HR People Partner - Benefits & Leaves

We are Herrera

Envision yourself at a growing, employee-owned company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best performance while making a difference in the world. 

We are Herrera, a science, planning, and design consulting firm dedicated to working with clients to develop holistic solutions that provide social and environmental benefit. We protect the environment every day by providing a diverse range of consulting services to cities, counties, state and federal agencies, Tribes, non-profits, and private clients throughout Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, and western Canada. 

For over 40 years, Herrera has cultivated a collaborative, caring, and values-driven culture that empowers our employee-owners to achieve excellence while ensuring we have fun along the way. By providing our employee-owners with the autonomy to pursue their professional interests and through encouraging them to grow, we benefit from high employee-owner retention that contributes to our longstanding partnerships with clients. 

Our Values

• Treat everyone with respect and dignity, always. 
• Insist on integrity, objectivity, and social and environmental ethics in our work. 
• Act as stewards of the environment upon which we depend. 
• Research and outreach, learn and teach.
• Employee owners, employee leaders.

Your Opportunity

Do you find meaning in helping employees navigate important moments with clarity and care? Are you ready to bring your exceptional communication skills, sharp eye for detail, and ability to juggle multiple priorities to our agile and collaborative People & Culture team?

In this role, you'll build supportive relationships with employees at every level and across disciplines while managing all facets of benefits, leaves, accommodations, workers’ compensation, and compliance. If you're highly organized, skilled at providing clear, supportive guidance, and motivated to help shape a great employee experience, we’d love to hear from you.

In this role we will count on you to:

• Build trusting relationships with employees by offering clear, compassionate guidance on benefits, leaves, accommodations, and workplace policies.
• Administer health and wellness benefits, ensuring employees understand their options and have seamless access to coverage.
• Coordinate leaves of absence and reasonable accommodations with empathy and care, maintaining compliance with FMLA, ADA, and state-specific laws.
• Manage workers’ compensation cases with attention to employee wellbeing, safety, and program requirements.
• Maintain accurate employee records and employee data changes, collaborating with payroll and other partners to ensure integrity and timeliness.
• Support compliance and equity efforts by staying current on employment laws, preparing required reporting, completing compensation benchmarking surveys, and maintaining organized records.

• Responding to inquiries via the People team inbox, maintaining procedures documentation, and managing updates to the org chart.
• Contributing to a collaborative, proactive People & Culture team environment by supporting process management, continuous improvement, and shared team goals.

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, or related field
• 3+ years of progressive HR experience with a focus on benefits, leave administration, and compliance
• Experience with HRIS/HCM systems and benefits platforms

• Proficiency in all applications within Microsoft 365
• Advanced knowledge of multi-state employment law, especially as it relates to leave, accommodations, and benefits compliance
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage different audiences
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities

Application deadline: July 25, 2025

We are proud to support our employee-owners by offering the following compensation and benefits.

• This position is salaried and exempt from overtime; the annual salary range is $70,000 - $90,000
• Flexible hybrid work culture; Tuesdays and Thursdays in-office in Seattle
• Medical/prescription drug/dental/vision insurance for employees and dependents; employees covered at no cost on base plan with buy-up options available; company contribution for dependents
• Section 125 flexible benefits plans – healthcare and dependent care
• Company-paid life insurance for employees; option to purchase additional life insurance for employees and dependents at employees’ expense
• Company-paid long term disability insurance for employees; option to purchase short-term disability insurance at employees’ expense
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid vacation accrued at 3.077 hours every two weeks (for a 40 hour/week employee, equivalent to 10 days per year)
• Paid sick time accrued at 3.077 hours every two weeks (for a 40 hour/week employee, equivalent to 10 days per year)
• Flexible paid holidays (10)
• Paid volunteer time (8 hours annually)
• Company-paid annual membership dues for one professional organization
• Professional development / continuing education allowance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Transit benefit

To learn more, please visit our website at: www.herrerainc.com

Reliable internet service is required for remote work, with acceptable types including cable, DSL, or fiber and minimum speeds of 30 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload. A wired Ethernet connection is strongly preferred. Dial-up, satellite, wireless bridges, range extenders, and outdated or weak Wi-Fi connections are not supported.
 

We Are Committed to Equal Opportunity, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At Herrera, we celebrate our differences as much as our similarities. We know the best outcomes come from interdisciplinary, diverse, and inclusive teams. Our values are ever-present in the people, culture, and work we do, they are not just a few sentences on our website. We treat people with respect and act with integrity and objectivity. Our employment decisions are based on knowledge, skills, and abilities, and have nothing to do with your race, color, gender, gender identity, age, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, medical history, reproductive health decisions, political ideology, veteran status, or physical appearance. As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, we encourage women, minorities, veterans, disabled veterans, and individuals with disabilities to apply for our open positions. We are also a member of E-Verify. To learn more about E-Verify, read the E-Verify Notice and the Right to Work Notice.