Marilynn Thurtle

Overview

years of professional experience

Costco Wholesale Corp

Issaquah, WA

09.2015 - Current

Assisting 200K+ employees with benefit changes, corrections, while educating employees on their benefit options and packages
Processing Measurement Period documents and calculations
Developing slides, presentations and facilitating Benefits Orientations for 3 - 50 new Home Office employees weekly
Training new/incoming benefit coordinators
Creation of Google slides and presenting to 700+ payroll clerks for the monthly Payroll Training Conference Calls
Presenting annual Benefit Plan Changes to 1000+ Home Office employees
Project manager for the Health and Wellness annual initiative
Working with our benefit suppliers, organizing and presenting H&W initiatives at monthly conference calls to 700+ locations, and updating and maintaining the Health and Wellness Toolkit Google site
Organizing all Home Office health initiatives, such as flu shot clinics, mammogram van, and the Home Office Health Fair
Completing 15-20 state and federal health care request forms weekly
Reporting up to 200 Medicare audits and up to 500 court ordered medical support notices to our third-party administrators in a month
Must work within the state and federal compliance metrics
Managing inventory of benefit supplies

Costco Wholesale

09.1986 - Current

01.1997 - 01.2015

Answered employee questions regarding payroll, personnel, and benefits
Processed Payroll for 400+ EEs and 50+ managers and supervisors
Entered data into the computer systemsSAP, CIMS and WorkForce
Maintained personnel files, tracking attendance, counseling notices, and performance reviews
Managed worker’s compensation claims and leave of absences for 400+ employees and 50+ managers and supervisors
Presented orientations for up to 75 employees at a time, sometimes twice weekly during seasonal hiring
Maintained expense reportsAMEX statements, budgeted expenses with a budget of $75K or more per period
Arranged for purchase, repair and maintenance of office equipment while staying within $4K budget.

01.1987 - 01.2013

Chairperson in conjunction with other duties -, Reviewed all incidents and injuriesincluded employee and member incidentsanalyzed root causes
Collected information, completed required documentation and forms for employee and member incidents
Entered incident information into the respective sites: OSHA Log, CIMS and Member Claims
Maintained contact with all parties involved in incidents: members, employees, management, Central and insurance providers
Acted as company liaison for insurance providers and attorneys
Participated in Safety Conference Calls
Distributed Safety supplies and documents each period
Completed all required safety inspections of the warehouse and parking lot
Created PowerPoint presentations to present in manager’s meeting
Organized and facilitated Safety Week annually

American Military University

Dixie State College

2023

2020

Proficient in: Microsoft Office Suite, Google Suite, AS400, Lawson, Kronos, SAP, CIMS, Citrix, BLI