Human Resources Business Partner (Benefits Administration Focus)

Are you passionate about shaping workplace culture and driving organizational success?

Join Crane Engineering, where our mission is simple yet impactful: to help our customers succeed. To achieve this, we’ve cultivated a dynamic environment that embraces fresh ideas, encourages experimentation, and fosters innovation.

As a Human Resources Business Partner specializing in Benefits Administration, you’ll play a pivotal role in supporting our internal customers, our team members. You’ll lead initiatives that ensure our team thrives by providing exceptional benefits support, driving strategic HR projects, and promoting a culture where everyone can excel.

Crane Engineering is a family-oriented Midwest and East coast based company; with locations in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. As a result of our growth, we have a need for a Human Resources Business Partner who will primarily have benefit administration focus.

What You’ll Do

Benefits Administration: Manage and administer the company’s benefits programs, ensuring compliance, efficiency, and team member satisfaction. Including enrollment, plan communication and acting as a team member resource for questions and information.

Employee Engagement: Serve as a trusted advisor to managers and team members, addressing needs and enhancing the team member experience.

Policy Development: Support the development and communication of HR policies and procedures aligned with company goals.

Strategic HR Initiatives: Collaborate with Human Resources leadership to implement programs that drive organizational growth and team member development.

Data-Driven Decision-Making: Leverage Human Resources metrics to identify trends, solve problems, and recommend improvements.

Payroll: Assists and is an active back-up for all aspects of the payroll process including time tracking and verification.

Actively works with the company’s HRIS (Human Resources Information System).

Proactively seeks new ways to improve Crane from team member’s perspectives.

Participate in new team member onboarding, explaining benefits programs, which includes insurance and other payroll/human resources related matters.

Administers medical, dental, vision, prescription drug, and flexible spending benefit programs as well as administers compliance with Family and Medical Leave Act(s) and COBRA.

Maintains all records related to company benefit plans and compliance with applicable laws.

May perform other duties as assigned.

What We’re Looking For

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.

Minimum 3 years of HR experience, with a strong emphasis on benefits administration.

Knowledge of employment laws and HR best practices.

Maintains confidentiality, remains open to others’ ideas and exhibits willingness to try new things.

Positive and forward thinking.

Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.

Proven ability to build strong relationships at all levels of the organization.

Proven experience working in an HRIS; Paylocity a plus.

Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness and monitors own work to ensure quality.

Adapts to changes in the work environment, manages competing demands and is able to deal with frequent change, delays or unexpected events.

Consistently and effectively responds to management direction and solicits feedback to improve performance.

Ability to make recommendations to effectively resolve problems or issues, by using judgment that is consistent with standards, practices, policies, procedures, regulation or government law.

We Are Winning When

Our expectations are that team members demonstrate our Core Values.

Integrity & Respect – Work with the highest ethical standards, interact openly and directly, honor our commitments and value diversity of styles, roles and perspectives.

Teamwork – Actively collaborate with others to solve problems and create opportunities. Devote ourselves to the team’s and others’ success.

Customer Focus – Make customers the starting point for everything we do. Understanding what they want and expect from us will enable us to earn their loyalty.

Excellence & Innovation – Continuously elevate our expertise and knowledge to strengthen our competitive advantage; and always look for ways to apply breakthrough ideas.

Passion & Energy – Bring passion and energy to our work so that we are “energy givers”, enabling us to own and pursue objectives in spite of obstacles and adversity.

Fun! – Enjoy what we do and have fun with each other – celebrate a job well done… “25% more fun”.

Benefits and Team Member Perks

Ability to thrive in a culture that values growth, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Receive recognition for creating a meaningful impact on the organization’s success.

Work-life balance; generous paid time off program; ability to participate in Flexible Workplace arrangement

Comprehensive health insurance coverage

401k with generous company match

Intuitive health and wellness program that rewards participation

Community involvement and volunteering opportunities

Career advancement through our Career Tracker program

Join Crane Engineering not just in your career, but in the lives of those you work with every day. Apply today and help us inspire innovation, deliver excellence, and achieve success together at: https://www.craneengineering.net/careers

Crane Engineering is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, protected veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. Crane Engineering also participates in E-Verify to verify identity and employment eligibility.