Project Payroll & Timekeeping Lead

MMR Group; Louisiana (MO); On-site; USD 55,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Per Diem $875

Job summary

MMR Group in Cameron, LA, is seeking an experienced Project Payroll & Timekeeping Lead to oversee field timekeeping and payroll on a large construction project.

The role requires ensuring time is captured, reviewed, coded, corrected, and submitted on schedule for each payroll cycle. You will lead the timekeeping team, conduct audits, and coordinate with HR and payroll to resolve discrepancies.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of payroll/timekeeping experience in construction or similar environments.
• Experience supporting a large craft workforce and high-volume weekly payroll.
• Experience leading, supervising, auditing, or training timekeepers.
• Strong understanding of labor reporting, job costing, cost codes, overtime.
• Experience with electronic timekeeping systems and Excel proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and oversight of project timekeeping and payroll activities.
• Review and audit daily/weekly time for accuracy and completeness.
• Verify hours, shifts, overtime, classifications, cost codes, and payroll data.
• Identify missing or erroneous time entries before payroll processing.
• Reconcile timekeeping with rosters, manpower reports, and HR records.
• Coordinate corrections prior to payroll close and track resolutions.
• Train and guide project timekeepers; perform quality-control audits.
• Report payroll accuracy and timekeeping performance to management.

Skills

Payroll timekeeping

Excel proficient

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Tools

Excel

Job description

MMR Project Payroll & Timekeeping Lead - based in Cameron, LA

Location: Cameron, LA

Pay: $45/hour

Per Diem: $875

Work Schedule: 60 hours/week

Company Culture:

At MMR, our most valuable assets are not our buildings or equipment, it is our family of employees with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Our investment in training programs and resources allows our employees to reach both their personal and professional goals. This is evident with MMR receiving numerous awards including “Best Place to Work” and consistently being recognized as one of the top Engineering News Record’s “Annual Specialty Contractors.”

Organization Description:

MMR has served as the industry leader in instrumentation and electrical construction, maintenance, and technical services for over 30 years. Our diverse list of clients allows us the unique ability to work across industry lines in the oil and gas upstream and midstream as well as chemical and petrochemical downstream, industrial manufacturing, power generation, renewable energy, mission critical, heavy commercial, and energy storage sectors. MMR holds the proud distinction of being the largest privately owned “Open Shop” contractor in the United States with over 30 branch offices including global locations in Canada and Mexico. For more information, please visit our website: www.mmrgrp.com.

Job Description:

MMR is seeking an experienced Project Payroll & Timekeeping Lead to provide dedicated oversight of field timekeeping and payroll activities on a large-scale construction project.

This position will serve as the project-level subject matter expert for timekeeping and payroll accuracy. The primary responsibility is to ensure employee time is captured, reviewed, coded, corrected, and submitted accurately and on schedule for each payroll cycle.

This is not a standard timekeeper/data-entry position. The ideal candidate will have significant experience managing or auditing payroll and timekeeping for large craft workforces and will provide leadership, quality control, training, and process improvement for the project’s existing timekeeping team.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide overall leadership and oversight of project timekeeping and payroll activities.
• Review and audit daily and weekly employee time for accuracy and completeness.
• Verify employee hours, shifts, overtime, classifications, job assignments, cost codes, and other payroll-related information.
• Identify missing, duplicate, incorrect, or questionable time entries before payroll processing.
• Reconcile field timekeeping records against employee rosters, manpower reports, transfers, new hires, terminations, and other project records.
• Review payroll exceptions and discrepancies and coordinate corrections prior to payroll close.
• Track payroll corrections through final resolution and maintain visibility of outstanding issues.
• Provide training and day-to-day guidance to project timekeepers.
• Perform quality-control audits of work completed by project timekeepers.
• Identify recurring errors, process gaps, and problem areas and implement corrective measures.
• Coordinate with Project Management, Project Controls, Field Supervision, Human Resources, and Corporate Payroll as required.
• Maintain accurate documentation supporting payroll adjustments and corrections.
• Assist with employee payroll questions and research discrepancies when necessary.
• Provide management with regular reporting on payroll accuracy and timekeeping performance.
• Support project compliance with company payroll policies and applicable wage-and-hour requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of payroll/timekeeping experience, preferably within construction, industrial, electrical, EPC, or similar project environments.
• Demonstrated experience supporting a large craft workforce and high-volume weekly payroll.
• Previous experience leading, supervising, auditing, or training timekeepers strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of construction labor reporting, job costing, cost codes, overtime, shift differentials, employee transfers, and payroll corrections.
• Experience working with electronic timekeeping and payroll systems.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Strong analytical and reconciliation skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• Ability to identify payroll discrepancies and determine root causes rather than simply process corrections.
• Ability to work effectively with field supervision, project management, HR, payroll, and project controls.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to perform accurately under strict payroll deadlines.
• Ability to establish processes and hold team members accountable to established procedures.

MMR Group, Inc. and its affiliated companies ("MMR") is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, veteran status, genetic information or any other legally protected class.