Payroll Administrator

Build your Payroll Career in Construction

Join a collaborative payroll team supporting a large, complex construction workforce. In this hands-on administrative role, you will own key parts of the weekly payroll cycle, solve employee pay issues, support certified payroll and prevailing-wage reporting, and help strengthen payroll processes and controls. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced payroll professional who enjoys detailed work, responsive service, and continuous improvement.

• Process full-cycle weekly payroll, from time-entry review and payroll staging through balancing and post-payroll activities.
• Review payroll inputs and outputs for accuracy, investigate discrepancies, and complete corrections promptly.
• Prepare payments and adjustments for travel expenses, paid time off, shortages, and other payroll items.
• Respond to employee and stakeholder questions with accuracy, professionalism, and timely follow-through.
• Maintain payroll records, reports, data imports and exports, deduction overrides, and audit-ready documentation.
• Prepare and submit certified payroll reports and support documentation according to contract requirements.
• Support federal and state payroll tax activities, including Forms 940 and 941, unemployment reporting, and federal tax deposits.
• Apply current wage-and-hour, payroll tax, and payroll record-retention requirements.
• Partner with Payroll, Human Resources, Accounting, operations, and branch teams to resolve issues and improve processes.
• Contribute to special projects, reporting enhancements, system improvements, and cross-training initiatives.

• 3+ years of hands-on, full-cycle payroll experience.
• Working knowledge of federal, state, and local payroll requirements, including FLSA and payroll tax rules.
• Strong Excel skills and comfort working with payroll reports, reconciliations, imports, and exports.
• Demonstrated accuracy, analytical judgment, discretion, and ability to protect confidential information.
• Ability to prioritize multiple deadlines in a weekly payroll environment and communicate effectively across the organization.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

• Construction payroll experience, particularly in commercial, residential, or multifamily environments.
• Experience with certified payroll, prevailing-wage requirements, worker classifications, and supporting documentation.
• Experience with JD Edwards Enterprise One or another enterprise payroll system.
• Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) certification.
• Bilingual English/Spanish communication skills.

• Meaningful ownership of a critical weekly payroll process.
• Exposure to complex construction payroll, certified payroll, payroll taxes, and job-related reporting.
• Collaboration with experienced Payroll, Human Resources, Accounting, and operations professionals.
• Opportunity to improve processes, strengthen controls, and expand enterprise payroll-system knowledge.

• Able to perform work indoors in an office environment.
• Able to work in an office environment with moderate pressure to meet deadlines.
• Able to work overtime to meet established deadlines.

• Able to communicate orally in a clear manner.
• Able to hear oral communication either in person or on equipment such as telephone or mobile phone.
• Able to operate a personal computer, either desktop or laptop, for extended periods of time creating, composing and reviewing documents and spreadsheets.
• Able to operate office equipment, including telephone, mobile phone, photocopier, fax machine, scanner and calculator.

This position has no supervisory responsibilities for direct reports

* We are an Equal Opportunity Employer*