Human Resources Generalist

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Full-Time · Loris, South Carolina (on-site)

Looking for an HR job? Look elsewhere.

Looking for a position of trust — where your attention to detail, discernment, and initiative make an impact every single day? Read on.

We’re Laudisi — the people behind Smokingpipes.com, Peterson of Dublin, Cornell & Diehl, Low Country Pipe & Cigar, and a handful of other brands you’ve probably never heard of (but our customers are obsessed with). Our HR department provides services to the more than 220 Laudisians based in the US, making sure they’re hired right, paid right, and taken care of. That team is small, so every person on it carries real weight.

This role reports to our HR Manager and keeps the day-to-day of HR running smoothly, from a new hire’s first day to their last.

Your role? You’re the first stop between our people and the answers they need.

WHAT YOU’LL ACTUALLY DO

Keep onboarding, benefits, leaves, and records moving with the kind of accuracy that makes a new hire tell their friends, “Everything was ready on my first day. Everything.”

That’s the standard. Every employee. Every record.

You’ll also:

• Own onboarding: new-hire paperwork, I-9 verification, orientation, and system setup, so a new hire spends day one learning the job, not chasing forms
• Handle benefits enrollment and changes, and answer the questions that come with them in plain English
• Track leaves of absence and keep documentation accurate and on time
• Maintain personnel files and our HRIS, and process status and pay changes correctly the first time
• Support payroll with time, attendance, and change documentation, because nobody should have to double-check their own paycheck
• Be the first stop for employee questions, and know when something needs to go up the chain
• Manage offboarding, including exit paperwork, and handle someone’s last day with the same care as their first
• Keep confidential information exactly that: confidential

YOU’LL THRIVE HERE IF:

You’re not looking to push paper. You’re looking to take care of people.

You’re organized, accurate, and allergic to loose ends. You can juggle a dozen requests at once — a benefits question, a pay change, a new hire who starts Monday — without dropping one. When something’s off, it bothers you until it’s fixed.

You don’t need someone checking your work; you own it.

You’re approachable, and people walk away from you with answers. You explain a deadline as clearly in an email as you do across a desk. When someone brings you something sensitive, you handle it with discretion and good judgment, and you know which problems are yours to solve and which belong with your HR Manager.

And you show up every day ready to be part of the team, because a small HR team only works when everyone carries their share.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

Experience matters in this role, but so does the way you work. What we’re looking for:

• A real intolerance for sloppiness. When a file is incomplete or a pay change looks off, you notice and you fix it.
• 2 to 4 years of HR generalist or HR coordinator experience
• Hands-on experience with benefits administration, onboarding, and an HRIS
• Working knowledge of employment basics: I-9, FMLA, ADA, and EEO
• Strong Microsoft Office or Google Workspace skills
• aPHR, PHR, or SHRM-CP a plus
• Curiosity about pipes, cigars, or really any other “deep hobby” world where the minutiae really matter
• Availability to work on-site, Monday through Friday, and the ability to pass a criminal background check

YOU CAN EXPECT:

• Compensation and benefits: $58,000 per year; health, dental, and vision insurance; six paid holidays; generous PTO; 401(k) with 1:1 match up to 4% and no vesting period.
• Perks: casual dress (jeans and t‑shirts), tuition reimbursement, referral bonuses, year‑end bonuses, fresh fruit daily, paid luncheons, and regular company events.
• Growth: A company that has grown every year for a quarter century tends to keep outgrowing what it has — and the people who’ve benefited most here are the ones who showed up with aptitude and judgment before a bigger role existed to put them in.
• Culture: a passionate group of “Laudisians” who take their work seriously and like working with other people who do, too.
• Reality check: we work around tobacco and smoke; many of us are enthusiasts. You’ll often be in smoking areas, so you’ll need to be comfortable with that.

THE BOTTOM LINE

This job isn’t for someone who wants to process forms and close the door. It’s for people who know every document has a person behind it, who get frustrated when someone falls through the cracks, and who want to be the reason people trust HR.

If you’re reading this and thinking, “Finally, an HR role where I’m more than a paper-pusher” — apply below.

If you’re reading this and thinking, “Wow, they sound intense” — we probably are. And that’s fine. There are plenty of other jobs out there.

But if you want to be the person a growing company depends on — on a team that’s building HR the right way?

We’re building something here. Come help us build it right.

HOW TO APPLY

Apply via corporate.laudisi.com for the HR Generalist role and upload your resume and a cover letter explaining why you think you’d be a great fit at Laudisi.

Look, we’re super passionate about the things we do—for many of us that includes the things we buy, make, and sell chiefly pipes, pipe tobacco, and cigars. Lots of us smoke tobacco at Laudisi and there will be times when you must work in smoking areas. Please consider whether you are comfortable working around smoke and tobacco before applying for this position.

Check us out and apply at corporate.laudisi.com

Applicants being considered must pass a criminal background check. Our hiring and employment practices are based solely on job related criteria, and we do not discriminate on the basis of any characteristic protected by law.