Responsibilities

Do you want to be a part of something extraordinary? Meritage Home’s is a Top 5 builder dedicated to building energy-efficient homes and communities. We are looking for future leaders that can help Meritage continue to grow, set our future strategy and solve our business challenges. Our internship program is designed to help you not only understand what we do but how and why we do it. If you are looking for an experience where you can immerse yourself in a business, establish a network, learn, develop your skills, and have some fun, then this is the place for you.

The Total Rewards Intern will attend regular meetings to discuss the role of compensation and impact to organization/employees, inclusive of areas: base, variable, sales, long-term, other compensation. Attend regular Benefits meetings to discuss the role of benefits and impact to organization/employees, inclusive of areas: health and welfare, retirement, well-being, ancillary, and other benefits. Attend meetings to discuss the total rewards function overall inclusive of strategy and impact to organization/employees providing career coaching, and overall experience of internship.

The stuff you will do:

• The Total Rewards Intern will work within the Total Rewards team, to support Benefits, Compensation, and People Operations (HR).
• Research best practices and recommendations for enhanced benefit offerings
• Research and build campaigns to highlight benefit offerings and increase employee engagement
• Assist with coordination, content collection and maintenance of the Benefits Hub on Mertiage.Net, the company intranet.
• Create standard operating procedures (SOPs) on benefit processes (funding, Life Event approvals in system, billing, etc.)
• Review of content in Benefits Hub and Employee Handbook for accuracy
• Assist in facilitating Health Fair and project plan for spend of wellness budget
• Create and Tuition and Leave spreadsheets; creating new documents to use as master files.
• Streamline TR communication campaigns, audits, and reporting.
• Creating compliance calendar for Benefits and including renewal.
• Support with job leveling work, inclusive of job description inventory and creation.
• May look to support development of compensation reporting.
• Support the administrative efforts for various projects
• Support the department in the preparation and analytics of different compensation efforts and total rewards reports
• Learn our core values and why they drive everything we do
• Translate classroom experience into practical application during the internship
• Participate in cross-functional projects involving other interns and business leaders centered around current business challenges
• Present real-world business recommendations to senior leadership that can help drive our strategy
• Write a paper focusing on the experience or another assigned topic

Qualifications

Need to be awesome at:

• Operating with integrity
• Always assuming positive intent and bringing passion to work
• Having a desire to “win” and get stuff done
• Fostering an inclusive environment
• Asking questions, seeking to understand and making recommendations to improve
• Wanting to always innovate, think of new ideas and solve for bigger problems
• Being relentless in the pursuit of excellence; will never “settle”
• Actively enrolled in a degree program from a regionally accredited university or college

Preferred:

• Experience working in a team environment on cross team or functional projects
• Experience dealing with ambiguity
• Experience in a leadership capacity or role and influencing peers

Success Factors

• Connects quickly to others; persuasive and motivating
• Proactive; self-motivated with a competitive drive to get things done
• Strong follow-up skills; conscientious, thorough, & precise
• Extroverted, poised and polished

Relevant College Coursework/Majors:

• Communications
• Business Administration
• Project Management
• Human Resources

Overview

Are you looking for an incredible career opportunity? Then Meritage Homes is the place for you! From the homes we build to the careers we offer, we believe in quality. Meritage Homes is the ENERGY STAR® Partner of The Year in Sustained Excellence for being a leader in protecting the environment and advancing energy efficiency in homebuilding. We are looking for candidates who are excited about furthering their careers, as well as being a part of an organization that helps people live happier, healthier lives. With over 150,000 homes built, Meritage Homes is looking for professionals who are self-starters and want to help our organization grow by providing new and innovative ideas.

When joining Meritage Homes, you and your career can benefit in several ways, including:

• A work environment that encourages creativity and innovative ideas from every level
• An organization that lives by its core values everyday
• Team atmosphere where every individual is considered a vital asset
• State of the art technology to provide an optimal working environment
• A competitive pay structure
• Strong benefits
• Flexibility in work-life integration
• Team-oriented environment where all individuals play an integral role in the company
• Opportunity to further your career in a growing national organization
• Maintain a competitive drive to be the best

Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, we’ve built more than 180,000 homes in multiple markets across the country. We believe that every family deserves to live better, smarter and healthier. It’s why we’re setting the new standard in home construction & design and leading the way in energy-efficient homes. For the employees at Meritage Homes that make this all possible, we believe in having the same standards of quality and reward that make for a challenging and enjoyable career.