Underground Distribution - Foreman

5 Star Electric, LLC (5 Star) is a premier full-service provider of electrical construction, maintenance, and repair services with offices in Western Kentucky and Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. 5 Star specializes in Distribution and Transmission Power Line work, Substation, Industrial, Commercial, Streetlighting, and Fiber installations.

Position Title: URD – Foreman

Our Core Values: Guided by Safety. Focused on Communities. Powered by Care.

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

The URD Foreman is responsible for the construction and maintenance of underground electrical distribution and switching for distribution voltages. The position works under the direction of the General Foreman. A URD Foreman is responsible for the safety of his crew and for providing field supervision over crews involved in the installation, maintenance, and repair of underground electric distribution and service lines, transformers, meters, metering equipment, and related equipment. This class is also responsible for performing related duties as required. The hazardous condition of working with high-voltage energized lines and equipment is a critical factor of this job.

Roles and Responsibilities:

- Foremen will be responsible for daily job briefings and ensuring that all crew members are well versed on the coming day’s business, so they are prepared for any and all potential hazards.

- Promotes and maintains harmony among assigned crew personnel, customers, and the general public.

- Assists in constructing and wiring electrical high-voltage substations and analyzes voltage recordings, charts, and electric trouble reports to make recommendations on replacing or upgrading transformers, services, or related equipment.

- Checks material, equipment and manpower requirements, and conducts pre-job meetings and job safety analysis with crew.

- Checks time sheets, material stores orders, work order face sheets, construction sketches, and other reports

- Climbs ladders, poles, and towers on a daily or continuous basis as required or determined by supervisor.

- Communicates with customers and safety staff to solve power problems and satisfy electric utility needs, along with reports major outages, physical changes in lines or switches, serious accidents, and to request assistance.

- Completes reports and forms related to assigned projects and comprehends and makes inferences from written material.

- Contacts customers requesting hold tags, switching changes, or other operating requirements. Meets scheduling and attendance requirements. Installs personal protective grounds.

- Determines the equipment, tools, materials, and manpower needed to complete assigned projects.

- Detects natural gas leaks when working on underground cable, distinguishes colors to identify circuits and color-coded electrical connectors and establishes and maintains electric line clearances with other utilities.

- Inspects the work of Linemen, Linemen Apprentice, and Electric Utility Equipment Operators to ensure compliance with prescribed operating and safety standards.

- Installs and terminates high-voltage connectors; transformers and switches in manholes and vaults, securing equipment, and cables; and various service lines, power poles, meters, and metering device.

- It is the foreman’s responsibility to recognize areas for potential improvement and to report any “near miss” events in order for the crew members to learn from those events with the goal of preventing future accidents and report all incidents/accidents to the safety specialist as soon as possible.

- Maintains time reporting records of the crew and approves employee leave.

- Prioritizes work assignments, plans, coordinates, and directs the work of various size crews, which may include different crew compositions.

- Provides lead supervision over workers involved in maintaining, installing, and repairing underground and overhead power distribution and service lines, transformers, meters, metering equipment, and related equipment.

- Reads and interprets construction plans and schematics (related to the installation of electrical power distribution lines).

- Responsible for supervising personnel and overseeing equipment, materials, and recordkeeping duties.

- Other duties as assigned.

Success Factors:

- Thorough understanding of Electrical Theory and the safety regulations and work methods associated with electrical line work.

- Understanding of underground line construction and maintenance.

- Ability to safely and effectively operate the tools of the trade and the heavy and light equipment associated with electrical line work.

- Physical capabilities required to safely operate a motor vehicle, in all driving condition

- Possesses sight, strength and coordination necessary to safely and effectively operate heavy and light equipment and tools.

- Duties entail full-body exertion, strenuous lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling. required to stand, walk; and use hands to finger, handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls.

- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.

- Frequent travel for training may be required. Callouts for overtime work, including storm work, will occur

- Being able to multi-task and work in a schedule-driven environment a must.

- Possesses sight, strength and coordination necessary to safely and effectively operate heavy and light equipment and tools.

- Lifts up to 60 pounds.

- Climbs poles and works at heights.

- Duties entail full-body exertion, strenuous lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling.

Experience and Education:

- A High School Diploma or GED preferred

- A minimum of 5 years’ project construction experience in related fields.

- Must have 2 years’ experience as Journeyman Lineman.

- Complete OSHA 10hr Safety Training Program within 60 days.

- Complete OSHA 30hr Safety Training Program.

- Completion of Cover-Up Course and Critical review; along with recommendations from Operations, Safety/Training. A demonstrated ability to be a team leader with strong interpersonal and site management skills is a must as well as a working knowledge of computers and applicable computer programs.

- Must have ability for frequent travel on needed training requirements and potential for overtime including storm work.

Additional Requirements/Licenses/Certifications:

- Possession of, or ability to obtain, a valid State of Residence Driver License is required.

- Must have a CDL A License and current medical examiner card

- Candidates must pass criminal and Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) background checks and pass a pre-employment drug screen.

Notes:

The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the employer.

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