Payroll Specialist

Paper Transport; De Pere (WI); On-site; USD 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Paper Transport is actively seeking a Payroll Specialist to ensure accurate, timely weekly driver pay across multiple states. You’ll partner with Operations, handle driver inquiries, and help keep UKG-based payroll processes running smoothly in a fast-paced transportation setting.

The role requires an associate degree and strong detail-oriented, communications skills, with preferred experience in driver payroll and multi-state payroll operations.

Qualifications

• Associate degree in business or related field.
• Experience with UKG and/or TMW preferred.
• Detail-oriented with ability to handle confidential information.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Process accurate weekly activity-based payroll for 850+ drivers across multiple states.
• Review, validate, and reconcile inputs from UKG, TMW, and workflows.
• Support Operations to resolve exceptions and process corrections.
• Respond to driver payroll questions by phone, email, and in person.
• Maintain payroll process documentation and internal controls.
• Garnishments, tax levies, and wage-hour compliance processing.

Skills

UKG/TMW experience

Driver payroll

Multi-state payroll

Payroll certification

Excel proficiency

Detail-oriented

Communication skills

Payroll policy knowledge

Tax/garnishments knowledge

Education

Associate degree in business or related field

Tools

UKG

TMW

Job description

Want to experience a company culture where we strive every day to make PTI a great place to work? Then join the PTI team! As a Payroll Specialist, you’ll play an important role in helping ensure our professional drivers are paid accurately and on time each week. This role combines attention to detail, problem-solving, and strong communication as you partner with Operations, support driver payroll questions, and help keep payroll processes running smoothly in a fast-paced transportation environment.

Essential Functions:

• Process accurate weekly activity-based payroll for 850+ professional drivers across multiple states, including W-2 and 1099 pay groups.
• Review, validate, and reconcile payroll inputs from UKG, TMW, and related operational workflows.
• Partner with Operations to resolve exceptions, clarify driver activity, and support timely payroll corrections.
• Respond to driver payroll questions promptly and professionally by phone, email, and in-person conversation.
• Use sound judgment to research issues, make timely decisions, and elevate concerns when needed.
• Maintain clear payroll process documentation and support strong internal controls.
• Build expertise in UKG to support payroll processing, system administration, reporting, and process improvement.
• Collaborate with leadership on new or changing pay packages as the business evolves.
• Process garnishments, tax levies, child support orders, and related payroll deductions.
• Support compliance with applicable federal, state, and local payroll, tax, and wage and hour requirements.

Skills Required for Success

• UKG and/or TMW experience preferred.
• Driver payroll, multi-state payroll, or transportation industry experience preferred.
• Payroll certification preferred.
• Strong Excel skills, including lookups, formulas, reconciliations, and data review.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Clear, professional communication skills with the ability to explain payroll information to drivers and internal partners.
• Comfortable presenting payroll information during weekly driver orientation.
• Sound judgment, discretion, and ability to handle confidential information.
• Working knowledge of tax, garnishment, and federal/state wage and hour requirements.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Minimum of an associate degree in business or a related field required.

A Dedicated Transportation Partner of the Green Bay Packers

At Paper Transport, we’re not just building careers, we’re building community. As a Dedicated Transportation Partner of the Green Bay Packers, we bring the same passion, teamwork, and commitment to excellence on the road as the Packers do on the field. Join a team that’s driving forward with purpose, pride, and a winning spirit.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand, talk, and hear. The employee is constantly required to use hands and fingers to feel, handle, or operate objects, tools, or controls and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

Information included in this job description does not necessarily represent a complete list of responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, or working conditions for the job. While this is intended to accurately reflect the current role, management reserves the right to revise the job or require other duties as circumstances change.