Payroll Specialist

OPOC.us

Lancaster (OH)

On-site

USD 57,000 - 59,000

Full time

13 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan with employer contribution

Year-end bonus and profit-sharing

Paid time off and holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

Claypool Electric, Inc. in Lancaster, Ohio, is seeking a Payroll Specialist to ensure accurate, timely payroll for a construction workforce and support HR tasks. The role requires experience with prevailing-wage and certified-payroll processes and on-site work five days a week.

Responsibilities include managing payroll from timecard review to final approval, data entry in Vista by Viewpoint, and resolving payroll discrepancies while maintaining confidentiality.

Qualifications

Prior payroll-processing experience.
Strong payroll reconciliation, problem-solving, accuracy, and deadline-management skills.
Ability to learn and consistently follow detailed payroll, compliance, and job-cost processes.
Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive employee information appropriately.
Onsite work in Lancaster, Ohio, five days per week (not remote or hybrid).

Responsibilities

Manage the payroll process from timecard review through final payroll approval.
Process payroll and maintain payroll data in Vista by Viewpoint.
Review hours, overtime, paid time off, reimbursements, deductions, garnishments, and payroll adjustments.
Administer prevailing-wage and certified-payroll requirements for covered construction projects.
Verify wage determinations, labor classifications, rates, fringe obligations, and apprenticeship information; prepare and maintain certified-payroll reports.
Audit employee time and labor distributions for accurate job, project, phase, and cost-code allocation.
Resolve time and payroll exceptions before deadlines and process approved employee changes.
Reconcile payroll, taxes, deductions, benefits, and related general-ledger activity; prepare payroll, job-cost, compliance, and year-end reports.
Respond to employee payroll questions while maintaining confidentiality.
Provide limited HR administrative support, including onboarding records, personnel-file maintenance, benefits changes, and employee-status documentation.

Skills

Payroll processing

Payroll reconciliation

Deadline management

Confidentiality

Learning payroll processes

Attention to detail

Tools

Vista by Viewpoint

Job description

OPOC.us is conducting a search on behalf of a premier client employer for the position of PAYROLL & HR ASSISTANT. The selected candidate will be employed directly by the client, not by OPOC.us. Employer details will be shared during the interview process.

PAYROLL SPECIALIST - Claypool Electric, Inc. | Lancaster, Ohio | Full-Time | 100% Onsite | Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Salary Range: $57,000-$59,400 annually

POSITION SUMMARY

Claypool Electric is seeking a process-driven Payroll Specialist to support accurate, timely, and compliant payroll for a construction workforce. The successful candidate will bring practical payroll experience, strong reconciliation skills, and the ability to learn Claypool's prevailing-wage, certified-payroll, job-cost, and labor-classification processes. The role also provides limited administrative support to Human Resources.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

Manage the payroll process from timecard review through final payroll approval.
Process payroll and maintain payroll data in Vista by Viewpoint.
Review hours, overtime, paid time off, reimbursements, deductions, garnishments, and payroll adjustments.
Administer prevailing-wage and certified-payroll requirements for covered construction projects.
Verify wage determinations, labor classifications, rates, fringe obligations, and apprenticeship information; prepare and maintain certified-payroll reports.
Audit employee time and labor distributions for accurate job, project, phase, and cost-code allocation.
Resolve time and payroll exceptions before deadlines and process approved employee changes.
Reconcile payroll, taxes, deductions, benefits, and related general-ledger activity; prepare payroll, job-cost, compliance, and year-end reports.
Respond to employee payroll questions while maintaining confidentiality.
Provide limited HR administrative support, including onboarding records, personnel-file maintenance, benefits changes, and employee-status documentation.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Prior payroll-processing experience.
Strong payroll reconciliation, problem-solving, accuracy, and deadline-management skills.
Ability to learn and consistently follow detailed payroll, compliance, and job-cost processes.
Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive employee information appropriately.
Ability to work onsite in Lancaster, Ohio, five days per week. This position is not remote or hybrid.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

Three to five years of payroll-processing experience, including construction payroll responsibility.
Hands-on experience with prevailing-wage and certified-payroll processing.
Working knowledge of wage determinations, labor classifications, fringe benefits, apprenticeship reporting, and certified-payroll documentation.
Experience reviewing construction labor distributions and job-cost coding.
Experience using Vista by Viewpoint or a comparable construction ERP; direct Vista payroll experience is strongly preferred.
Payroll experience with an electrical contractor or similar construction employer.
Union, apprenticeship, or multiple-classification payroll experience.
Experience supporting a large, field-based employee population and multiple active jobsites.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The annual salary range is $57,000-$59,400.

Placement within the range will reflect the candidate's payroll experience and depth of construction payroll, Vista by Viewpoint, prevailing-wage, and certified-payroll expertise.