PWA Compliance Specialist (PR26025)

TMEIC Corporation Americas•Houston, TX

21h•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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
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