Salary Range: 50000 to 55000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

Job repsonsibilities:

• Provides organizational support for workers’ compensation claims, tracks incident reporting, responsible for claims administration and reporting
• Oversees the Leave of Absence program; coordinates short-term/long-term disability claims as well as paid leave programs offered through state and/or local government programs; manages and tracks FMLA
• Answers questions and resolves problems related to claims processing, provider network problems, benefit programs and coverage, as well as eligibility and qualifying life events
• Communicates with employees, carriers, insurance broker, administration, payroll, IT, etc. to resolve problems
• Processes enrollments and changes, provides support to employees with all enrollment requests
• Leads new hire benefit and open enrollment orientations; provides support to new hires with enrollment and changes.
• Works with IT department on rate change updates and system administration issues
• Distributes required notices
• Conducts routine compliance audits using Tom James and vendor reporting data; performs routine integrity checks.
• Provides oversight and coverage for benefit team members
• Assists in planning/implementing company initiatives related to wellness and wellness activities
• Creates monthly benefit communications for employees
• Oversees vendor billing and invoicing, employee deductions/overpayment, refunds, collection of backlogged benefit premiums.
• Other duties as assigned.

Work Experience/Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Prior experience in Benefits or HR administration required
• Prior AS400 knowledge desired

The ideal candidate will demonstrate the following:

• Excellent computer skills and ability to learn new software
• Ability to effectively work in a fast-paced environment and handle multiple projects
• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information and employee’s personal health information.
• Ability to work as a team and remain flexible
• Ability to relate and communicate with people of all levels within the organization
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• High attention to detail, strong work ethic, and the ability to collect, organize, and analyze data
• Ability to understand and apply benefits and employment regulations
• Ability to remain calm in stressful situations, even-tempered