PWA Compliance Specialist (PR26050)

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
• Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, human resource management, or equivalent via education and/or experience
• 1 year 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

• 3 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

Hiring Range: $89,520-$128,685 Link to TMEIC Corporation Americas website 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. EEO/AA/M/F/Vet/Disability Employer