About the opportunity
SWCA seeks a Total Rewards Specialist to join our Total Rewards team. This position provides primary support for Benefits and HRIS system administration**,** playing a key role in identifying system automation opportunities to support streamlining Total Rewards procedures. The position supports the administration of various employee benefits programs across a multi-state environment ensuring data accuracy, integrity and compliance with all relevant policies and governance.
This is a regular, full-time, hourly position with benefits that can be performed remotely from anywhere in the United States.
Our Vision (the North Star): Make SWCA the best workplace and an industry leader in sustainability, bringing sound science and creative solutions to global environmental challenges while maintaining a dedication to employee-ownership.
We are #OneSWCA. We collaborate, we are #AlwaysLearning, we #NeverSettle and we #GiveBack. We are 100% employee-owned, and we build our success together. It is imperative for the successful candidate to fit SWCA's unique culture. Do you appreciate sustainability and environmental awareness? Is giving back to your community a priority? SWCA is a team of scientists, planners, technical experts, and corporate services professionals committed to our culture.
Our company purpose is to preserve natural and cultural resources for tomorrow while enabling projects that benefit people today. You are invited to be a part of our success story.
What you will accomplish
- Serves as a resource to new, existing, and former employees as it relates to the company’s benefits and wellness programs.
- Identifies and delivers effective and innovative ways to communicate, educate and promote awareness around the company’s total rewards philosophy and programs, including benefits and wellness offerings.
- Acts as primary contact for Benefits Call Center including researching and resolving benefits related issues, with insurance providers and other benefit administrators, in a timely fashion. This includes assisting employees with benefit claims, eligibility, and plan provisions.
- Assists with implementation, administration, and user experience for the in-house Benefits enrollment platform in the Human Resources Information System (HRIS).
- Supports HRIS Manager with system projects, system integration.
- HRIS help-desk support and troubleshooting.
- Administration of electronic employee change forms.
- Research to resolve data variances.
- Performs data reporting and retrieval activities within the HRIS system to monitor benefit program invoicing, benefits data maintenances, and audits using intermediate Excel skills.
- Assists with completing benefits reporting requirements as needed or directed as well as receiving and managing file feeds.
- Develops reports to support the Human Resources team.
- Assists in the development, implementation, and maintenance of program Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to ensure departmental efforts are performed in an effective and efficient manner.
- Assists Compensation department and HRIS Manager with Compensation projects.
Experience and qualifications for success
- Must demonstrate a strong knowledge and understanding of benefits as normally obtained through the completion of a high school diploma or equivalent. Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources or related field, preferred.
- Maintains a current working knowledge of federal, state, and local regulations concerning employee benefit and other HR practices, ensuring departmental policies and procedures meet compliance requirements.
- Must have a working knowledge and understanding of employee benefits administration, including federal, state, and local benefit regulations, as typically demonstrated through one year of related experience in benefits administration.
- Must demonstrate time management and organizational skills to support various benefit programs and retirement plans in a fast-paced environment.
- Must demonstrate excellent customer care and focus to assess customers’ needs.
- Must be able to troubleshoot and resolve employee benefit issues in a timely fashion, while being professional, empathetic, and informative.
- Must be a team player demonstrating strong teamwork and collaborative skills while delivering excellent customer service.
- The ability to work effectively within a team environment, and follow direction, are critical to the success of this role.
- Intermediate Excel skills required.
SWCA is committed to salary equity and salary transparency for all its employees. In alignment with this commitment, SWCA posts good faith pay ranges in all its advertised job postings to promote pay equity and transparency.
An employee in this position can expect a rate of $22.25/hr. to $29.25/hr. Actual pay within this range may depend on experience, qualifications, geographic location, client requirements where applicable, and other factors permitted by law. Regular-status employees are also eligible for performance bonuses. Candidates are also encouraged to consider SWCA’s Total Rewards package, which includes a competitive Benefits package, forward-thinking workplace flexibility, outstanding corporate culture, award-winning career development, and more.
SWCA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and veterans to apply