About Paragon Professional Services
Paragon offers a wide range of environmental investigation, consulting, compliance, and remediation services as well as IT solutions, Facility O&M, Materiel Support, Supply and Security to both private- and public-sector clients throughout Alaska and the Continental U.S. Paragon’s experienced professional staff is dedicated to producing high-quality documentation and providing safe field execution to support its clients’ projects in line with local, state and federal guidelines and regulations.
About this position: Human Resources Manager Location: El Paso, TX
The Essential Duties and Responsibilities are intended to present a descriptive list of the range of duties performed for this position and are not intended to reflect all duties performed within the job. Other duties may be assigned. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential duty. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.
Wage/Salary Range: $90k
Applicants will be notified via phone or email within ten (10) business days of submittal.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Recruitment and Staffing — Developing and executing long-range recruitment plans to fill vacancies (a persistent challenge in corrections). This includes requesting eligible candidate lists, scheduling interviews, processing background checks/security clearances, and using specialized systems. Turnover is high, so aggressive outreach, job fairs, and targeted advertising for correctional roles are common.
- Employee Relations and Labor Management — Handling grievances, disciplinary actions, union negotiations and conflict resolution in a high-stress environment where morale issues, mandatory overtime, and safety concerns are frequent.
- Training and Employee Development — Coordinating mandatory for HR related topics. Overseeing employee development programs and advising on training needs assessments.
- Benefits, Payroll, and Compliance — Administering leave (including FMLA, workers' comp for injuries), retirement/pension programs, health benefits, and ensuring adherence to federal/state labor laws, plus detention-specific regulations.
- Performance Management — Overseeing evaluations, promotions, and succession planning in a hierarchical, paramilitary structure.
- Diversity, Safety, and Wellness Initiatives — Addressing burnout, PTSD/secondary trauma, workplace violence risks, and retention strategies amid dangerous and demanding conditions.
- Advisory Role — Serving as chief advisor to the Facility Administrator on HR matters, workforce planning, and crisis response (e.g., staffing shortages during incidents or pandemics).
Required (Minimum Necessary) Qualifications
- Education Requirements: Bachelor’s degree or better in related field
- Level of Experience Requirements: 10 Years specifically in Human Resource Manager position
- Not currently employed by federal agency/active-duty military
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other Characteristics
- Knowledge of employment labor laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, Government regulations, executive orders, agency rules and the democratic political process
- Knowledge of business and management principles involved in planning resource allocation, HR Modeling, leadership technique, productions methods and coordination of people and resources
- Ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (including finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events)
- Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services (i.e., customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services and evaluation of customer satisfaction)
- Ability to monitor/assess performance of self, other individuals and organizations to make improvements or task corrective action
- Ability to identify complex problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions
- Knowledge of principles and processes for personnel recruitment, selection, training, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems
- Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, and human resources information systems.
- Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services.
- Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, coordination of people and resources
- Ability to speak, read, write and understand English
- Effective communications skills
- Microsoft Office proficiency
- Must have the ability to effectively communicate with other employees.
- The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce a solution that will work for all employees.
- Must be able to discover and see problems that may arise in the corporation or between personnel.
- Must have the ability to listen and understand employee concerns and formulate a decision to resolve the issues.
- Must maintain a strict level of confidentiality and professional behavior.
- Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process
Preferred
Supervisory Responsibilities
- This position will have supervisory responsibilities.
DOT Covered/Safety-Sensitive Role Requirements
- This position is not subject to federal requirements regarding Department of Transportation “safety-sensitive” functions.
Necessary Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this role. Employees must always maintain a constant state of mental alertness. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Essential and marginal functions may require maintaining physical condition necessary for bending, stooping, sitting, walking or standing for prolonged periods of time; most of time is spent sitting in a comfortable position with frequent opportunity to move about
Work Environment
The work environmental characteristics described here are representative of those that must be borne by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the role. Employees must always maintain a constant state of situational awareness. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Job is performed in an office setting with exposure to computer screens and requires extensive use of a computer, keyboard, mouse and multi-line telephone system. The work described herein is primarily a modern office setting. Occasional travel may be required.
Additional Qualifying Factors
As a condition of employment, you will be required to pass a pre-employment drug screening and have acceptable background check results. If applicable to the contract, you must also obtain and maintain the appropriate clearance levels required and must also be able to obtain access to military installations.
Shareholder Preference
BSNC gives hiring, promotion, training, and retention preference to BSNC shareholders, shareholder descendants and shareholder spouses who meet the minimum qualifications for the job.
Bering Straits Native Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any status protected by state or federal law, or any other basis prohibited by law.
