Team Lead, Time Administration

Oil Authority; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 138,000 - 206,000; Full time

Job summary

Chevron is seeking a Team Lead, Time Administration to supervise timekeeping across the U.S. and Canada for a diverse workforce.

You will lead a team of roughly 10–12 professionals and contractors, ensuring accurate, compliant time data and strong collaboration with Payroll, Labor Relations, Legal, and IT stakeholders. The role involves partnering with Digital/IT on Workday/time management enhancements, supporting system deployments, and driving continuous process improvements within time

Qualifications

• +5 years of experience in time administration, payroll, HR operations, or similar.
• Knowledge of timekeeping processes, payroll controls, and applicable compliance requirements.
• Ability to interpret policies, labor agreements, and regulatory requirements.
• Proven ability to lead, coach, and build capability in a team.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and risk assessment skills.
• Experience guiding escalations and communicating guidance clearly to stakeholders.
• Experience partnering across functions to improve processes and controls.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead Time Administration operations for U.S. and Canada employee populations.
• Manage and coach a team of approximately 10–12 employees and contractors.
• Ensure time and attendance data is captured and processed in compliance.
• Serve as escalation point for complex time, leave, payroll issues.
• Provide expert consultation to Payroll, HR, Legal, and business stakeholders.
• Partner with IT on Workday and time management enhancements.
• Lead or support time and payroll workstreams for system deployments.
• Drive continuous improvement across time administration processes.
• Support talent management and workforce planning for the team.

Skills

Time administration

Leadership

Payroll knowledge

Timekeeping systems

Compliance

Communication

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Tools

Workday Time Management

Crew Time Management

Job description

Total Number of Openings

1

Chevron is accepting online applications for the Team Lead, Time Administration position through 09, 25, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. CST.

Chevron is seeking a Team Lead, Time Administration to lead U.S. and Canada time administration operations for a complex, multi-population workforce. This role is accountable for ensuring the accurate, compliant, and timely capture, validation, and processing of time and attendance data across multiple states, unions, labor agreements, work schedules, employee populations, and timekeeping platforms.

The successful candidate will provide day-to-day leadership to a geographically dispersed team of time administration employees and contractors, serve as an escalation point for complex time and attendance issues, and act as a trusted functional advisor to Payroll, Labor Relations, Legal, Total Rewards, Health and Medical, Digital/IT, HR stakeholders, business leaders, supervisors, and employees.

Responsibilities for this position may include but are not limited to:

• Lead Time Administration operations for U.S. and Canada employee populations, including exempt, non-exempt, hourly, shipping/Mariner, expatriate, represented, and non-represented employees.
• Manage and coach a team of approximately 10–12 employees and contractors, reinforcing standard work practices, quality expectations, performance accountability, and effective use of timekeeping systems.
• Ensure time and attendance data is captured, validated, corrected, and processed accurately and in compliance with company policy, payroll controls, labor regulations, collective bargaining agreements, and business requirements.
• Serve as the escalation point for moderate to highly complex time, attendance, leave, payroll, and system issues involving overlapping policy, regulatory, labor agreement, and system considerations.
• Provide expert consultation to Payroll, Labor Relations, Legal, Total Rewards, Health and Medical, Digital/IT, HR, and business stakeholders on time administration practices, pay rules, work schedules, system impacts, and compliance risks.
• Partners with Digital/IT and technology teams on Workday, Time Management, and legacy timekeeping enhancements, including requirements gathering, testing, issue resolution, change management, and implementation support.
• Lead or support time, leave, and payroll workstreams for system deployments, enhancements, migrations, acquisitions, divestitures, and enterprise technology transformation initiatives.
• Drive continuous improvement, standardization, control effectiveness, and operational excellence across time administration processes.
• Support talent management, performance management, skills development, workforce planning, and capability building for the Time Administration team.

Required Qualifications:

• +5 years of experience in time administration, payroll, HR operations, workforce management, or a related function with responsibility for accurate, compliant employee time and pay outcomes.
• Working knowledge of timekeeping processes, payroll controls, work schedules, pay practices, leave-related processes, and applicable compliance requirements.
• Ability to interpret and apply company policies, labor agreements, regulatory requirements, and operational procedures to resolve routine and non-routine time administration issues.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, prioritize work, and build capability across a team or function.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, judgment, and risk-assessment skills, with the ability to evaluate complex issues and recommend practical, defensible solutions.
• Ability to manage escalations, balance stakeholder needs, and communicate decisions and guidance clearly to employees, supervisors, HR, Payroll, Legal, Labor Relations, and business stakeholders.
• Experience partnering across functions to improve processes, strengthen controls, resolve operational issues, and support consistent service delivery.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex time, pay, policy, or system topics into clear guidance for varied audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of U.S. and Canada time administration, wage and hour practices, collective bargaining agreement provisions, premium and differential pay rules, rotating or non-standard schedules, and complex pay applications.
• Experience with Workday Time, Crew Time Management, or other enterprise timekeeping, payroll, or workforce management systems
• Experience supporting system implementations, enhancements, migrations, acquisitions, divestitures, user acceptance testing, requirements gathering, change management, or process transformation initiatives.
• Experience working in a multi-state, union, refinery, shipping/Mariner, expatriate, or other complex workforce environment.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority and provide enterprise-level consultation on time administration, pay practices, compliance risk, controls, process design, and system impacts.
• Experience using data, metrics, trends, or root-cause analysis to identify process issues, improve service delivery, and drive continuous improvement.

Relocation Options:

Relocation is not offered for this role. Only local candidates will be considered.

International Considerations:

Expatriate assignments will not be considered. Chevron regrets that it is unable to sponsor employment Visas or consider individuals on time-limited Visa status for this position.

Regulatory Disclosure for US Positions

• The compensation and reference to benefits for this role is listed on this posting in compliance with applicable law. Please note that the compensation and benefits listed below are only applicable for U.S. payroll offers.
• The anticipated salary range for this position is $137,600– $206,400. The selected candidate’s compensation will be determined based on their skills, experience, and qualifications.
• Chevron offers competitive compensation and benefits programs which includes, but is not limited to, variable pay, health care coverage, retirement plan, protection coverage, time off and leave programs, training and development opportunities and a range of allowances connected to specific work situations. Details are available at http://hr2.chevron.com/.

U.S. Regulatory notice:

Chevron is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin or ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, reproductive health decision-making, military or veteran status, political preference, marital status, citizenship, genetic information or other characteristics protected by applicable law.

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