Payroll Specialist
Sparks Group
Owings, MD
Sparks Group has partnered with a well-established Regional Construction & Field Services Firm in search of a meticulous Payroll Specialist to lead their end-to-end compensation process. Reporting to the Senior Finance lead, you will be the architectural backbone of the field compensation strategy. You will bridge the gap between daily site production logs and final earnings, ensuring that our highly skilled field crews are paid accurately for every unit of work completed.
Responsibilities:
- Production-Based Earnings: Manage the calculation and verification of piece-rate pay structures, reconciling square footage and unit-based production with labor hours.
- Compliance Oversight: Execute full-cycle payroll while maintaining strict adherence to Davis-Bacon Act requirements, prevailing wage standards, and multi-state hour laws.
- Reporting & Auditing: Generate Certified Payroll Reports (CPR) and ensure precise job costing by allocating labor expenses to specific multi-million dollar projects.
- Field Relations: Serve as the primary point of contact for field superintendents and foremen to resolve discrepancies and manage specialized union or incentive deductions.
Qualifications/Background Profile:
- Sector Expertise: 2–5 years of payroll experience with a dedicated focus on the Construction or Industrial Trades sector.
- Technical Literacy: Proven ability to navigate payroll software ecosystems and automated reporting platforms (e.g., LCPtracker or similar).
- Mathematical Precision: Expert-level ability to calculate complex "piece-work" formulas and perform retro-pay adjustments.
- Compliance Fluency: Deep understanding of wage-and-hour laws, including non-production time (travel/safety) and minimum wage "floor" protections.
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This job is In-Person.
Pay Range: Hourly $26.00 to $34.00
We offer several comprehensive benefits package including health and life insurance, paid and unpaid time off, and retirement and savings plans to qualifying employees.
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Sparks Group is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, pregnancy, citizenship, family status, genetic information, disability, or protect veteran status.
About the Company
Sparks Group
Bringing the Best People and the Best Companies Together Since 1970.
Sparks Group (formerly SPARKS, Sparks IT Solutions, and Sparks Personnel) is the Washington DC Area's leading temporary staffing and full-time recruiting services provider. Whether you are seeking your next opportunity or looking to add talent, Sparks Group is the ideal partner for you! Each of our four divisions (Sparks Office, Sparks Accounting & Finance, Sparks IT, and Sparks Creative) specializes in placing professionals in temporary/contract, temporary-to-full-time, and full-time roles across a diverse array of staffing categories, positions and levels including: office/administrative, customer service, human resources and talent acquisition, legal support, government and cleared personnel, mortgage/banking, accounting and finance, contracts and procurement, information technology and creative/marketing.
Sparks Group brings over four decades of experience placing professionals in challenging and rewarding positions at many of the area’s most prestigious organizations. Our primary focus is presenting opportunities that match each candidate’s skill-sets, experience levels, career objectives, and growth needs. Sparks Group has regularly ranked as one of the top US staffing and recruiting firms having been named to Inavero’s Best of Staffing Lists® for Client and Employee Satisfaction (2012-2017). Additionally, Sparks Group is proud to have been recently selected for other awards Staffing Industry Analysts’ 2017 Best Staffing Firms to Work For, Washington Business Journal Best Places to Work (2017), the Washington Post’s Top Workplaces® List (2017, 2014), Forbes® Best Professional Recruiting Firms (2017), and the National Capital Business Ethics Award.