Human Resources Assistant

About the role

Turner & Townsend, a global consultancy active in real estate, infrastructure and natural resources, is looking for a Human Resources Assistant in Santiago to support its HR team. The role covers HR administrative tasks mainly in Chile and supports the department's daily activities across LATAM.

Key responsibilities

• Manage onboarding and offboarding processes, including receiving new hires, welcoming them and running end-to-end onboarding sessions (documentation, policy and benefits orientation)
• Register new joiners and terminations, update the org chart and keep the HR SharePoint up to date
• Control employee files and maintain records for life insurance, medical insurance, birthday files, vacation balances and employment contracts
• Support benefits administration, benefits and wellbeing, and personnel health and safety management
• Support staff event coordination and respond to staff inquiries on HR policies and benefits
• Assist with visa and relocation matters and coordinate onboarding logistics for remote and project-site hires, including travel arrangements
• Work with Finance, IT and Office Management to set up equipment, expense platforms and access credentials

Required profile

• At least 4 years of related experience with an Administration degree
• At least 2 years working on site projects, including accreditation processes for site access
• Proven experience in HR admin tasks such as medical leaves, employee files and ideally payroll, benefits and relocation
• Ability to work 100% in the office and to multi-task efficiently
• Advanced English level

Required skills

• Good proficiency in MS Office: Outlook, SharePoint, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and Zoom
• Familiarity with HRIS software is advantageous
• Experience with labour websites (mutual, previred, Dirección del Trabajo, immigration, etc.)
• Excellent administrative, organizational and communication skills