtain the main telephone number of the facility and ask for Human Resources.
How this job compares
Set against the 436 open Human Resources Generalist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 8, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$70–88K/yr138 salary ranges
- US median$27–30/hr40 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 436 open Human Resources Generalist jobs across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Human Resources Generalist postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 324 postings).
- Education
- 103 of the 436 open Human Resources Generalist jobs (24%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 8, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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