PWA Compliance Specialist; PR

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.

· 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.

• 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

· 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

EEO/AA/M/F/Vet/Disability Employer