Job Description
THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOINING
- Established, private equity-backed industrial services and equipment organization supporting customers across a diverse range of essential industries
- Provides a combination of specialized equipment, technical field services, maintenance, calibration, and technology-enabled solutions
- Growing national footprint built through a combination of organic growth and strategic acquisitions
- Serves customers with complex, mission-critical operations where accuracy, reliability, and responsiveness matter
- Business is in an exciting stage of transformation, investing in its people, systems, and infrastructure to support continued growth
- Entrepreneurial environment where leaders have the opportunity to make decisions, improve processes, and have a visible impact on the business
WHAT THEY OFFER YOU
- Opportunity to take real ownership of payroll and benefits during an important stage of growth and transformation
- Direct partnership with senior HR and Finance leadership
- A recently implemented UKG environment with the foundation in place and meaningful opportunity to continue optimizing it
- Remote flexibility for someone in the Greater Charlotte market, with occasional in-person collaboration
- An environment where you will be trusted to assess what is working, solve problems, and help build processes that can scale with the business
WHERE THIS SITS
- Greater Charlotte, NC
- Primarily remote with occasional in-person meetings
- Contract-to-hire opportunity
WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING
- Take ownership of a multi-state payroll and benefits function and quickly become the person the organization trusts to keep it moving
- Lead biweekly payroll while bringing structure, consistency, and confidence to the broader process
- Step into a recently implemented UKG environment, understand where things stand, and drive the remaining work across integrations, feeds, benefits, and payroll processes
- Partner closely with HR and Finance to troubleshoot issues, answer questions, and make sound decisions when there is not always a playbook
- Own benefits administration and play an important role in the upcoming open enrollment cycle
- Navigate payroll complexities including multi-state requirements, prevailing wage, and incentive compensation
- Identify what is working, what needs attention, and where processes can become smarter and more scalable.
A BACKGROUND THAT FITS
- Payroll and benefits leadership experience with the ability to take true ownership of the function, not simply execute transactions
- Hands-on UKG experience and the ability to step into the system, understand the current environment, and determine what needs to happen next
- Experience managing multi-state payroll and navigating the complexities that come with supporting a geographically dispersed workforce
- Strong benefits administration experience, including involvement with open enrollment
- Experience with prevailing wage environments is highly valuable
- Comfortable stepping into an evolving environment where every process may not yet be perfectly documented
- Resourceful problem solver who knows how to investigate, find answers, and move issues through to resolution
- Able to operate at the manager level while still being willing to roll up your sleeves and get into the details
- Experience within a private equity-backed, acquisitive, or rapidly changing organization would translate especially well
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