PWA Compliance Specialist (PR26025)

Job # PR26025 Job Title: PWA Compliance Specialist Office Location: Houston, TX preferred Business Function/Department: Human Resources 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, 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 and monitoring 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 evidencing 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. EEO/AA/M/F/Vet/Disability Employer #J-18808-Ljbffr TMEIC Corporation