Payroll Administrator

Application Instructions

SPS New England, Inc., one of the leading heavy highway contractors in New England, is seeking a highly motivated individual to perform duties on Bridge and Highway construction projects.

Since 1984, SPS has been helping to rebuild New England's infrastructure. Wherever you drive throughout Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, there's a good chance you will travel down a road or over a bridge built by SPS New England.

Position Description

Job Title: Payroll Specialist - Construction Industry

Location: Salisbury, MA

Employment Type: Full-time

Reports To: Payroll Manager

About the Role

We're seeking a detail-oriented Payroll Specialist with experience in the construction industry to support accurate and timely payroll processing across multiple projects and job sites. This role is key in ensuring compliance with union agreements, certified payroll requirements, and prevailing wage laws while supporting dynamic processes across multiple active jobs and deadlines.

Key Responsibilities

• • Process weekly payroll for 500 field and office employees.
  • Manage certified payroll reporting and ensure compliance with state, federal, and union requirements.
  • Maintain accurate employee records, prevailing wage rates, and union wage rates.
  • Handle deductions, garnishments, and benefits contributions in coordination with HR.
  • Respond to employee payroll inquiries and resolve discrepancies promptly.
  • Support audits, tax filings, and year-end reporting.
  • Collaborate with project managers and accountants to obtain accurate labor data and align with job costing systems.

Qualifications

• • 3-5 years of payroll experience and/or construction industry experience preferred.
  • Strong knowledge of Davis-Bacon Act, union reporting, and prevailing wage laws.
  • Proficiency in payroll software (Viewpoint Vista experience is a plus) and in Excel.
  • High attention to detail, confidentiality, and strong analytical skills.
  • Excellent communication and problem-solving abilities.

Hourly pay rate range: $28-40/hr depending on payroll and/or heavy highway & bridge construction industry experience.

ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) :

SPS is an employee-owned company. We are proud to offer eligible employees the opportunity to participate in our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). Employee-owners benefit from the success of the company and play a critical role in fostering an ownership culture within the organization, emphasizing the importance of employee engagement, and commitment to long-term success.

We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages, including participation in the ESOP for eligible employees, a collaborative work environment, and opportunities for professional growth within our expanding organization.

Position Requirements

Qualifications

• • 3-5 years of payroll experience and/or construction industry experience preferred.
  • Strong knowledge of Davis-Bacon Act, union reporting, and prevailing wage laws.
  • Proficiency in payroll software (Viewpoint Vista experience is a plus) and in Excel.
  • High attention to detail, confidentiality, and strong analytical skills.
  • Excellent communication and problem-solving abilities.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of SPS New England, Inc. to assure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, national origin, age or disability. Such action shall include: employment, upgrading, demotion, or transfer; recruitment or recruitment advertising; layoff or termination; rates of pay or other forms of compensation; and selection for training, including apprenticeship, pre-apprenticeship, and/or on-the-job training. It is also the policy of SPS New England, Inc. to take affirmative action to employ and to advance in employment, all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, or any other applicable legally protected status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, recruitment advertising, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay, fringe benefits or other forms of compensation, and selection for training, including apprenticeship, pre-apprenticeship, on the job training, classification, and referral, at all levels of employment. Consistent with these obligations, SPS New England, Inc. also provides reasonable accommodations to employees and applicants with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, observances, and practices.

Employees and applicants of SPS New England, Inc. will not be subject to harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status. Additionally, retaliation, including intimidation, threats, or coercion, because an employee or applicant has objected to discrimination, engaged or may engage in filing a complaint, assisted in a review, investigation, or hearing or have otherwise sought to obtain their legal rights under any Federal, State, or local EEO law is prohibited.

SPS New England, Inc. is seeking minority and female employees, and all employees are encouraged to recruit minority and females as well.