TMEIC

PWA Compliance Specialist (PR26050)

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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

Requirements

  • · 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

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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