Position: Human Resources Generalist - Entry Level
Updated: June 2026
IMPORTANT: ONLY FULLY BILINGUAL ENGLISH AND JAPANESE APPLICANTS WILL BE CONSIDERED.
Petro-Diamond Incorporated - a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan - is a leading company in the trade, marketing and distribution of clean petroleum transportation fuels in Southern California.
Description:
This a newly created hands-on and entry level role responsible for assisting and supporting the day-to-day operation of the department as well as the execution of special projects. The role required a team player responsible for implementing and executing various HR-related programs/initiatives across the company. The position will also support the office administration of both the corporate office and the terminal facility, while serving as liaison with Mitsubishi Corporation – Japan, concerning the execution of logistics and administrative affairs.
Responsibilities:
Human Resources & Office Administration:
- Support the recruitment function by screening resumes, contacting eligible candidates and scheduling interviews with the hiring team.
- Coordinating the new hire orientation by compiling the new hire paperwork and execution of background checks prior to employment
- Responsible for employee’s record/document management ensuring accuracy and compliance with federal and state labor legislation
- Provide assistance in the execution of HR policies and procedures
- Responsible for coordinating all engagements initiatives and company events; including vendors research and budget/costs
- Responsible for new hire benefits enrollment process, qualified changes and terminations
- Maintaining records of incidents, injuries for worker’s compensation compliance
- Serve as backup for payroll processing
- Responsible for updating the organization chart and contact list, as needed
- First point of contact for calls and in-person inquiries from vendors and general public
- Attend/receive deliveries for the corporate office
- Receive, open, sort and deliver all incoming daily mail
- Process requests for business cards
- Keep inventory of supplies for PDI and PDTC and provide monthly purchase orders for processing to the HR Manager
- Provide support in coordinating the logistics for the corporate office document control, organization and storage
- Support with all building maintenance needs as they present
Corporate Planning & Governance Support (Headquarter – Japan):
- Provide support in all logistics matters when coordinating the quarterly Board of Directors.
- Collecting attendees’ availability
- Consolidating presentation materials
- Arranging meeting venues and dinners
- Shareholder and visitor coordination
- Travel arrangements and hotel reservations
- Provide support for periodic shareholder reporting
- Coordinating with Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan the approval of credit renewals
- Other recurring compliance – related submissions
Qualification Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree is required, preferably in Human Resources or Accounting
- Fully bilingual English and Japanese
- Experience in the petroleum distribution industry is highly preferred
- Experience working with C-level upper management
- Able to work in an extremely high fast-paced environment
- 2 – 3 years of experience working with HRIS as well as ATS
- Extremely detailed oriented
- Excellent organization and presentation skills
- Fast and accurate data processing and analysis
- Able to superbly manage cut-off tasks and dates
- Extremely responsive (flexible) to business prioritization requests
- System savvy and follower of internal controls
- Superb ability to handle confidential information with professionalism and integrity
- Excellent email etiquette and communication skills both verbal and written
- Extremely proactive attitude
- Must be able to lift 35 pounds as needed