Position Summary:
Assists in the administration of various employment processes and employee benefit plans such as life, health, dental, and disability insurances, vacation, sick leave, leave of absence, workers compensation, and unemployment by performing the following duties.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Enrolls new employees in benefit plans and provides benefits orientation.
• Processes status changes and reviews claims.
• Processes open enrollment benefit plan transfers.
• Maintains vendor contact to investigate discrepancies and provide information in non-routine situations.
• Provides vendors appropriate documentation for life, pension, and disability benefits claims.
• Assists in preparing materials and in presenting benefit plan changes to employees.
• Processes leave of absence approvals and rejections.
• Responds to notifications from state agency regarding unemployment claims filed by former employees; represents organization in unemployment claim hearings.
• Issues annual individual summary of benefits to employees.
• Manages pre- and post-employment drug screening programs.
• Works with safety coordinator to coordinate and manage workers’ compensation leaves and medical appointments.
• Coordinates travel by interfacing with travel services vendor and assisting employees with travel arrangements as necessary.
• Maintains employee benefit files and other record keeping.
Education/ Skills/ Experience:
• Associate's degree (A. A.) or equivalent from two-year college or technical school; or six months to one year related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Required skills:
o Problem solving/analysis
o Communication proficiency
o Ethical conduct
o Time management
o Proficiency with computer systems and applications, networked systems and personal computers, in the performance of work assignments, such as electronic spreadsheets, word processing and graphics and human resources databases.
Physical Skills and Abilities:
Physical Demands.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit. The employee is frequently required to stand and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.