# Specialist, Total Rewards, Ford Energy **Company**: Ford Energy **Location**: Glendale, KY **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $86,600-$144,900 **Category**: Human Resources **Industry**: Automotive **Apply**: https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/74279?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/specialist-total-rewards-ford-energy-3aa2aec1-31c/ ## Description Ford Energy is a newly formed, wholly-owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Company dedicated to accelerating U.S. energy independence. Leveraging Ford’s century of manufacturing excellence and world-class battery energy storage systems (BESS) technology, Ford Energy designs, manufactures, and services grid-scale and commercial DC battery energy storage systems (BESS). The Specialist, Total Rewards, working under general direction, is responsible for supporting Total Rewards projects, such as compensation studies, job evaluations, etc., with fairness and consistency in a timely manner. This role will conduct daily operations including investigations, mediations, and administration of company policies and procedures related to compensation and benefits programs. ## Responsibilities - Benefit Expertise & Compliance: Become the go-to expert for all company benefit offerings, ensuring their accurate and compliant delivery. - Direct Employee Support: Serve as the primary on-site resource, guiding employees through benefit questions, enrollment, and complex issue resolution, including vendor liaison. - Engaging Communication & Education: Develop and deliver compelling communications, presentations, and orientations to maximize employee understanding and engagement with their benefit programs. - Enrollment & Administration: Oversee new hire and annual benefit enrollment processes for health, retirement, disability, and leave programs. - Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with the Company’s global Total Rewards team to ensure accurate benefit communications and related processes. - Strategic Analysis & Improvement: Analyze benefit utilization trends, contribute to process improvements, benchmarking, and participate in broader HR initiatives and special projects. - Short-Term Incentive Administration: Utilize data analytics to track effectiveness of the incentive program, evaluating impact on key manufacturing performance indicators, employee engagement, and overall facility performance. - Fair and Equitable Program Administration: Manage hourly pay structures, including partnering with the Company’s Total Rewards to team benchmarking competitive hourly pay rates and application of Cost-of-Living Adjustments (COLA). ## Qualifications - Education & Experience: Bachelor's degree in HR, Business, or a related field, coupled with 3+ years of HR experience, preferably in benefits administration supporting hourly/manufacturing employees. - Benefits & HR Expertise: Strong understanding of benefits administration, regulatory compliance (ACA, ERISA, COBRA, HIPAA, FMLA), and general HR processes. - Technical Proficiency: Demonstrated proficiency with HRIS systems (e.g., Workday) and Microsoft Office applications, with strong analytical and data analysis skills. - Project Management & Collaboration: Proven project management and organizational skills, with experience partnering effectively with cross-functional teams and external vendors. - Communication & Confidentiality: Excellent communication and problem-solving abilities, with a demonstrated capacity to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information with discretion. ## Benefits - Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage - Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more - Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more - Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases - Tuition assistance - Established and active employee resource groups - Paid time off for individual and team community service - A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day - Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time. For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - HR - Benefits Administration - Compensation - Compliance - Workday - Microsoft Office - Analytical skills - Project Management - Communication - Confidentiality ### Nice to have - Master’s degree in Human Resources - Prior HR experience in manufacturing - Experience with benefit vendor systems and integrations - Demonstrated ability to coordinate resources across multiple functions - Strong interpersonal, negotiation, and conflict management skills --- Source: [Apply at efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com](https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/74279?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)