Senior HR Manager

Quick Facts

Compensation: $127,100 to $183,000 annually target range $127,000 - $140,000

Working hours: Full-time, Exempt, 90% on-site

Reports to: Head of HR

Industry: Marine Terminal

Job Functions: Human Resources

The Senior Manager, of Human Resources is a hands-on operational leader responsible for personally managing the day-to-day activities of multiple people-focused functions, including Human Resources, Learning & Development, Organizational Performance, Employee Relations, Benefits, Talent Management, and Workers' Compensation. This role directly performs and manages daily HR operations, compliance, and workforce support across all functions. Each day is different from the next, especially with social interactions.

Reporting to the Head of HR, this role is accountable for executing established HR strategies and ensuring consistent, effective delivery across all functions. The position requires a strong operational mindset, with direct ownership of daily HR activities including recruiting, employee relations, safety coordination, benefits administration, and compliance.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Talent Acquisition

• Own full-cycle recruiting - from creative sourcing strategy through offer and onboarding
• Build proactive pipelines, not just reactive job postings;
• Partner closely with hiring managers to define what great looks like before the search begins
• Deliver a consistent, high-quality candidate experience that reflects the Husky brand

Onboarding & Employee Experience

• Lead a best-in-class onboarding experience that sets employees up for success from day one
• Create early engagement strategies that reflect company values and culture
• Continuously improve the employee experience across the full lifecycle

Benefits, Payroll & HR Operations

• Serve as the primary point of contact for employees, guiding them through HR processes and answering questions on policies, programs, and procedures
• Administer benefits programs and manage vendor relationships
• Oversee payroll processing, ensuring accuracy and timeliness, reconcile weekly and bi-weekly payroll
• Administer leave programs (FMLA, state-specific leaves, etc.)
• Maintain HR systems, employee records, org charts, and data integrity across platforms (e.g., UKG, LMS, Employee Navigator)
• Develop and deliver regular HR reporting on key metrics: headcount, turnover, hiring, and KPIs that align HR performance with business outcomes
• Maintain compliance across multi-state employment requirements; serve as internal subject matter expert on employment law
• Partner with the Head of HR to implement HR programs and support workforce initiatives, engagement efforts, and organizational effectiveness
• Partner with Safety to support safety initiatives, workers' compensation claims, and return-to-work programs
• Support audits, reporting requirements, and documentation standards

Culture & Employee Relations

• Be present and trusted, across all levels of the organization
• Lead employee engagement committee, rewards and recognition platform and partner with Head of HR to develop ideas to drive employee engagement
• Conduct or support employee investigations, documenting findings and providing recommendations
• Champion continuous improvement
• Support managers on employee/labor relations matters, ensuring consistent and fair application of company policies and practices

Performance Management & Leadership Development

• Execute performance management processes, including goal setting, annual reviews, coaching, and performance improvement plans
• Partner with managers to elevate the quality of performance conversations, feedback, and accountability
• Build, deliver, and support training and development programs; evaluate effectiveness and adjust as needed

Additional Responsibilities include the following.

• Comply with Corporate Safety and department policies and procedures.
• Attend required safety trainings and meetings; follow all safety and health guidelines, standards, practices, policies, and procedures; and actively participate in the Husky's Emergency Preparedness program and activities
• This position description generally describes the principal functions of the position, the level of knowledge and skills typically required and the general scope of responsibility. It is not intended as a complete list of specific duties and responsibilities and should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements. Individuals will perform other duties as assigned

Thank you for your interest in our Senior Manager of HR role. As part of our application process, we require all candidates to complete a short behavioral survey. It only takes 6 minutes to complete, there is no right, or wrong answers. Please take the survey in a distraction free environment and in the language you are most comfortable with.

Here is the link, https://assessment.predictiveindex.com/bo/DJVB/HRTemp_Mar2026_204811

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field required, or equivalent combination of education and 5+ years of HR management experience
• SHRM-CP/SCP or PHR/SPHR certification preferred

Related experience:

• 5+ years of HR management experience
• Proven experience in a small HR department, ability to build structure, not just operated within it
• Background in manufacturing, industrial, marine terminal, or union environments strongly preferred
• PNW-based with deep familiarity with the Seattle/Tacoma talent market and employment landscape
• Multi-state employment experience; comfortable navigating varying compliance requirements
• Exceptional empathy, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience managing multiple HR disciplines (e.g., employee relations, talent, benefits, leaves)

Required Competencies:

• High emotional intelligence, the kind that earns trust from the organization
• Very people- and service-oriented. Must spend time building and maintaining relationships, with a natural tendency to help, not pressure, others.
• A self-starter who builds process and structure where it doesn't exist, and improves it where it does
• Comfortable with ambiguity and energized by a turnaround environment
• Hands-on executor, there is no job too small or too meaningless to be done, no task beneath you
• Strategic thinker with strong business acumen and the ability to translate vision into action
• Exceptional relationship builder, communicator, and coach
• Highly organized, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

Required Credentials:

• Ability to obtain a valid TWIC (Transportation Worker Identification Credential)
• Valid Driver's license

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to lift and/or move up to 5 pounds. The employee is regularly required to stand for long periods of time; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; balance; bend and reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. Occasionally required to sit, stoop, kneel, squat, crouch, or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet environment and work near moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is typical business office level.

Benefits:
One of Husky's core values is People First. Husky Terminal cares about its employees and lives this value by offering competitive pay and a benefits package that supports you and your family. The company strives to keep benefits comprehensive and affordable.

Our benefits include:

• Potential annual discretionary bonus up to 15% of base salary for this role. Annual bonuses are subject to personal and company performance.
• Employer paid Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription insurance or employee can purchase buy-up plans
• Company Paid Basic Life and AD&D Insurance at two times base salary, with the option to purchase supplemental insurance
• No cost short-term and long-term disability
• Annual time off and sick time
• 10 Paid holidays
• 5 Floating days, prorated in first year depending on hire date
• Employee Assistance Program
• 401K with matching contributions up to 6% of the employee's eligible earnings




• 4% vested immediately, and full vesting is attained after three years of service




• Free onsite parking

NOTE: This position description generally describes the principal functions of the position, the level of knowledge and skills typically required and the general scope of responsibility. It is not intended as a complete list of specific duties and responsibilities and should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements. Individuals will perform other duties as assigned.

Husky Terminal is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; religion; national origin; sex (including pregnancy); sexual orientation; gender identity and/or expression; age; disability; genetic information, citizenship status; military service obligations or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.