Human Resources – External Worker Specialist

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $80k - $95k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👩‍👩‍👧‍👦 Human Resources (HR)

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Salas O'Brien

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

💼 Consulting

🏗️ Construction

🏥 Healthcare

Consulting • Construction • Healthcare

Salas O'Brien is a multidisciplinary engineering and design firm delivering MEP, structural, civil, energy and resiliency, process engineering, digital automation, and sustainability and forensic consulting for buildings, industrial facilities, and infrastructure. The firm specializes in advanced energy and renewables, decarbonization strategy, microgrids, energy optimization, and integrated facility design and commissioning, serving institutional, healthcare, education, data center, aerospace, and manufacturing clients. Salas O'Brien focuses on sustainable, resilient solutions and technical project delivery for other organizations and public-sector partners.

📋 Description

• Design, document, implement, and continuously improve a comprehensive external worker governance framework • Serve as the primary subject matter expert on external worker compliance, worker classification, and engagement models across U.S. and international jurisdictions • Review and approve proposed external worker engagements before work begins and recommend the appropriate engagement model • Identify classification, employment, tax, immigration, co-employment, and other compliance concerns; pause, decline, or escalate noncompliant engagements • Establish and administer intake and approval workflows, documentation, decision records, and exception-management processes • Manage external worker records within UKG Pro, including worker data, organizational assignments, engagement dates, documentation, and lifecycle status • Coordinate onboarding and offboarding with HR, Information Technology, Finance, Procurement, Legal, and other partners • Monitor engagement end dates, renewals, extensions, breaks in service, and duration limits • Maintain auditable records and conduct periodic reviews to identify risks and control gaps • Track laws, regulations, and emerging practices and translate changes into policies, workflows, controls, and guidance • Support staffing, employer-of-record, and other external workforce partner oversight • Develop training, tools, templates, and communications for leaders • Produce dashboards and reporting on external worker populations, engagement types, locations, tenure, end dates, compliance status, exceptions, and risks • Support internal and external audits, investigations, and information requests and recommend corrective actions

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, employment relations, compliance, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant experience will be considered • Seven or more years of progressive experience in HR operations, contingent or external workforce management, employment compliance, procurement, or a related discipline • Demonstrated experience evaluating worker classifications and developing or administering external workforce programs, controls, and lifecycle processes • Strong working knowledge of U.S. federal and multi-state worker classification requirements, co-employment considerations, and related employment and tax compliance concepts • Experience supporting international external workers, employer-of-record arrangements, or cross-border workforce compliance strongly preferred • Experience administering worker data in an HRIS or vendor management platform; UKG Pro experience preferred • Ability to maintain accurate records and translate data into actionable reporting • Demonstrated ability to build new processes, establish governance, define roles and controls, and move a program from design through implementation and ongoing administration • Sound judgment and confidence evaluating complex or ambiguous arrangements, communicating risk, making defensible recommendations, and escalating or stopping noncompliant engagements when necessary • Ability to explain complex compliance requirements in practical business terms and work effectively across HR, Legal, Finance, Procurement, Information Technology, and business leadership • Ability to work independently in a fully remote environment, manage competing priorities, maintain sensitive information, and drive work to completion with limited oversight

🏖️ Benefits

• Performance-based bonuses • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401(k) with company match • Paid time off • Company holidays • Wellness programs • Employee assistance resources • Professional development support