Senior Multi-State Construction Payroll Specialist

SkyWater Search Partners; Belle Plaine (MN); On-site; USD 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Strong benefits package

Hands-on training

Career growth opportunities

Onsite in Jordan, MN

Job summary

SkyWater Search Partners is assisting a specialty contractor with a fully onsite Senior Payroll Specialist role based in Jordan, Minnesota. You will own weekly multi-state payroll for field teams, handling time reviews, deductions, fringe benefits, and job-cost coding to ensure accurate, timely pay.

The role emphasizes solving problems, system improvements, and building expertise in prevailing wages, certified payroll, and payroll systems such as Arcoro and SharePoint.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of hands-on, full-cycle payroll experience in multiple states.
• Strong attention to detail and good judgment.
• Natural curiosity and resourcefulness to research unfamiliar issues.
• Comfort working across payroll, accounting, timekeeping, onboarding, spreadsheet, and Microsoft 365 systems.
• Ability to manage recurring deadlines and competing priorities within a weekly payroll cycle.
• Strong Excel and data-management skills.
• Clear, respectful communication with employees, field leaders, project teams, vendors, and company leadership.
• Professional discretion and a strong commitment to confidentiality, accuracy, and reliable follow-through.

Responsibilities

• Manage full-cycle weekly payroll for a multi-state workforce, including time review, overtime, deductions, garnishments, benefit withholdings, per diem, reimbursements, and payroll adjustments.
• Partner with project managers, superintendents, accounting, and field employees to resolve time, pay, wage, fringe, tax, and job-coding questions.
• Maintain accurate employee pay rates, multi-state tax settings, deductions, workers’ compensation codes, job phases, and payroll data.
• Learn and own prevailing-wage and certified-payroll administration, including wage determinations, fringe requirements, reporting, and documentation.
• Manage payroll-tax filings, reconciliations, and multi-state payroll matters after training.
• Prepare payroll journal entries and supporting schedules and assist with payroll-related GL reconciliations and audits.
• Coordinate payroll-related onboarding records, I-9 and E-Verify administration, employee changes, benefit deductions, and leave processes.
• Serve as a key administrator of Arcoro onboarding workflows while supporting payroll, accounting, timekeeping, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, and other workforce systems.
• Identify recurring errors, inefficient processes, and opportunities for stronger controls; document procedures.
• Help create payroll processes that are accurate, scalable, well-documented, and less dependent on institutional knowledge.

Job description

SkyWater Search Partners is assisting a specialty contractor with a fully onsite Senior Payroll Specialist role based in Jordan, Minnesota. You will own weekly multi-state payroll for field teams, handling time reviews, deductions, fringe benefits, and job-cost coding to ensure accurate, timely pay.

The role emphasizes solving problems, system improvements, and building expertise in prevailing wages, certified payroll, and payroll systems such as Arcoro and SharePoint.