# PWA Compliance Specialist (PR26025) > TMEIC Corporation Americas · Houston, United States (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-04-24 **Workplace:** hybrid **Department:** Human Resources (3030000A) ## Description _**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 ## Requirements _**Minimum Qualifications**_ - Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, human resource management, or equivalent via education and/or experience - 2 years’ 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**_ \-  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/](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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