About this role
The HR Business Partner serves as a trusted, on-the-ground partner to leaders and employees across Legacy Utility Group's family of entities - Energy Construction Solutions (ECS), and Guardian Traffic Solutions. This role translates people strategy into day-to-day practice: coaching managers, resolving employee relations issues, supporting talent and performance processes, and ensuring HR programs are applied consistently and fairly across a multi-entity, multi-state workforce. The ideal candidate is approachable and even-keeled under pressure, comfortable in the field as well as the office, and able to balance advocacy for employees with sound business judgment. All team members are expected to embody Legacy Utility Group's core values of Integrity, Teamwork, and Think Big in everything they do.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities described here are not a comprehensive list, and the scope of the job may change as necessitated by the business demands.
Employee Relations & Coaching
• Serve as the first point of contact for employees and managers on day-to-day HR questions, conflicts, and concerns.
• Conduct thorough, well-documented investigations into employee complaints and policy violations.
• Coach managers on performance issues, corrective action, and difficult conversations, ensuring consistency across entities.
• Partner with People team leadership on escalated or higher-risk employee relations matters.
Talent & Performance Support
• Support the annual performance review cycle, including manager training, timeline tracking, and quality checks on written feedback.
• Partner with hiring managers on job postings, interview coordination, and offer processes for assigned entities.
• Assist with onboarding execution, ensuring new hires receive a consistent, well-organized start experience.
• Identify trends in turnover, engagement, and performance data and flag emerging risks to leadership.
Policy, Compliance & Documentation
• Apply company policy consistently, escalating gaps or inconsistencies for resolution.
• Maintain accurate, audit-ready documentation for employee relations cases, leaves, and corrective actions.
• Support multi-state compliance efforts, including required postings, training, and recordkeeping.
• Partner with Compliance and Safety on matters that intersect with HR (incidents, DOT-related issues, certified payroll workforce questions).
Culture & Communication
• Act as a visible, trusted presence for field and office employees, building relationships that encourage early, honest communication.
• Support culture and engagement initiatives, including participation in Culture Committee activities as needed.
• Help translate company-wide HR communications into terms relevant to each entity's operations.
Qualification Requirements
Education:
• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field required, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience:
• 3+ years of progressive HR generalist or HR business partner experience required.
• Experience supporting a multi-entity, multi-state, or field-based workforce strongly preferred.
• Experience in construction, utility, or trades environments, including exposure to prevailing wage or certified payroll considerations, is a plus.
• SHRM-CP, PHR, or equivalent certification preferred.
Required Skills
• Sound judgment in handling confidential, sensitive, or high-stakes employee situations.
• Strong working knowledge of employment law fundamentals (leave, wage & hour, discrimination, and workplace safety basics).
• Excellent interpersonal and conflict-resolution skills; able to build trust with employees and managers alike.
• Strong written communication skills, including documentation of investigations and corrective actions.
• Comfortable managing multiple priorities across several business units and locations.
• Proficiency with HRIS platforms (e.g., BambooHR) and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Willingness and ability to travel periodically to field and entity locations.
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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit, stand, and walk. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
The employee occasionally is required to lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and distance vision.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This role splits time between an office setting and periodic travel to field sites and entity locations across LUG's service area. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate, with occasional exposure to active construction or field conditions during site visits.
Note: Legacy Utility Group is a drug-, smoke-, and alcohol-free workplace. Drug testing is a requirement for employment. Legacy Utility Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. $83,000 - $127,000