HR Consultant III, Disability Management

About This Role

This role is responsible for independently managing disability cases, facilitating return-to-work processes, and providing expert guidance on disability management policies. You will serve as a resource for employees and management regarding ADA/ADAAA, FMLA, LOA, and workers' compensation.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the return to work process for employees with injuries or illness, independently, and with disability job accommodation requests.
• Process ADA/ADAAA, FMLA, LOA, and workers' compensation cases.
• Provide case management, with some guidance, and serve as a resource to employees, supervisors, and managers to modified duty, disability leave, and workers' compensation.
• Work with insurance companies and provide case chronology for legal review or create documentation for labor grievances, investigations, disputes, fit for duty, and employee issues related to disability management (DM).
• Maintain employee database systems.
• Create reports, metrics, and FMLA/LOA data and conduct analyses to identify DM trends.
• Conduct education and training sessions to stakeholders about DM policies and procedures, with some guidance.
• Utilize comprehensive knowledge to educate others about integration and alignment with other benefits programs.
• Follow DM policies, procedures, and practices to meet legal, regulatory, and internal compliance, and federal and state laws.
• Develop strategies, independently, taking action to minimize and mitigate risk.
• Support the development and deployment of strategies, programs, policies, and procedures with HR Centers of Excellence and business stakeholders.
• Pursue self-development and effective relationships with others, including mentoring team members.
• Complete work assignments by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area to generate creative solutions.
• Conduct company human resources support activities by providing support to internal and external stakeholders on diverse HR specialties.
• Assist in the implementation of organizational change efforts.
• Perform employee and/or labor relations activities by conducting research and providing recommendations and assistance on employment related regulations.
• Assist with HR investigation efforts by collecting and analyzing data, conducting interviews, and determining action steps for resolution.
• Support reporting of Company employee information and external benchmarks.
• Support HR compliance by staying abreast of regulatory changes.

Requirements

• Comprehensive knowledge of ADA/ADAAA, FMLA, LOA, and workers' compensation processes
• Knowledge of federal and state HR laws