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AAR is an independent provider of aviation services to commercial and government customers in over 100 countries. Founded in 1951 and based in Wood Dale, Illinois, AAR’s aftermarket expertise and award-winning businesses including Parts Supply, Repair & Engineering, Integrated Solutions, and Expeditionary Services can be combined or leveraged separately to help customers increase efficiency and reduce costs while maintaining high levels of quality, service, and safety. We are a trusted partner to airlines, militaries, and OEMs, delivering competitiveness so they can focus on transporting passengers, cargo, and parts around the world. Focused on Doing It Right®, AAR is the place of choice to build an inspiring career.
The Worldwide Aviation Support Services (WASS) program, an AAR business, headquartered in Rockledge, FL, provides global, world-class expeditionary and conventional aviation solutions to the US Department of State Air Wing.
SUMMARY
The Total Rewards Specialist will provide a high level of support to the Human Resource team by working closely with HR team-mates to support employees in a knowledgeable, timely, resourceful, and professional manner. This position carries out responsibilities in the following areas: compensation and benefits, HRIS, compliance, and policy development and maintenance.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Collaborates with the HR team to conduct compensation analyses, inclusive of recommendations for new hires, internal promotions, counteroffers, and job evaluations while reinforcing the Programs overall compensation philosophy.
- Participates in compensation surveys, assists with external market analysis and internal equity evaluations.
- Partner in compensation projects and special reports. -Actively contribute to developing new reports, job descriptions, spreadsheets, and databases related to HR and Total Rewards.
- Reviews company compensation and benefits policies to ensure compliance with state and federal regulations and contractual requirements.
- Research day-to-day inquiries and responds to employee benefits questions from employees, partners with other HR team members for reporting requests, and runs required reports.
- Maintain Leave of Absence and medical personnel files to ensure accuracy, compliance, and confidentiality.
- Maintain the WASS HR relocation program.
- Administer various employee health benefit programs such as medical, dental, and vision for both CONUS and OCONUS employees.
- Serves as contact point for interpretation of benefits and compensation policies and practices.
- Administer various employee leave programs such as FMLA, Personal Leave, Workmans Compensation, Long Term and Short Term Disabilities and rotation cycles.
- Administer discretionary benefit plans such as Legal, EAP and Flexible & Health Spending Accounts.
- Administer the WASS Education Assistance Program.
- Administer the WASS Employee Referral Program.
- Provide guidance for and administration of 401K savings plan.
- Collaborate with Corporate Benefits to administer audits as requested.
- Ensure accuracy and tracking for requested salary changes through the approval process.
- Responsible for communicating and processing employee benefits during orientation, annual open enrollment, and qualifying events.
- Maintain WASS Job Descriptions and ensure accuracy and compliance with contractual requirements.
- Assists in the development, coordination, administration, and support of the Total Rewards Program.
- Manage Defense Base Act (DBA) Workers Compensation program, to include but not limited to internal/external notification of injury claims; completion of LS202 DOL; completion of APRISE injury reporting; collaboration with DBA vendor and assigned company representative; facilitation of required documentation and employee file maintenance.
- Collaborate with DBA vendor to arrange employee travel and follow-up on allowed reimbursement and update DBA Access database.
- Perform other duties as assigned.LI-HD1
