- A/B/C: A
- Role: Certified Payroll Specialist
- C/C2H/D: C
- Company & Website: AWP Safety, www.awpsafety.com
- Revenue and/or employee size: 1.6 billion, 1000 employees
- Accounting Department Size/structure: 10 roughly in total in this group, including 5 in California and then 4 in OH Corporate office
- Role is open because: Have a person going out on an extended medical leave
- Competition: Exclusive
- Date/time of upcoming interviews (internally &/or other firms): None
- AWP Safety delivers comprehensive traffic management services in support of infrastructure projects, construction, and utility work. They are headquartered in North Canton, Ohio.
EVP: Quality leadership and a lot of growth over the last few years. CFO is a close connection to Keith and the company has had a lot of recent success working with Brilliant, most recently with MR and even IT.
- 2722 S Fairview, Santa Ana, CA 92704 (Corporate office is in OH, this is different location)
- Hybrid, Monday and Friday remote, Tuesday through Friday on-site
- Open to looking at candidates that would be near their OH location as well if we struggle with the CA location, 4244 Mount Pleasant St NW North Canton Ohio 44720
- If we can't find candidates in either location, may be open to fully remote, but would need to require minimal training and check all of the boxes
- Research and apply federal Davis-Bacon, state, local, union/CBA, and project-specific prevailing wage requirement
- Review wage determinations, classifications, base rates, fringe benefits, overtime rules, and effective dates
- Prepare, review, reconcile, and submit certified payroll reports, including WH-347 and electronic reporting systems such as LCPtracker
- Validate project coding, employee classifications, hours worked, wage rates, fringes, deductions, and overtime before submission
- Reconcile certified payroll data to payroll and timekeeping systems; identify and coordinate corrections for discrepancies or underpayments
- Support multi-state project setup by confirming funding source, project location, wage determination, classifications, and reporting requirements
- Monitor wage-rate changes, reporting deadlines, rejected submissions, and required non-performance reports
- Support audits, investigations, restitution calculations, corrected certified payrolls, and document requests
- Partner with Payroll, Operations, Project Management, Estimating, Finance/Billing, HR/HRIS, and Compliance to resolve prevailing wage issues
- Maintain complete, audit-ready project documentation and escalate ambiguous classification or regulatory issues when formal guidance is needed
Must haves or most important: Requirements
- Must be able to thrive in a fast-paced, multi-state payroll environment
- Must have experience as a Certified Payroll Specialist - Leo mentioned if you do a LinkedIn keyword search, that will pull candidates with that background, usually in the construction industry
- System: LCPtracker is a must-have, common in the construction industry for time-keeping
- Great communication skills
- 4-year degree is nice-to-have
- System: UKG payroll software is nice to have
- Eric Buntin/Vice President, Talent Acquisition & Leo Castillo/Payroll Manager
- Contract for about 5 months, could go longer if the person doesn't come back
- 40 hours per week, 8am - 5pm is the base hours with flexibility
- Business casual
- Will make themselves available, no upcoming time off
- Teams video with Leo Castillo/Payroll Manager
- Targeting 11/9/26, depending on when they can get IT access
- Pay: Up to $40/hour (see me for higher pay)
- Bill rate: Up to $80/hour