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
