PWA Compliance Specialist (PR26025)
 TMEIC Corporation | |
 United States, Texas, Houston | |
| 2901 Wilcrest Drive (Show on map) | |
 Apr 24, 2026 | |
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Job # PR26025 Job Title PWA Compliance Specialist Office Location Houston, TX preferred Business Function/Department Human Resources Sales Territory, if applicable N/A General Role Description 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 Job # PR26025 Job Title PWA Compliance Specialist Office Location Houston, TX preferred Business Function/Department Human Resources Sales Territory, if applicable N/A General Role Description 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 Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications - 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 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. EEO/AA/M/F/Vet/Disability Employer | |