Director, Compensation & Benefits

Key Accountabilities

• Harmonize the disparate compensation and benefits frameworks across the region to establish a single common approach that is fair and equitable and enables both the competitive advantage of the business and the employees feeling of fair treatment.
• Supports the design, development and implementation of new compensation and benefits programs.
• Ensure the ongoing digitalization and automation of workflow to continually improve efficiency and effectiveness.
• Oversees analytical studies in a variety of compensation areas, such as market data and internal equity, competitive pay practices, modeling of union and management proposals and emerging trends.
• Leads and assures the annual salary adjustment and STIP processes across the region applying group and regional principles.
• Maintains and proactively communicates the annual calendar for key compensation and benefits dates including, salary review, open enrollments.
• Ensures that all compensation and benefits communication programs are proactive, well communicated and easy to understand for all employees.
• Partner with other HR team members to develop, execute and communicate key programs to managers, supervisors, and employees;
• Provides advice and counsel to HR and managers regarding market trends, internal equity questions and concerns and hiring and promotion rates.

Benefits Administration

• Oversees the administration of benefits programs including insurance, retirement, flexible spending accounts, and other employee benefits to ensure competitiveness and legal compliance.
• Maintains key benefits data such as FMLA to ensure mangers have accurate information to aid decision making and employee support.
• Coeordinates Benefits sourcing / yearly negotiation.
• Prepares information resources to support employee information process through Managers / HRBP.
• Oversees the administration of the company’s leave of absence program, including all federal and state acts.
• Ensures leave requests follow company leave policies and are in compliance under federal and state guidelines; the company bargaining agreements; and with all relevant US and Canadian legislation.

Team management and third-party relationships

• Build a strategic, best in class benefits function that enables the business to drive results.
• Leads the Compensation and Benefits team and ensures that the services delivered, and the administration of both programs continually meet customer expectations and human resources standards.
• Lead continual improvement of the capability of the team through strong development to industry best standard.
• Use compensation and benefits team as well as own expertise to solve organizational challenges.
• Ensure the strong managing outsourced benefits contracts.
• Develop business cases to consolidate vendors and supplier and review of inhouse/ outsourced services.
• Identify new partnerships to better position Keolis both from a cost management and employee experience.

Start up and mobilization

• Develop and assure compensation and benefits administration for new contract mobilizations.
• Assure the compensation and benefits team delivery of the startup.
• Input to bid development costing and strategy to ensure the necessary factors are taken into account for the proposals.

Physical Demands And Work Environment

• Long periods (potentially exceeding 8 hours per day) of walking, standing, sitting, bending, pushing, pulling, climbing, lifting, balancing, stooping, twisting, squatting, handling materials, repetitive hand-wrist motions, and traversing uneven surfaces;
• Exposure to both extreme heat and cold;
• Exposure to loud noises, fumes, and airborne particles;
• Operators/Drivers may work inside or outside vehicles and may operate vehicles for over 8 hours per day.
• Operations Supervisors and Managers may split their work between an office setting looking at a computer screen/electronic device and active transit field locations driving in a vehicle.
• Maintenance Employees may be exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals in a ventilated maintenance shop and may work with personal computers, laptops, electronic hand-held devices, complex electrical schematics, diagnostic software and testing devices, and other heavy machinery.
• Office Staff may work indoors in air-conditioned or well-ventilated facilities, including offices and cubicle spaces equipped with a telephone and computer and may entail typing or looking at a computer screen.
• In addition to the above demands inherent in every role, the following roles may entail unique physical demands, including: