PWA Compliance Specialist (PR26025)

Job # PR26025

Job Title PWA Compliance Specialist

Office Location Houston, TX preferred

Business Function/Department Human Resources

Sales Territory, if applicable N/A

General Role Description

Develop, manage, and continuously improve the Company’s prevailing wage and apprenticeship (PWA) compliance programming and activities ensuring labor compliance readiness across a growing portfolio of projects

Role Accountabilities

-   Manage prevailing wage and apprenticeship (PWA) requirements for current and future projects, as required in collaboration with project management, field operations, legal, finance, commercial, HR, and clients

-   Advise internal stakeholders on PWA compliance strategy, requirements, and impacts to project execution

-   Develop internal PWA processes that ensure the Company’s PWA obligations are met

-   Monitor and maintain ongoing compliance with prevailing wage requirements, including classification accuracy, pay rates, and supporting documentation according to legal requirements and client obligations

-   Manage apprenticeship compliance requirements including tracking labor hour thresholds, monitor apprenticeship participation and ratio requirements

-   Submit Department of Labor classification and prevailing wage rate requests by project and scope, and maintain documentation of wage determinations

-   Track and coordinate all prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements by project

-   Coordinate apprenticeship job postings and searches as required

-   Maintain documentation to evidence of good faith efforts, when applicable

-   Serve as the point of contact with registered apprenticeship programs

-   Coordinate the submission of certified payroll records with the finance department and project management team

-   Maintain compliance files by project, contractor and reporting period

-   Monitor PWA requirements, regulatory updates, and enforcement guidance, and implement changes as necessary

-   Identify opportunities to improve PWA processes, reporting, and compliance tracking

-   Identify and manage the services of PWA vendors, as needed

-   Develop and deliver training on PWA compliance, including associated company processes and expectations, as needed

General Employee Accountabilities

-   Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager

-   Give manager best advice

-   Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified

-   Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager

-   Exemplify Company Core Values:  Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment

-   Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws

-   Recommend viable improvements proactively

-   Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, human resource management, or equivalent via education and/or experience
• 2 years’ experience with prevailing wage and apprenticeship, or Davis-Bacon compliance programs
• Demonstrated knowledge of prevailing wage classifications and rate determinations
• Demonstrated knowledge of apprenticeship participation and labor hour thresholds
• Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts
• Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills
• Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility
• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, Outlook
• Availability to travel domestically, less than 5%, sometimes with limited notice

Preferred Qualifications

-  5 years’ experience with prevailing wage and apprenticeship, or Davis-Bacon compliance programs

-  Demonstrated experience with Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) specific PWA compliance, clean energy, or federally funded projects

-  Experience in a dynamic, high growth, global engineering services organization or industry served by the Company

-  Demonstrated experience with a foreign owned business, preferably Japanese

-  Demonstrated experience working with a field service organization

-  GPHR or SPHR

Link to TMEIC Corporation Americas website:  https://www.tmeic.com/.  To be considered an applicant for any available positions, individuals must complete an online job application for each posting.  A resume may be attached to the online application but is not considered a substitute for the information in the application.  Applications will be considered only for the specific position for which the application is submitted.

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