Electrical Foreman

Description

• Participate in Foremen meetings
• Ensure the crew has adequate tools, materials, craftsmen, and labor force
• Establish, maintain, promote and participate in Encore’s mentoring program
• Prioritize according to the needs of the project and the customer
• Effectively communicates with superiors
• Promote continuing education
• Works and climbs on ladders, lifts, and elevated platforms
• Identifies electrical parts and components
• Supervise crews installing raceways, pulling wire, and mounting equipment, training apprentices and journeymen to do the same
• Serve as a frontline field representative
• Taking accountability for counseling and correcting employees acting as a witness and raising the flag when something isn’t right
• Track material and purchase orders
• Ordering prefab for job site
• The construction process from scheduling to manpower to the labor, materials, and equipment required for installation
• Keeping up with changing technology
• Operate computer including email, Microsoft Office, and scheduling software
• Ordering material and tools for the job site, ensuring preplanning has been done
• Educate others as to basic building codes and life safety
• Review rigging plans for equipment
• Keeping a daily to-do list
• Layout and organizes assigned tasks for apprentices and journeymen
• Act as the go-to person in the field
• Evaluate project
• Perform strenuous physical work i.e., digging, kneeling, shoveling, lifting, pulling, pushing, climbing
• Find and avoid potential crises/fixing problems when necessary
• Preplan the project to stay at least two weeks ahead of the crew ensuring the work and material are available for the crew, including:
• Act proactively with customer and design team and value engineering and constructability
• Use electrical formulas to figure out pipe fill, device, and panel size, and disconnect
• Wears tools at all required times
• Accountable for daily logs for his area, providing input and communicating with immediate supervisor
• Perform daily huddles (i.e., up and coming tasks)
• Ensuring employees work safely wearing all proper Personal Protective Equipment
• Take daily accountability of project/crews and stages of project progress
• Keeps up with changing technology
• Update and maintain accurate as-built drawings and panel schedules for their assigned task
• Communicating the big picture to customers and employees
• Enforcing company cell phone usage
• Engage and help to develop new Encore standards and processes and hold others accountable for them
• Write and track intelligent Request for Information sheets
• Abide by specifications, value engineering, and contract documents for installations
• Help to develop phase codes for the project
• Read and understand contract documents for the project
• Train, develop, mentor and coach up and coming various levels of future supervision
• Effectively communicate and define employee’s role with them on the project, ensuring employee understands how they fit into the overall job and how the foreman wants their work done, by:
• Keeps work area clean
• Installs quality work in a neat and workmanship like manner
• Treats tools with respect
• Scheduling and accurately man loads crew communicating with other foremen
• Develop meeting agenda/run meeting
• Trimming (final installation of electrical devices)
• Communicate and coordinate with other trades for the project
• Maintain a secondary and in some cases third plan
• Ensure employees follow policies and procedures, by:
• Provide job walk report
• Work in all weather conditions
• Take accountability for their continuing education including:
• Comes to work on time every day with appropriate attire and tools
• Establish material handling required for the job
• Supervise Foreman, Journeymen, and Apprentices actively presenting leadership skills at the highest level
• Keeping up with the national electrical code
• Perform take-offs
• Proactively pushes the job
• Take accountability for a neat and clean work area
• Take accountability and responsibility for safety, quality control, and productivity in his/her area ensuring employees do it safely, do it right, then work on speed and other projects
• Efficiently and proactively identify long-range milestones and short-range goals
• Keeps up with the national electrical code
• Participate and take notes in meetings
• Provide feedback to Foreman, Project Manager, Board of Directors, or Director of Project Resources as needed
• Orientate employees to safety, logistics, and scope on the job site
• Create punch list for crew and follows up to ensure it is completed
• Communicate goals for the job site to employees working at all levels of Encore Electric, Inc. using the tell-back procedure

Requirements

• Lifting, floor to chest (up to 50lbs)
• Carrying (up to 50lbs)
• Demonstrated leadership skills are required
• Motivate crew and project, keeping morale up on projects
• Lifting, floor to waist (up to 50lbs)
• OSHA 30
• Read and understand basic blueprints
• Communicating proactively with Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ)
• Algebra and geometry
• One year of experience as a leadman and a Journeyman Wireman’s license from the State of Utah is required
• Financial math
• Vision acuity (near, far, and without color deficiencies)
• Familiar with all phases of the construction project
• Four years of apprenticeship training or three years of apprenticeship training with a two-year degree from technical college is required
• Understanding the abilities of the crew
• High School Diploma or equivalent is required
• A degree in a related field is preferred
• Lifting, waist to overhead (up to 30lbs each arm)
• Constantly carry a writing instrument and notepad
• Read and understand Request for Information, Job Labor Production Report
• Completion of Leadership Level I Leadership (Supervision) is preferred
• Pushing (up to 100lbs)
• Constructability and the construction process
• Acts as a professional and uses basic work ethics
• Level of foremanship classes
• Pulling (up to 100lbs)

Benefits

• Walk jobs and:
• COMPENSATION: competitive hourly rate + eligibility for overtime + annual merit increases based on performance
• PERKS: opportunity for growth, long-term work, stability, a great team to work with, full benefits, in-house training, & more!
• This position is eligible for a cell phone allowances and short-term incentive program.
• Encore Electric provides excellent benefits for our employees, including: medical, dental, and vision plans, disability, and life insurance, employee-matched 401(k), paid time off (PTO), an employee assistance program that includes counseling, legal, and financial advice.
• Encore also provides a generous employee referral program, and access to technical, safety, personal finance, and leadership training through Encore University, Encore’s in house training program.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance