HR Benefits Professional (Retirement/Pension)

Description and Desired Qualifications

• HR Benefits Professional 2 – Englewood, CO
• The challenge? Be at the center of a global leader in full-service engineering, consulting, construction and operations. Our HR Benefits Professional 2 career path provides you with an opportunity to support [Company] benefit projects and initiatives.
• You will provide expertise using your strong background administering defined benefit and defined contribution retirement plans.
• The ideal candidate will have 6 years of directly applicable work experience working closely with HR staff and vendors to resolve employee/retiree questions and concerns.
• You will possess excellent customer service and interpersonal communications skills to effectively interface with internal customers at all levels of the organization.

Our HR Benefits Professional 2 is responsible for the following:

• Respond to all retirement plan inquiries from employees/retirees and internal customers, with a high degree of confidentiality, via our case management tool
• Work closely with HR staff and vendors to resolve employee/retiree questions and concerns
• Serve as subject matter expert on our three pension plans and our retiree medical plan; serve as back-up to our 401(k) plan administrator
• Coordinate annual pension plan audit
• Calculate pension estimates and set up new retirees
• Ensure administrative compliance with applicable laws and regulations

Basic Qualifications

• Proficiency with Word, Outlook, and especially Excel
• Excellent customer service, written and oral communication, organization and interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• 4+ years of benefits administration experience, with a solid understanding of benefit laws and regulations (including ERISA, Internal Revenue Code, etc.) and a strong background in the administration of defined benefit retirement plans
• Bachelor's degree

Preferred Qualifications
In addition to the basic qualifications, the following are also preferred:

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively within and across various departments on complex projects
• Proven track record of successfully resolving complex benefits issues
• Background in administering defined contribution plans
• Demonstrated detail-orientation, self-motivation and ability to multi-task