Senior Wage Compliance Specialist; Remote

Position: Senior Wage Compliance Specialist (Remote)
SOLV Energy is a leading provider of infrastructure services to the power industry, designing, building and maintaining utility scale solar, battery storage and high voltage substation projects nationwide.

Job Description

Summary:

The Senior Prevailing Wage Compliance Specialist will serve as an integral component for prevailing wage, employee classification title, description, and duties, SOLV Energy’s compliance with all federal, state, and local laws, providing advanced compliance oversight for complex, regulated. utility scale construction projects. This role functions as the escalation resource, subject matter expert, and accountability owner for prevailing wage compliance performance nationally across all geographic regions.

The Senior Prevailing Wage Compliance Specialist operates with a high degree of autonomy and professional judgment and is responsible for ensuring consistent execution of labor compliance standards, audit readiness, and regulatory adherence across all assigned projects and personnel associated with SOLV Energy. As Well, for all projects in preparation or underway between negotiation thru and upon award.

This role is fully remote and may require travel to SOLV Energy offices or jobsites. Specific location details and expectations will be discussed during the interview process.

Job Description:

* This job description reflects management's assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned

Position

Responsibilities and Duties:

Compliance Leadership & Regional Oversight Provide overall labor compliance leadership for all national geographic regions, overseeing compliance activities across multiple active projects and contractors simultaneously.

Independently manage complex prevailing wage compliance obligations for internal self-perform work and multi-tier subcontractors.

Review, analyze, and audit all DOL classification requests and supporting documentation to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local labor laws.

Interpret and apply complex labor compliance requirements, including prevailing wage determinations, fringe benefit compliance, apprenticeship utilization, skilled and trained workforce mandates, and Project Labor Agreements (PLA), Tri-Trade, and Two-Trade Agreements.

Conduct proactive compliance audits and risk assessments to identify, mitigate, and resolve potential findings, underpayments, or reporting deficiencies.

Serve as point of contact for client, third-party, and government audits, reviews, and inquiries, preparing documentation and responding to findings in coordination with senior leadership.

Monitor regulatory changes and provide expert guidance on evolving labor compliance laws, wage determinations, and enforcement trends, with a focus on any state’s union and public works requirements.

People Leadership & Development Assist as an escalation point and technical resource for the Prevailing Wage Compliance Program, providing guidance, troubleshooting support, and resolution of any customer needs to include collaboration with representatives and liaisons from federal, state, and local levels.

Assist ongoing development of professional and program needs including facilitation of compliance training or offerings requested by SOLV clients, other SOLV departments, contractors, or agents.

Participate in regularly scheduled one-on-one meetings to review workload, compliance status, audit readiness, and adherence to established processes.

Maintain overall visibility of all SOLV potential and awarded projects or associated work, actively engage or respond third-party audits to ensure deadlines and compliance requirements are met.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Reporting Review public and private contracts…