Payroll Manager

Position Summary

Responsible for accurate and timely payroll for approximately 400 union and non-union employees across

eight collective bargaining agreements (CBAs), including certified payroll, prevailing wage, union fringe reporting, reconciliations, and payroll compliance.

Qualifications, skills, and all relevant experience needed for this role can be found in the full description below.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Process and reconcile recurring payroll for approximately 400 employees; audit timecards, pay rates, deductions, overtime and adjustments.

• Interpret and apply eight CBAs, including craft classifications, wage schedules, dues, benefits and overtime provisions.

• Prepare certified payroll submissions and maintain records for applicable federal, Illinois and local prevailing wage projects.

• Calculate, reconcile and submit union fringe benefit contributions, dues and remittance reports on required deadlines.

• Coordinate with field operations and project teams on time entry, job costing, classifications and labor allocations.

• Maintain payroll data in ADP or designated system; resolve discrepancies and support audits and process improvements.

• Partner with HR and Accounting on employee changes, tax withholding, garnishments, general ledger and compliance reporting.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of complex payroll experience; multi-union payroll experience strongly preferred.

• Working knowledge of CBAs, union fringe reporting, certified payroll and prevailing wage

requirements.

• Strong Excel, reconciliation and payroll systems skills; ADP experience preferred.

• Experience in construction, utilities, telecom, manufacturing, public works or another unionized

environments welcomed.

• Ability to handle confidential data, meet strict deadlines and communicate with field and office

employees.

Work Environment & Physical Demands (OSHA / ADA Documentation)

Primarily an office-based position with routine computer and telephone work. xhqgsiq The descriptions below reflect anticipated job demands and should be validated against actual duties and the workplace hazard assessment; they do not independently establish OSHA compliance.