HR Administrator

HR Administrator - Centreville, MD

About the Company and HR Administrator Opportunity:

• CFS is partnering with a new client, a wholesale distributor of plants on the Eastern shore. Due to growth, they are looking to hire an HR Administrator to assist with admin support, benefits, and payroll. This person will work with other team members on site, but will be in charge of all HR for this Maryland location.
• This is a contract to hire position. Great opportunity for someone to build upon their HR skills at a diverse company
• Company has a national presence but is family owned and boasts a laid back casual environment
• Schedule is 100% in office in Centreville, MD. Monday - Friday, 7am-3:30pm
  • Potential for overtime during busy season
• Reports to the Corporate HR Director

Job Duties of the HR Administrator:

• Process weekly payroll for 150 employees through Paychex
• Acts as a resource for Facility Payroll/HR contacts to ensure their understanding and compliance with benefits and HR policies and regulations.
  • Maintains Time and attendance in Paychex.
  • Resolves payroll discrepancies by collecting and analyzing information.
  • Provides payroll information by answering questions and requests.
  • Maintains employee confidence and protects payroll operations by keeping information confidential.
  • Distribute weekly the checks accordingly.
• Check in on housing for employees to ensure they are housing and employees are in compliance with OSHA regulations
• Oversees benefit programs include but not limited to: medical/dental, income protection, short-term disability, long-term disability, workers' compensation, leave of absence, claims resolution, change reporting, and communicating benefit information to employees.
• Acts as liaison between employees, insurance providers and to resolve benefit related problems and ensure effective utilization of plans and positive employee relations.
• Reviews enrollment forms for accuracy and coordinates enrollment with third-party administrator.
• Coordinates health, life and disability insurance enrollments and communicates with service providers.
• Conducts new hire orientation.
• Maintains personnel files in compliance with applicable legal requirements.
• Keeps employee records up-to-date by processing employee status changes in timely fashion and ensures proper approvals. Records related to hiring, transferring, promoting and terminating.
• Prepares paperwork required to place employees on payroll and establishes personnel file.
• Maintains human resource information system records and compiles reports from the database.
• Perform other related duties as required and assigned

Qualifications for the HR Administrator:

• 2+ years' benefits/HR experience required
• Bachelors degree in related field a plus
• Ability to speak Spanish a major plus. You do not NEED Spanish but most of the employees speak Spanish as their first language. Candidates who do not speak Spanish must be comfortable frequently using Google translator
• H2A experience a plus
• Familiarity with COBRA, ERISA, FMLA and related state and federal regulations