Founded more than 80 years ago, OK Foods has grown from a livestock and poultry feed manufacturer to join one of the world's leading chicken producers, Bachoco.

Bachoco OK Foods produces the highest quality chicken products for the U.S. market. Currently, the Bachoco OK Foods family includes more than 4,000 team members who are dedicated to consistently producing high-quality chicken products and nourishing people around the world.

Bachoco OK Foodsis seeking a Benefits Specialist for the Fort Smith, AR location.

Summary:Provides guidance, assistance, interpretation, and explanation to plan members concerning various employee benefit plans.Answers employees' questions and records employee enrollment in benefit programs by performing the following duties.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Subject matter expert for benefits programs such as retirement, health, life, and disability plans. Responsible for communication of benefit plans to new hires, annual open enrollment, plan changes, monthly on-site breakroom presence, and other benefit related communication/education campaigns throughout the year.
• Responsible for monthly distribution new hire benefit enrollment forms. Follows up with employees throughout the month and confirms all enrollments are completed by deadline for each eligible employee. Data entry of new enrollments into HR system.
• Responsible for processing mid-year qualifying event changes to benefits coverage.
• Enters benefits-related data into computerized human resources information system (HRIS).
• Instructs insurance companies, carriers, providers, and third-party administrators outside the company concerning new claims and changes to plans. Notifies these providers of problems or issues and suggests solutions.
• Investigates and resolves questions regarding payment for health care services by contacting health care professionals and other service providers, benefit plan providers, and employees.
• Produces reports in Excel reflecting benefit enrollments, benefit deductions, arrears, eligibility, plan participation trends, etc. to assist with financial, audit, and trend requests.
• Reviews reports from plan providers to verify accuracy and resolve differences.
• Maintains files of enrollment forms and other documentation.
• Knowledgeable of Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements and regulations.
• Verifies eligibility for FMLA/LOA policies. Refers employees to third party leave manager and explains the leave process to employees.
• Assists FMLA Coordinator as needed with entry of line passes for LOA, application of vacation in timecard system, responding to updates/requests from third party leave manager, sending out return to work letters, collecting payments for insurance while on LOA, and confirming that intermittent leave is being taken appropriately.

Supervisory Responsibilities:This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university; or a minimum of two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Language Skills:Ability to read and comprehend instructions, short correspondence, memos, benefit plan documentation. Ability to write professional business correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Mathematical Skills:Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:Occasionally,will be required to travel short distances to other company locations in the area. Must have a valid driver's license and be able to qualify for the company driver program.PHR or SHRM-CP preferred.

Reasoning Ability:Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Computer Skills:To perform this job successfully an individual should have experience using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), ability to manipulate Excel reports, sometimes from multiple systems, using Excel functions such as vlookup, pivot tables, formatting, etc., knowledge of e-mail/calendar management software.

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; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception 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.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

An Equal Opportunity Employer to include women, minorities, veterans and persons with disabilities.

*Notice to Third Party Recruitment Agencies:

Please note that Bachoco OK Foods and its subsidiaries do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of an executed Recruitment Services Agreement, there will be no obligation to any referral compensation or recruiter fee.

In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without an agreement, Bachoco OK Foods and its subsidiaries shall explicitly reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, shall be deemed the property of Bachoco OK Foods.