# PWA Compliance Specialist (PR26050)

> TMEIC Corporation Americas · Houston, United States (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-07-02

**Workplace:** hybrid

**Department:** Human Resources (3030000)

## 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

-   ·         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

**Preferred Qualifications**

·         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

**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.

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

## Apply

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