Senior HRIS Specialist

Job Details Level: Senior

Job Location:

Maple Grove Office - Maple Grove, MN 55369

Position Type:
Full Time Education Level: 4 Year Degree Salary Range: $85,000.00 - $ Salary/year

Job Category:
Human Resources

Gradian is an engineering-led, full-line thermal solutions partner serving data center and other mission-critical, commercial, and industrial markets. Headquartered in Maple Grove, MN, with additional facilities across North America, we design and manufacture liquid cooling systems, air handling equipment, heat rejection units, and modular, factory-assembled thermal management solutions.

Gradian was founded through the unification of four complementary, established brands: MAS HVAC, Daedex, DeepCoolAI, and Eco Chillers. Together, we act as a single-source provider, deploying cooling technologies as scalable systems optimized for efficiency, spatial constraints, and overall performance. With a vertically integrated engineering and manufacturing model, we pair rapid design turnaround with precision fabrication, so customers can move faster on complex projects where reliability, timeline, and quality all matter.

At Gradian, you'll work alongside others who get genuinely fired up by complex problems, see your work go from first sketch to job site in weeks, not years, and know that while we're developing the technologies critical for AI infrastructure to scale, our culture remains people-first by design.

It is core to our identity that we operate as one team - driving to win together, energizing others, and building lasting relationships that make the work fun and rewarding.

The Sr. HRIS Specialist is responsible for the administration, configuration, and continuous enablement of the organization's HRIS platform (Paycom), ensuring the system fully supports HR data integrity and end-to-end HR processes. This role partners closely with Talent Management, Recruiting, Payroll, and Benefits to optimize how each function uses Paycom, translating each team's strategic goals into effective system configuration, workflows, and self-service experiences.

This is an execution and enablement role: the Sr. HRIS Specialist is not responsible for setting HR strategy but serves as the subject-matter expert who advises functional leaders on how to best use the system to achieve their goals and deliver a seamless experience for employees and managers.

• HRIS System Administration & Data Integrity
  • Serve as the primary system administrator for Paycom, ensuring accurate configuration across all HR data modules.
  • Maintain data integrity, security, and compliance across employee records, organizational structures, and system permissions.
  • Monitor system updates/releases from Paycom and assess impact on current configuration and workflows.
  • Troubleshoot system issues, manage support tickets, and serve as the primary liaison with Paycom support.
• Talent Management Enablement
  • Partner with the Talent Manager to configure, enhance, and maintain performance management, goal planning, and succession planning tools within Paycom.
  • Advise the Talent Manager on system capabilities and best practices to translate talent strategy into functional workflows.
  • Build and test performance review cycles, goal-tracking workflows, and succession planning frameworks within the system.
• Recruiting & Onboarding Workflow
  • Partner with Recruiting to ensure proper configuration and flow of requisitions from creation through candidate hiring and onboarding.
  • Advise Recruiting leadership on system functionality to optimize requisition approvals, candidate pipelines, and hire-to-onboard handoffs.
  • Troubleshoot workflow breakdowns between recruiting, onboarding, and core HR data.
• Payroll & Benefits Integration
  • Collaborat…