Underground Electrician/Operator

POSITION SUMMARY

Ensure safety of team members and customers. Manage staff to achieve project deadlines, quality, and budget. Work closely with customers and team to maximize customer satisfaction. Maximize team effectiveness through efficient scheduling, keeping the team focused and delivering the highest quality.

Ensure Safety of Team Members and Customers

- Make safety a priority in work-related decisions.

- Identify and address safety violations. Use as a teaching tool.

- Identify and address hazardous conditions on the job. Maintain a clean and organized jobsite.

Manage Staff to Achieve Project Budget

- Schedule material orders to arrive as needed in the project.

- Complete assessment of work done, and hours associated, e.g., weekly cost codes.

- Review submittal packages to ensure submitted materials are correct for engineered design.

- Verify quantity counts, e.g., the number of light fixtures compared to drawings.

- Conduct pre-construction meeting with project manager and superintendent. Create 90% material list.

- Review job plans with project manager and superintendent, i.e. job lay-out, equipment and manpower.

- Ensure change order (COR) information gets to project manager immediately and is installed upon general contractor approval.

Manage Staff to Achieve Project Quality Control & Assurance

- Evaluate manpower skill sets to provide performance feedback to superintendent.

- Develop installation crews to maximize installation efficiency and minimize quality control mistakes.

- Verify installations meet requirements for quality and timeliness and code, Architect/Designer & AHJ.

- Ensure installation matches request for information (RFI) responses, SKE directives and delta revisions

Maximize Customer Satisfaction and Project Deadlines

- Identify general contractors’ major tasks for next week, i.e. 7 day look ahead.

- Draft crew and sub crew lists for major tasks.

- Coordinate job schedule with general contractor and other trades and advise of changes in advance.

- Maintain clear friendly relationships with outward entities: inspectors, clients, employees, future clients.

Maximize Team Efficiency

- Clarify directives of product install based on engineered drawings and internal design.

- Audit product installations - identify new and old efficiencies and relay suggested ideas for improvement to superintendent.

- Coach field employees for correction, speed, and efficiency.

OTHER TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES

- Timely submission of misc. paperwork to Administrative team members

- Coordination with HR on items related to crew members on your site

- Other duties as assigned

REQUIRED SKILLS/ABILITIES

- Must have good command of the English language - verbal and written.

- Must have good trade & NEC knowledge.

- Must be mechanically inclined.

- Team player with good customer and people skills

- Ability to read blueprints and other technical materials.

- Ability to use hand tools and power tools proficiently.

- Good analytical and problem-solving skills

- Skilled and proficient at running conduit ½” to 4”, including duct banks of various shapes and sizes.

- Ability to operate or work around heavy equipment and machinery – excavators, skid steers, vibratory tamps, lifts, cranes, etc.

- Utility construction experience preferred.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS & WORKING CONDITIONS

- Must be able to see color to discern color-coded wiring.

- Must be able to bend, stoop, squat, crawl, climb, kneel, balance, push, pull, and reach over head – all for extended periods of time.

- Must be willing to work both indoors and out at all times of the year.

- Able to Climb ladders (all types) and work from scaffolds and lifts.

- Ability to lift and/or carry up to 51 pounds unassisted