Project Labor Relations Director

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.

At Kiewit, the scale of our operations is huge. Our construction and engineering projects span across the United States, Canada and Mexico, improving and connecting communities with every initiative.  We depend on our high-performing operations support professionals — they’re the glue that holds multiple areas of the business together and the catalysts that make things happen. We hire only the most driven people and we offer them diverse career opportunities, strong leadership and mentorship, rewarding, collaborative work, and responsibility they won’t find just anywhere. We’re always pushing new limits. You can too. 

District Overview

Kiewit Power Delivery. is a full-service engineering and construction solutions provider operating across North America. Our experience and expertise span all aspects of the transmission and distribution market from high voltage overhead and underground transmission to distribution and automation design and construction capabilities. With these broad capabilities, we operate in the electric utility, renewable energy, industrial, and oil & gas markets.  As part of Kiewit, we are integrated with 135 years of construction and engineering experience that provides holistic solutions, differentiating our team from the rest of the industry. 

Our rapidly growing power delivery business has opened new locations across North America to strengthen our market presence while executing work within the communities that we live. We have invested in industry leading design technology and platforms while also expanding our construction equipment fleet with the most advanced, and safest equipment on the market. We are committed to building upon our history as one of the safest companies to work for by equipping our craft with the best tooling and safety programs available. 

We are an innovative team that prides itself on excellence through continuous improvement and an unwavering commitment to deliver for our clients. Our staff collaborates with Kiewit’s vast internal network of resources that span heavy civil and infrastructure, vertical and commercial buildings, mining, as well our oil and gas and power generation markets, to drive safe and cost-effective solutions that achieve client expectations and further Kiewit’s legacy of excellence. 

On our team, you’ll have the opportunity to see more, touch more, and do more than you ever imagined. Working hard will not only bring you satisfaction from a job well done, but it will help propel your career forward faster than you might expect. Kiewit’s culture encourages training, developing your skills, and tailoring your experience and knowledge to allow you to take on projects that impact millions across North America. With top-notch health benefits, a wealth-building 401k plan, and unbeatable growth opportunities, by joining Kiewit, you’re ensuring a lifetime of success. 

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