SENIOR PERSONNEL SPECIALIST

Caltrans: California Department of Transportation • Sacramento, CA • 1w ago

Job Posting: Senior Personnel Specialist

Job Description and Duties

Looking for a job that you can feel passionate about? The Office of Transactions Services (OTS) is seeking hard-working, resourceful, enthusiastic individuals committed to achieving excellence to work in a fast-paced environment while delivering quality customer service. The Senior Personnel Specialist (Sr. PS) ensures our workforce is paid timely by documenting, reviewing, and completing payroll, personnel, benefit, and leave transactions, while applying related laws, rules, and policies, and meeting deadlines.

Under the general direction of a Branch Chief, the Sr. PS is responsible for a portion of the Office of Transactions Services (OTS) program. The Sr. PS acts in a lead capacity providing training, guidance, assistance, technical expertise, and support to Personnel Specialists (PS), employees and managers in personnel matters in a variety of payroll services and personnel transactions work. This includes areas of appointments; separations; payroll-related matters; implementation of collective bargaining provisions; health, dental, vision, life, flex, deferred compensation, and Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) benefits; leave accounting; disability compensation; adverse actions and salary issues. The Sr. PS demonstrates a positive attitude and a commitment to provide quality service that is accurate, timely and exceeds our customers' expectations.

Eligibility for hire may be determined by your score on the Senior Personnel Specialist exam. For those who do not have current eligibility (e.g., transfer, permissive reinstatement, or voluntary demotions) and/or who will be new to state civil services employment, you must be on the state examination list to be eligible for these positions. To apply for the exam, please click CalCareers and search by typing in the classification title.

The Human Resources Contact is available to answer questions regarding the application process. The Hiring Unit Contact is available to answer questions regarding the position.

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Working Conditions

Position located at 1727 30th Street, Sacramento, Ca.

This is a Limited Term position which may be extended to 24 months or become permanent.

Multiple positions may be filled from this recruitment.

This position may be eligible for telework. The amount of telework is at the discretion of the Department and based on Caltrans’ current telework policy. While Caltrans supports telework, in-person attendance may be required based operational needs. Employees are expected to be able to report to their worksite with minimal notification if an urgent need arises. The selected candidate may be required to conduct business travel on behalf of the Department or commute to the headquarted location. Business travel reimbursements considers an employee's designated Headquarters location, primary residence, and may be subject to CalHR regulations and applicable bargaining unit contract provisions. All commute expenses to the headquarted location will be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

New to State candidates will be hired into the minimum salary of the classification or minimum of alternate range when applicable.

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