Section Manager, Benefits at Bath Iron Works – Bath, Maine

Section Manager, Benefits

US-ME-Bath

Req ID: 2026-5072
Type: Regular Full-Time
Remaining Positions: 1
Post End Date: 4/17/2026
Category: Human Resources
Salary Grade: F
Shift: 1st

Overview

The Section Manager, Benefits Administration is responsible for health and welfare benefits, leave administration, and retirement benefits. This position collaborates closely with other HR functions including Wellbeing, Employee Services, Payroll, and Occupational Health. Operating under the BIW Business Operating System (BOS), the Section Manager, Benefits Administration ensures compliance with safety, quality, and performance standards while coordinating with other key stakeholders to meet overall milestones.

Key Responsibilities

Safety Leadership:

• Collaborate with onsite Wellbeing team to develop and support programs that keep employees safe and engaged.

Project Execution:

• Manage day-to-day operations of high-volume benefits department including administration, walk-in services and call center.
• Review and interpret health care data to assist in decisions related to vendor management.

Benefits Administration Management:

• Manage an experienced benefits team that is responsible for health, welfare, retirement and leave management.

Training and Development:

• Partner with training team to deliver new hire benefits briefings.
• Train and develop benefits administration team members.

Team Collaboration and Communication:

• Manage vendors (health, retirement, and leave management) in order to maximize benefit value to BIW and its employees.
• Oversee the communications to employees related to benefits (timeline, content development, effective messaging and delivery).
• Represent benefits in union negotiations, including but not limited to, document preparation, responding to union request for information and serving as benefits liaison at negotiations.

Continuous Improvement:

• Collaborate on benefits suite offerings with union leadership to promote quality and cost awareness, education, and consumerism.

Responsibilities

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Human Resources, Economics, or a health care field is required.

Qualifications

• Five (5) years of related human resources experience preferred.
• Three to five (3-5) years of benefits administration experience in health, welfare, retirement, and leave management is required, preferably in a manufacturing setting.
• Three (3) years of experience in a supervisory role with direct reports is required.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required, as well as the ability to interact in a positive and approachable manner with all levels of personnel.
• Ability to analyze and develop creative solutions to a wide variety of employee health and welfare issues.
• Must be self-motivated, detail-oriented and effective in leading a team.
• Strong organizational and time management skills are required.
• Effective project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects, ensure team meets project requirements and deliverables while meeting deadlines throughout the scope of the project are required.
• Fully knowledgeable about HIPAA and other confidentiality laws regulating healthcare data is required.
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office tools is required.
• Flexibility to adjust work tasks and work schedule as needed to accomplish objectives is required.
• Must be able to work onsite in order to effectively manage a team.
• Maintain a CAN DO attitude.