BKF is a multi-service infrastructure consulting firm providing civil engineering and surveying services across California, the Pacific Northwest, and beyond. With offices throughout California and the Portland area, BKF has served transportation, water resources, land development, government, and federal clients for over 110 years.
At BKF, you’ll find a unique opportunity to grow your career with intention. Our culture values professional autonomy, innovation, and meaningful collaboration across offices. We are proud to be recognized with the Great Place to Work certification for the second year in a row.
BKF Engineers is seeking an experienced Prevailing Wage & Payroll Administrator to support payroll operations for employees working on prevailing wage and public works projects. This role is responsible for ensuring prevailing wage employees are paid accurately and timely by maintaining wage rates in payroll systems, validating employee and project assignments, reviewing payroll calculations, administering fringe benefits and apprenticeship contributions, and resolving payroll discrepancies.
Essential Responsibilities
• Process and administer California prevailing wage payroll.
• Ensure compliance with wage determinations, classifications, fringe benefits, overtime, and apprenticeship requirements.
• Maintain payroll records, rate tables, and payroll system data.
• Validate employee classifications, project assignments, and labor allocations.
• Process payroll corrections, retroactive adjustments, true-ups, and fringe payments.
• Calculate and administer fringe benefits and CAC apprenticeship contributions.
• Review, audit, and reconcile payroll for accuracy and compliance.
• Collaborate with Payroll, HR, Finance, Project Accounting, and Operations to resolve payroll issues.
• Support labor compliance reviews, audits, and regulatory reporting.
• Support multi-state payroll processing and ensure employees are paid accurately and on schedule.
• Support payroll tax compliance requirements, including payroll tax reporting, reconciliations, filings, and compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.
Required Qualifications
• 5+ years of payroll processing experience.
• 3+ years of experience processing prevailing wage.
• Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, or a related field.
• Experience with California prevailing wage payroll.
• Strong knowledge of prevailing wage laws, classifications, fringe benefits, overtime, apprenticeship requirements, and rate changes.
• Ability to interpret wage determinations and maintain payroll rate tables.
• Experience auditing payroll, performing reconciliations, and processing payroll adjustments.
• Experience with ERP and payroll platforms such as Deltek Vantagepoint (VP), UKG, or equivalent systems.
• Experience processing payroll for a large organization with 500+ employees.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and problem-solving abilities.
• High level of accuracy and confidentiality.
• Experience processing multi-state payroll.
• Experience with overall payroll administration.
• Experience supporting payroll tax compliance requirements.