HR Generalist

Human Resources (HR) Generalist – The Dinerstein Companies – Houston, TX

The HR Generalist provides comprehensive human resources support across various functions including recruitment, onboarding, payroll support, benefits administration, compliance, and employee relations. This role is pivotal in ensuring smooth HR operations and maintaining a positive employee experience.

Core Responsibilities

• Assist with posting job openings, candidate screening updates, preparing offer letters, maintaining offer letter documentation, and ensuring compliance with pay transparency requirements.
• Coordinate new hire onboarding processes, including intake forms and I-9 employment eligibility verification.
• Maintain accurate employee records in both digital and paper formats, ensuring data integrity, confidentiality, and proper record retention.
• Manage the HR inbox and respond to inquiries in a timely and professional manner.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws, labor law posting requirements, and HR policy updates.
• Monitor work visa expiration dates and maintain related documentation to ensure ongoing employment eligibility.
• Assist with audits, reporting requirements, and other compliance initiatives.

General Support

• Help administer employee benefits programs and support payroll-related processes and inquiries.
• Coordinate and maintain documentation for leave programs, including FMLA, Workers' Compensation, and Leave of Absence.
• Process employment verification requests and maintain supporting records.
• Track employee development plans, performance reviews, and training compliance through systems such as Grace Hill.

Prepare and distribute payroll variance reports to management, ensuring accuracy and timely resolution of discrepancies.

• Prepare and distribute weekly HR reports and workforce metrics to management.
• May require occasional travel for HR-related onboarding, employee events, training, or other business needs.

Employee Relations

• Respond to and appropriately address employee relations concerns while maintaining confidentiality and professionalism.
• Support conflict resolution efforts, employee engagement initiatives, and HR best practices.
• Assist with performance management activities, including Performance Improvement Plans, corrective action documentation, coaching records, and related communications.

Manage employee offboarding processes, including termination notices, separation communications, exit documentation, and communication of trends and recommendations to HR leadership.

• Utilize HRIS platforms to maintain employee data, generate reports, and support organizational decision-making.
• Maintain accurate records related to employee relations matters, investigations, corrective actions, and separations.

Qualifications & Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field preferred

1–3 years of HR experience preferred

Familiarity with HRIS systems

Strong organizational and communication skills

Ability to handle confidential information with discretion

Bilingual fluency in Spanish is highly preferred

About The Dinerstein Companies (TDC)

The Dinerstein Companies (TDC) has been building and managing the nation's finest apartment communities for over sixty years with a focus on quality, integrity, and sustainability. As one of the nation's largest developers of multi-family and student housing, TDC has completed over fifty-two thousand apartment units in twenty-six states. The company is also one of the leading "green" developers in the country with a total of $1.3 Billion in LEED product completed or currently under construction. Whether it's luxury mid-rise, high-rise conventional, or the most innovative off-campus student housing, TDC has the experience, expertise and reputation for developing the best properties possible.

TDC has directed the leasing and management at more than 46 locations in 28 states, with most student locations adjacent to the nation's largest public universities. Since 1997, TDC has been among the largest managers of new student lease-ups in the country and is recognized as a premier student housing manager and pioneer. Our sophisticated midrise and high rise properties are primarily urban developments built in the best markets ideal for convenience, walkability, transportation, and retail. The Management Team is involved throughout the entire process of pre-construction and development to ensure we build with our customers' needs in mind.

Our Mission Statement:

To do right— by our residents, our employees, and our partners.

To improve the areas in which we work.

To develop sustainable communities that endure.

Why Join The Dinerstein Companies (TDC)

We are an experience company. Not a management company.

We wake up each day with a renewed mission towards genuine hospitality and authentic care. We seek to build and encourage relationships that create lasting memories. People will know why we love our work by the way they feel after each encounter with our team and our communities. The extra degree of customer service makes all the difference. TDC looks for dynamic individuals who are eager to be the face of our company, brand, and property in the markets that we serve. Team members should embody the Core Values of The Dinerstein Companies:

The TDC Way

We play nice but we play to win. We are always HONEST, HUMBLE, and RESPECTFUL to each other and the outside world. If we don't win the right way, we don't win.

Teamwork

Our business is a partnership with our team members, residents and investors.

Service

We deliver the extra degree of service. One extra degree makes all the difference.

Safety

Safety drives us. We keep our team members and partners out of harm's way.

Commitment

We make each decision with a long term focus.

Evolve

We are always learning and improving. We don't repeat our mistakes.

Celebration

We take the time to appreciate and recognize our accomplishments and success.