Payroll Specialist

Payroll & Hr Assistant

Claypool Electric, Inc. | Lancaster, Ohio Full-Time | 100% Onsite | Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Salary Range: $57,000-$59,400 annually

Claypool Electric is seeking a process-driven payroll specialist to support accurate, timely, and compliant payroll for a construction workforce. The successful candidate will bring practical payroll experience, strong reconciliation skills, and the ability to learn Claypool's prevailing-wage, certified-payroll, job-cost, and labor-classification processes. The role also provides limited administrative support to human resources.

Core responsibilities include managing the payroll process from timecard review through final payroll approval, processing payroll and maintaining payroll data in Vista by Viewpoint, reviewing hours, overtime, paid time off, reimbursements, deductions, garnishments, and payroll adjustments, administering prevailing-wage and certified-payroll requirements for covered construction projects, verifying wage determinations, labor classifications, rates, fringe obligations, and apprenticeship information; preparing and maintaining certified-payroll reports, auditing employee time and labor distributions for accurate job, project, phase, and cost-code allocation, resolving time and payroll exceptions before deadlines and processing approved employee changes, reconciling payroll, taxes, deductions, benefits, and related general-ledger activity; preparing payroll, job-cost, compliance, and year-end reports, responding to employee payroll questions while maintaining confidentiality, and providing limited HR administrative support, including onboarding records, personnel-file maintenance, benefits changes, and employee-status documentation.

Required qualifications include prior payroll-processing experience, strong payroll reconciliation, problem-solving, accuracy, and deadline-management skills, ability to learn and consistently follow detailed payroll, compliance, and job-cost processes, ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive employee information appropriately, and ability to work onsite in Lancaster, Ohio, five days per week. This position is not remote or hybrid.

Compensation and benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) plan with employer contribution, year-end cash bonus and profit-sharing opportunities, 10 days of paid time off and seven paid holidays, and maternity and paternity leave.

Claypool Electric, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to any status protected by applicable law.