Tessenderlo Kerley, Inc. is a company of diverse businesses unified by shared values and vision. We serve the agriculture, mining, industrial and water reclamation markets with a broad range of products and technologies, worldwide. Serving these customers well is a passion and a commitment-one that the people of Tessenderlo Kerley find rewarding, empowering and meaningful.

If you want the work you do to make a positive impact on the world in which we live, and work alongside innovative, quality-focused people of vision, Tessenderlo Kerley is the right place for you.

Are you a payroll and compensation professional with a sharp analytical mind and a passion for getting the details right? Do you thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced HR environment where your expertise in compensation strategy and payroll operations drives real business impact? If so, this is your opportunity to join a dynamic HR team where your contributions will help shape a competitive, compliant and equitable total rewards program.

Why Join Us?

📊 Drive Process Improvements – Use your experience to identify opportunities for automation and efficiency across payroll and compensation processes.
🤝 Collaborate Across Functions – Partner with our HR, Finance, Accounting and Tax teams to ensure alignment and compliance.
📈 Grow Your Career – Bring your compensation and payroll expertise to the next level in a role that offers variety, visibility and challenge.

What You’ll Do

✅ Manage bi-weekly multi-state payroll processing, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely disbursements. (California payroll experience is a big plus.)
✅ Administer incentive and bonus programs and recommend program enhancements.
✅ Prepare and present compensation reports to senior leadership.
✅ Collaborate with the Finance team to ensure proper tax withholding, reporting, and month-end close activities.
✅ Maintain payroll data integrity and ensure compliance with relevant employment laws and regulations.
✅ Support payroll audits, regulatory reporting, and annual audit activities.
✅ Continuously assess and improve payroll processes to enhance efficiency and minimize manual tasks.
✅ Partner cross-functionally on special payroll or HR-related projects as needed.

What You’ll Bring

✔️ Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field
✔️ 5+ years of experience in payroll and compensation
✔️ Strong working knowledge of payroll compliance and compensation best practices
✔️ Experience with UKG, SAP, Matrix, Payfactors, and other HRIS/payroll systems is preferred
✔️ Excellent Excel skills and keen attention to detail
✔️ Strong interpersonal skills and ability to navigate sensitive issues with professionalism
✔️ Full-cycle payroll for multiple states (California payroll is a big plus)

Why join Tessenderlo Kerley:

Working at Tessenderlo Kerley

• Work/life balance
• Fun and rewarding environment
• Learning, development and teamwork
• Community involvement/outreach
• Challenging and meaningful work

Benefits & Rewards:

• Medical-Dental-Vision-Prescription (Low employee premiums!)
• 401(k) plan with dollar-for-dollar matching up to the first 5% of employee contribution
• 401(k) company retirement contribution at year-end, equal to 4% of annual base salary
• Short-term incentive awards based on measured performance criteria
• Life Insurance (2x annual base salary)
• Paid vacation and sick time, and 10 paid holidays per year
• Tuition Reimbursement: Up to $5,000 per calendar year (non-taxable)
• Adoption Assistance: Up to $7,500 in reimbursement assistance
• Paid maternity and parental time off
• Business Travel Life & Accident Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Telemedicine program for you and your dependents
• Long-Term Disability insurance
• Company referral program

Tessenderlo Kerley is part of Tessenderlo Group, an industrial group that focuses on agriculture, valorizing bio-residuals, machinery, mechanical engineering, electronics, energy, and providing industrial solutions with a focus on water. With its headquarters in Belgium, the group is active in over 100 countries, and it has a global team of more than 7,000 employees. Its belief that “Every Molecule Counts” is at the heart of the strategy of the group: Tessenderlo Group continually strives to valorize its products and processes to the maximum and to add value to everything it does. For more information about Tessenderlo Group, its people, and its brands, please visit www.tessenderlo.com.

Tessenderlo Kerley, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.