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Ashley Blair

Grain Valley

Summary

Dynamic and passionate professional with a strong commitment to supporting customers and colleagues. Known for unwavering loyalty to both employer and teammates, coupled with a consistently positive attitude that fosters collaboration and enhances team morale. Enthusiastic about teamwork and customer service, ensuring a proactive approach in every endeavor.

Overview

years of professional experience

Work History

HR / Payroll Administrator

PAR Electrical Contractors

Lenexa, KS

07.2024 - Current

Coordinate full-cycle recruiting for field and office roles, including posting jobs, screening candidates, and supporting hiring managers.
Manage onboarding and orientation activities to ensure a smooth transition for new hires.
Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local labor laws, as well as company policies.
Maintain accurate employee records, personnel files, and HRIS data integrity.
Assist with compliance reporting, audits, and documentation related to safety, training, certifications, and EEO requirements.
Assist employees with benefits enrollment, questions, and issue resolution.
Partner with payroll to address timekeeping and pay inquiries.
Administer leaves of absence (FMLA, ADA, Workers’ Comp) and coordinate required documentation.
Run weekly payroll process
Union reporting
Certified Payroll
Child support and garnishments
Support Divisional Payroll Administrators
Employee support
Balancing the union accrual to the general ledger
Maintain all union rates/benefits/skill levels for all unions
Researching outstanding and unclaimed payroll checks
Balance manual check batches each week
Process payroll adjustments/corrections/one-time overrides
Process off-cycle checks
Research bank exceptions
Update employee direct deposit and tax information
Pull data and support for audit compliance

Human Resources

Target

01.2019 - 11.2025

Responsibilities include preparing or updating employment records Related to hiring, transferring, promoting, and terminating
Planning with recruitment and selection process, posting job ads, evaluating the Performance of employees, job applications, scheduling interviews And ensuring background checks
Another job is payroll and benefits which deals with ensuring vacation and sick times are accounted for, reviewing payroll and approving invoices for payment
Coordinates the employee activities
Distributes the payroll checks
Helps with the whole onboarding process of new team members.
From 2022 to 2025 I worked part time on weekends.

Office Administrator

Hoy Excavating LLC

10.2023 - 02.2024

Responsibilities include answering phones, keep office clean, order supplies, update permits, IFTA, DOT, all invoices that come in, match receipts with credit card bill and code to right GL account, renew tags, update fuel logs, truck maintenance, check supervisor daily reports and put in Dropbox with right job
Office administrator also does all the filing, scanning, keeps track of GPS on the trucks to make sure they are working properly
When a new bid comes out I help with getting bid bonds
All railroad projects need to make sure they have BNSF and ERAIL completed and cards on them
There are several duties for this position and not every day is the same.

Billing Specialist

Mainline Services, LLC.

03.2022 - 10.2023

This company is a railroad contractor that operates 24 hours a day 7 days a week
I am responsible for the daily billing of the jobs which include estimating the job as needed and submitting invoices to the specific client
Some clients have different contracts of the work preformed in the field
I have to ensure the billing is coded correctly before sending off to the specific client
Mainline uses HCSS for the field which is how we transfer the data from the field to the office
We also use Deltek Computer Ease for the accounting side where I can pull job costs and billed revenue for the jobs
On a day to day basis I am multi-tasking between phone calls, new jobs coming in, setting the jobs up, sending out emails, follow ups with current rentals or subs on the job.

Human Resources & Payroll

HB Construction

01.2021 - 03.2022

Daily routines include but not limited to processing new hire paperwork
Helping the new hires understand the process while guiding them through all the new hire essentials
Running background checks and setting up the pre-employment drug screen
All new hires that decide to elect Health, Vision & Dental insurance I make sure to get that processed
Since we pay our employees weekly I am responsible for using our Heavy Jobs software to bring over the hours worked for the previous week and processing that in Computer Ease
From there once everything is ready I then send Payroll over to Deltek along with printing checks for any employee who is not set up for direct deposit
Each week I also have to make sure all Certified Payroll is submitted after our regular payroll is done
Monthly I obtain all receipts from any employee who has a company credit card to match receipts to statements and code the expense.