Kiewit Corporation

Project Labor Relations Director

Kiewit Corporation$190K — $210K *
Real Estate & Construction
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15 years of relevant experience in compliance or industrial relations
  • Strong communication skills with various stakeholders
  • In-depth technical knowledge specific to the role
  • Ability to grasp local, state, and federal compliance laws
  • Proficient in basic computer applications and software
  • Exceptional public speaking and training abilities

Responsibilities

  • Manage the Industrial Relations function for a large, union project
  • Collaborate with project management to meet operational needs
  • Oversee craft recruiting campaigns and align with company efforts
  • Provide training on union relations and labor standards
  • Coordinate craft labor dispatching with unions and project teams
  • Facilitate onboarding and training for a skilled workforce
  • Manage grievances, arbitrations, and union-related issues

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Wellness and employee assistance programs
  • Life insurance and disability coverage
  • Retirement plans with matching contributions
  • Generous paid time off
Full Job Description
Requisition ID: 181442

Job Level: Senior Level

Home District/Group: Kiewit Power Delivery

Department: Compliance

Market: Power

Employment Type: Full Time

Position Overview

As a Compliance Manager, you will be responsible for aligning procedures and practice with company policy, regulatory controls and contractual agreements and monitoring the effectiveness of established compliance processes and controls to recommend and implement enhancements.

Location

Project office is located in Medford OR

Responsibilities
• This position would be managing the Industrial Relations function on a large, union project in the Pacific Northwest United States
• Maintain a close working relationship with project management to ensure that Industrial Relations services are being properly executed and that business needs are being met
• Organize, lead and manage all craft recruiting campaigns on the project and coordination with company wide craft recruiting efforts/services
• Facilitate staff training related to union relations and labor/CBA/PLA requirements
• Assist in development of skilled workforce onboarding and training. Play a key role in the onboarding/training of workforce
• Lead coordination of dispatching and scheduling of craft labor with both applicable unions and the project team
• Deep involvement with project management team regarding ramp up's and ramp down's of craft workforce
• Assist project team with craft layoffs and terminations
• Manage and coordinate the daily activities of the site Industrial Relations functions
• Set priorities to ensure task completion and make decisions that are guided by policies, procedures, and project business plan
• Ability to work closely with client and their representatives on all union related issues
• Has the ability to build a solid working relationship with applicable unions
• Attend and participate in Labor-Management meetings
• Understand union jurisdictions
• Manage grievances and arbitrations to resolution
• Provide input to Pre-bid documents and reviews subcontractor work assignments
• Pre-job engagement and meetings with local unions
• Prevent and manage threat and actual work stoppage
• Ability to manage one or two full time employees

Other Job Requirements
• Interface and maintain a close relationship with the corporate Industrial Relation function
• Manage record keeping, reporting and documentation that may be required to meet project and corporate or regulatory requirements, including monitoring initiatives.
• Organize, lead, and manage all craft recruiting campaigns via on the project initiatives and coordination with company wide craft recruiting efforts / services
• Facilitate staff training related to union relations and labor requirements / standards
• Assist development of skilled workforce onboarding and training and play a key role in onboarding/training of skilled workforce.
• Lead coordination of dispatching and scheduling of craft labor with unions and project teams
• Deep involvement with project management team regarding ramp up and ramp down scheduling of craft labor
• Assist project management team with layoffs and terminations
• Lead resolution to all union grievances
• Ability to manage 1 or 2 FTE's
• Ability to become NW NECA Accredited representative.

Qualifications
• Fifteen (15) years of work-related experience
• Ability to communicate effectively with audiences that include but are not limited to management, coworkers, clients, vendors, contractors, and other stakeholders
• Job related technical knowledge necessary to complete the job
• Ability to learn and apply knowledge of applicable local, state/province, and federal/national statutes and guidelines
• Ability to attend to detail and work in a time-conscious and time-effective manner
• Basic computer and software skills to include the use of word processing and email as well as
the basic use of spreadsheets and electronic presentations
• Strong public speaking, presentation, training, teaching, and writing skills
• Ability to attend to detail and work in a time-conscious and time-effective manner

Other Requirements:
• Regular, reliable attendance
• Work productively and meet deadlines timely
• Communicate and interact effectively and professionally with supervisors, employees, and others individually or in a team environment
• Perform work safely and effectively. Understand and follow oral and written instructions, including warning signs, equipment use, and other policies.
• Work during normal operating hours to organize and complete work within given deadlines. Work overtime and weekends as required.
• May work at various different locations and conditions may vary

Base Compensation: $190,000 - $210,000

(Actual compensation is subject to variation due to such factors as education, experience, skillset, and/or location)

We offer our fulltime staff employees a comprehensive benefits package that's among the best in our industry, including top-tier medical, dental and vision plans covering eligible employees and dependents, voluntary wellness and employee assistance programs, life insurance, disability, retirement plans with matching, and generous paid time off.

About Kiewit Corporation

Kiewit Corporation is an employee-owned Fortune 500 contractor based in Omaha, Nebraska. Privately held, it is one of the largest contractors in the world. Recent projects have included several bridge retrofittings in the San Francisco Bay Area, Interstate H-3 project in Hawaii, and building the world's largest geodesic dome at Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha. Along with significant mining and off-shore operations, the company also contracts small grading (dirt moving) projects for residential or commercial development.

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