Construction Licensing & Business Compliance Manager

About The Role

Join TAI as a Construction Licensing & Business Compliance Manager and play a key role in supporting complex construction operations across multiple states and jurisdictions. This position serves as the central hub for contractor licensing, regulatory compliance, business registrations, and prequalification efforts, helping ensure projects are positioned for success from pursuit through execution. You'll collaborate with leaders across operations, legal, finance, risk, and procurement to build and maintain the compliance infrastructure that enables business growth and market expansion.

About TAI

TAI brings together engineering, construction, systems integration, on-site services, and technical services — combining proven execution with trusted expertise to support clients across the entire project lifecycle. Team members at TAI are capable, well-rounded, flexible, and optimistic. We have found that the best employees are the ones who recognize the importance of what they do and the ones who let that guide them in the actions they take. More than any skill, we seek people who make decisions that support the common good. We work for our clients, and we work for one another.

Responsibilities

• Administer contractor licenses, business registrations, foreign qualifications, trade names, certificates of good standing and related renewals.
• Research state and local licensing, registration and filing requirements before TAI bids, contracts or mobilizes in a new jurisdiction.
• Maintain a jurisdictional requirements matrix documenting authoritative sources, responsible parties, required approvals, filing status, expiration dates and unresolved questions.
• Coordinate applications requiring qualifying individuals, examinations, financial statements, bonds, affidavits or officer signatures.
• Provide leadership with documented readiness status, identified risks and recommended actions; escalate novel or material interpretation questions to Legal or outside advisors.
• Review client contracts, subcontracts, bid documents and related materials to identify licensing, registration, insurance, tax, reporting and prequalification obligations.
• Maintain obligation trackers and coordinate completion with the responsible functional teams.
• Route legal interpretation, negotiation and contract-approval matters to Legal & Contracts.
• Coordinate COIs, endorsements and client insurance documentation; verify documentation against requirements established by contracts and Risk/Insurance.
• Escalate coverage gaps, waiver requests, claims matters and risk-acceptance decisions to the appropriate authority.
• Partner with Accounting/Tax to collect project and jurisdictional facts relevant to sales/use tax, exemption certificates and registration requirements.
• Maintain assigned supporting documentation and provide status information for audits or customer requests.
• Defer taxability, nexus, return preparation, filing