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 for labor compliance requirements and collaborate with project teams, legal, payroll, and external stakeholders to implement compliant monitoring and reporting strategies.
• Issue formal requests for missing, corrected, or revised documentation and work directly with federal or SOLV contractor representatives to resolve compliance issues.
• Familiar with labor compliance systems (e.g., LCPTracker and similar platforms) to review, approve, and manage certified payroll submissions and compliance documentation.
• Ensure timely and accurate submission of labor compliance records to clients, federal, state, and local agencies in accordance with contractual and regulatory deadlines.
• Maintain organized, audit-ready digital file documentation and ensure shared compliance tracking tools and SharePoint repositories are consistently updated.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with all SOLV clients, project teams, contractors, unions, or other third-parties.
• Perform other related compliance and leadership duties as assigned.

Minimum Skills or Experience Requirements: 

• Associate’s degree in a related field or equivalent combination of relevant professional experience, training, and demonstrated labor compliance expertise.
• Minimum of 5+ years of progressively responsible experience in compliance on federal/state funded construction projects, including exposure to complex, multi-project environments.
• Demonstrated experience serving in a lead, senior, or supervisory capacity, with responsibility for guiding, mentoring, and overseeing the work of other compliance professionals.
• Advanced, working knowledge of federal/state labor laws and regulations including DBRA and DOL, prevailing wage enforcement, apprenticeship standards, skilled and trained workforce mandates, and public works compliance.
• Proven expertise in prevailing wage enforcement, certified payroll auditing, risk assessment, and labor compliance investigations, including resolution of findings and corrective action implementation.
• Experience managing compliance activities across multiple projects, contractors, and geographic regions, with accountability for outcomes and deadlines.
• High level of professional judgment, discretion, and integrity when handling sensitive compliance, audit, and regulatory matters.
• High proficiency with labor compliance and payroll monitoring systems (e.g., LCPTracker) and strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office and collaboration tools.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess risk, identify trends, and implement corrective actions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including professional correspondence, audit responses, and leadership-level reporting.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, meet deadlines, and operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-accountability construction environment.

SOLV Energy Is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At SOLV Energy we celebrate the power of our differences. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces that improve our communities. SOLV Energy prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind against an employee or applicant based on race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, or ethnicity, mental or physical disability, veteran status, parental status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Benefits:
Employees (and their families) are eligible for medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance. Employees can enroll in our company’s 401(k) plan and are provided vacation, sick and holiday pay.

Compensation Range:

$85,009.00 - $106,261.00

Pay Rate Type:

Salary

SOLV Energy does not accept unsolicited candidate introductions, referrals or resumes from third-party recruiters or staffing agencies. We require all third-party recruiters to communicate exclusively with our internal talent acquisition team. SOLV Energy will not pay a placement fee to any third-party recruiter or agency that has not coordinated their recruiting activity with the appropriate member of our internal talent acquisition team.

In addition, candidate introductions or resumes can only be submitted to our internal talent acquisition recruiting team if a signed vendor agreement is already on file and the third-party recruiter or agency has received formal instructions from our internal talent acquisition team to submit candidates for a particular job posting.

Any unsolicited candidate introductions, referrals or resumes sent by third-party recruiters to SOLV Energy or directly to any of our employees, or received through our website or career portal, will be considered property of SOLV Energy and will not be eligible for a placement fee. In the event a third-party recruiter submits a resume or refers a candidate without a previously signed vendor agreement, SOLV Energy explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire the candidate(s) without financial liability to such third-party recruiter.

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