Workday HCM Specialist — Manufacturing

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ONSITE - WARSAW INDIANA

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for a skilled Workday Specialist to serve as the on-site technical lead for a critical Workday implementation at our Warsaw Manufacturing Facility. In this role, you will partner with our Workday Consultants to drive all configuration, testing, and go-live activities across Time Tracking, Absence, and Scheduling.

This role sits at the center of two high-impact initiatives: transitioning hourly workers from biweekly to weekly payroll and deploying Workday Time, Absence, and Scheduling across a workforce of up to 2,000 employees. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders across Manufacturing, Finance, Payroll, and our external Workday consulting team.

| WORK AUTHORIZATION REQUIREMENT

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis. We are unable to offer visa sponsorship at this time.

| WHAT YOU GET TO DO

Time Tracking & Absence Management

• Review Time Tracking and Absence configuration to scope testing scenarios and identify impacted calculations.

• Partner with our Workday implementation consultants to review and validate a new pay period schedule and align a corresponding Pay Group to support the transition to a weekly payroll frequency for hourly employees.

• Review and test new Workweek definitions and review all Overtime rule calculations.

• Review and modify Time Entry Templates, Time Codes, and Calculation Rules to reflect the updated pay structure.

• Adjust Time Off Plans and accrual logic to align with the new weekly pay frequency.

• Collaborate with the external time clock vendor to ensure accurate time collection and integration data flow.

• Support Time and Absence-specific testing scenarios and participate in End-to-End testing.

• Execute go-live configuration and data conversion activities in the Production environment and provide post-launch support.

Scheduling

• Support Workday Scheduling configuration for up to 2,000 hourly workers.

• Configure up to 3 Schedule Tag Types in support of the deployment scope.

• Implement static scheduling via Work Schedule Calendars (Static Scheduling methodology).

• Support a re-organization of the Supervisory Organization Hierarchy as it pertains to scheduling impacts; coordinate with HCM/Data Conversion workstreams for related data conversion activities.

• Set up the 10 delivered Workday Scheduling reports and configure the Workforce Management Operational Reporting security package.

Payroll

• Audit Earnings and Deductions to scope testing scenarios and identify calculations impacted by the shift from biweekly to weekly pay for hourly workers.

• Test new Period Schedule and Pay Group to support weekly payroll processing for the hourly population.

• Review and test Run Categories to the new Period Schedule and Pay Group.

• Assist with assigning workers to the new Pay Groups.

• Review smoke-testing results to validate payroll configuration prior to formal testing phases.

• Support payroll-specific and End-to-End testing scenarios.

• Support go-live payroll configuration and data conversion in the Production environment and provide post-launch support.

Benefits

• Assist with auditing benefits configuration (benefit groups, benefit plans, and election data) to confirm impacts resulting from the introduction of weekly pay for hourly workers.

• Review and test new Benefit Group(s) as required to support the updated pay frequency.

• Assist with and test 401(k) elections and conversion to weekly amounts for the affected hourly population.

• Conduct smoke-testing of benefits configuration.

• Support Benefits-specific and End-to-End testing scenarios.

• Support go-live benefits configuration and data conversion in production and provide post-launch support.

Integrations

• Serve as the primary Workday technical point of contact for two integrations with an external time clock vendor.

• Coordinate with the external time clock vendor, internal integration teams, and external Workday consultant to validate data flows during testing and at go-live.

General & Cross-Functional

• Serve as the primary on-site Workday technical liaison for the Warsaw Manufacturing Facility throughout the project lifecycle.

• Partner with external Workday consultants, HR Operations, Payroll, and Manufacturing team to translate business requirements into Workday configuration.

• Maintain accurate documentation of all configuration decisions, testing outcomes, and go-live activities.

• Proactively identify risks and escalate issues to the Director, HR Operations.

| WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Business Administration, Information Technology, or a related discipline preferred.
• Minimum 5+ years of hands-on Workday configuration experience, with demonstrated expertise in Time Tracking & Absence, Payroll, and Scheduling workstreams.

• Previous experience supporting a manufacturing or industrial hourly workforce in Workday.

• Direct experience supporting a pay frequency change (e.g., biweekly to weekly) within the Workday platform.

• Direct experience configuring Period Schedules, Pay Groups, Run Categories, Time Entry Templates, Time Codes, Overtime Rules, and Accrual Plans.

• Experience with Workday Scheduling, including Schedule Tag Types and static scheduling.

• Familiarity with Workday Benefits configuration, including Benefit Groups and 401(k) election data conversion.

• Experience supporting or executing go-live activities including smoke-testing, End-to-End testing, production data conversion, and post-go-live support.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to partner effectively with internal and external stakeholders.

• Ability to work on-site at the Warsaw, Indiana manufacturing facility.

• Core hours are Monday–Friday, 8am–5pm, with additional availability expected to support testing and go-live phases.

Additional Info:

At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories. Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra.  We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.

We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years!

FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused.

We''ve differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. Throw out everything you''ve heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.

Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match

Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.

FastTek Global was named one of the Top Work Places in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023!

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