Job Description
Founded in 1986, KPA is a leading provider of Workforce Compliance software and consulting services. We succeed if our clients can send their employees home at night, having not experienced a workplace accident or injury. The combination of software, consulting, and training helps clients identify, remedy, and prevent workplace safety and compliance problems so they can focus on what’s important – their core business.
Help us help keep people safe and businesses working efficiently. Named as one of Built In Colorado’s Best Places to Work for seven years in a row, KPA is made up of talented individuals working together for the greater good. We’re here to help our clients build safe, thriving organizations, and we’re looking for people with a common goal to help us do it.
Position Description:
The Human Resources Coordinator plays a key role in supporting day‑to‑day Human Resources operations while overseeing office facility management and workplace experience. This position supports core HR functions including onboarding and offboarding, policy administration, employee relations, and HR compliance, while also managing office operations to ensure a welcoming, efficient, and well‑organized workplace. This position provides on-site support for our Lafayette, Colorado office with roughly 2 days per week being in-person.
This role requires a highly organized, service‑oriented professional who can handle confidential information with discretion, balance multiple priorities, and create a positive employee experience.
Responsibilities:
Human Resources Coordination:
- Serve as a Human Resources point of contact for employee inquiries, providing timely, professional, and confidential support and internal communications, while balancing the needs of the company
- Maintain accurate employee records in HRIS systems (Paylocity), including I9’s, onboarding and offboarding documentation, employee changes, and support audits
- Coordinate, and lead onboarding and offboarding processes, including documentation, systems access, and facilitation of multi-faceted remote new hire orientation, while continuously improving the overall employee experience
- Maintain and update job descriptions and HR policies for consistency and compliance
- Intake employee relations issues, escalating as appropriate and partnering with HR leadership
- Assist with benefits system administration,open enrollment preparation, and employee communications
- Support recruitment processes, including posting job openings to our ATS, and submitting new hire requisitions
- Support KPA event planning, employee engagement and recognition initiatives
- Facilitate timely responses to external employment verification requests, unemployment claims, and other HR-related documentation
- Provide other Human Resources administration support as assigned
Office Management:
- Support the overall workplace experience by maintaining our Lafayette, CO office, ensuring cleanliness standards, organization, and operational readiness; role is hybrid, requiring on‑site presence at least two days per week
- Oversee mail distribution, including scanning documents to appropriate parties
- Oversee ongoing maintenance of employee gear store
- Order and manage office supplies, equipment, business cards, and employee materials
- Support office events, meetings, employee celebrations, and engagement activities
- Provide additional administrative support as assigned
Qualifications:
- 2+ years of experience in Human Resources, office administrative, or related business role
- Knowledge of human resources best practices and processes and a desire to learn and improve HR acumen
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and customer‑service skills
- Technically adept – solid understanding of Microsoft Office Suite and prior experience/able to pick up new platforms quickly, prior experience with Applicant Tracking Systems, HR Management software, or similar a plus
- Experience managing sensitive information professionally and confidentially
Bonus Experience:
- Knowledge of employment laws and HR compliance (FMLA, ADA, workers’ compensation is a plus)
- Experience with Paylocity or another similar HRIS
- Experience supporting talent acquisition (recruiting, interviewing, and hiring is a plus)
- Prior office management, facilities coordination, or event planning experience
Success Criteria:
- Approachable and engaging personality with a professional style of communication
- Proficiency in engaging in employee interactions, while professionally balancing the needs of KPA, and maintaining a high level of confidentiality
- Strong ability to multi-task and prioritize using independent and sound judgement
- Highly organized, manages time effectively, and is adaptable and comfortable in a fast-paced environment
- Aptitude in learning and researching compliance and employment laws at both a state and Federal level
Compensation:
- Base salary range between $60-70k
- Bonus potential of 7.5% annually
Physical Requirements:
- 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 accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Working on a computer, typing, and viewing a screen - often
- Stationary sitting or standing - often
- Hearing and listening - often
- Bending, crouching, and lifting up to 20lbs - frequently
- Ability to travel locally to our office in Lafayette, CO roughly two times per week
- Ability to travel regionally and nationally - infrequently
Don’t meet every job requirement? At KPA, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply unless they meet every requirement. If you’re excited about the role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we still encourage you to apply! You might just be the right candidate for this or other roles.
As a growing company KPA values its employees by supporting them with a full benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible Spending Accounts, PTO, Paid and Floating Holidays, 401k with Company match and immediate vesting, Company-funded Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Programs, and No-cost Mental Health Benefits.
About KPA
Founded in 1986, KPA is a leading provider of Environment, Health & Safety (EHS), and Workforce Compliance software and consulting services. KPA solutions help clients identify, remedy, and prevent workplace safety and compliance problems across their entire enterprise. The combination of KPA’s software, consulting services, and award-winning training content helps organizations minimize risk so they can focus on what’s important—their core business.
We are passionate about what we do, how we do and why we do it. Our culture is driven by the KPA core values – Integrity, Helpful, Excellence, Agile, Respectful, and Teamwork. Success will be determined by the capabilities, energy and character of the people we bring into our organization and the performance they achieve.
KPA, with headquarters in Colorado and teammates throughout the United Sates, is recognized as one of Colorado’s Best Places to Work to Work by Built In Colorado for 2025, making the list seven years running.
KPA is committed to providing equal opportunity in all of our employment practices, including selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation, to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, religion, religious dress/grooming, color, ethnicity, sex (including sex stereotyping), sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, creed, uniform service member status, military or veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, breast-feeding and/or pregnancy-related conditions, age, protected medical condition, leave status, physical or mental disability, genetic characteristics, or any other legally-protected status in accordance with the requirements of all federal, state and local laws. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.
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