Supervisor, Underground Worker

Overview

Supervises underground electric distribution operations ensuring safety and reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• regulatory compliance
• team supervision
• stakeholder management
• workload management
• procurement oversight
• safety oversight

Tasks

-Execute all work tasks in compliance with all Company, Federal and State policy and regulatory requirements. -Supervise a culturally diverse workforce through coaching, counseling and team building to ensure tasks are carried out in an efficient manner. -Monitor performance of allocated Underground staff including issues relating to sickness, discipline and poor standards of work in order to ensure that work is performed efficiently and effectively. -Build good working relationships with internal & external customers and manage the day-to-day relationship with them in order to understand their requirements and deliver appropriate solutions within National Grid policies and processes. -Act as the Underground first point of contact for multiple internal stakeholders and outside agencies in order to provide support and ensure National Grid deliver against service level agreement. -Oversee the Underground Electric operational workload of team to ensure allocated resources are fully utilized in order to deliver against agreed upon work plan and execute work activities within planned unit and budget cost. -Review, ensure accuracy and execute the approval of area purchase orders, invoices and payroll activities. -Ensure supervised Underground Electric teams comply with safety standards, policies and processes in order to ensure a safe working environment and minimize risk for all staff.

Requirements

• bachelor's
• 5‑7 yrs
• leadership
• driver's license
• underground ops
• sop development

What You Bring

-Ability to perform off-hour coverage and provide sound decision-making during emergency situations. -Must have or possess the ability to develop knowledge and understanding of National Grid’s policies and processes and how to apply them effectively to the Underground Department. -Strong leadership, influencing, customer orientation and communication skills, providing the ability to promote team working and harmonious working between site staff, project teams and contractors. -Must have, or possess the ability to develop a working knowledge of information systems critical to the work management, financial reporting and performance tracking of the Underground Department. -Valid driver’s license with a safe driving history that meets National Grid’s Safe Driver policy (e.g., must not have more than one traffic violation in the last year and/or more than one motor vehicle accident within the past three years.) required. -A Bachelor's degree preferred in a related area or 5 to 7 years’ of related underground electric experience, or committed to ‘on the job’ training programs with practical experience of methods, processes and techniques relevant to area or discipline. -Ability and knowledge to develop standard operating procedures for field personnel to perform underground electric work and connections on energized distribution/transmission facilities is preferred. -Technically proficient within subject matter and experience of leading a team involved in underground field operations activities is preferred. -Must have demonstrated or possess the skills to build effective, respectful, working relationships.

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About National Grid

-Plays a critical role in delivering electricity and gas to millions of homes and businesses. -Operates in both the UK and US, ensuring safe and reliable energy distribution. -Deeply involved in the development of renewable energy infrastructure, including wind and solar projects. -Key projects include cross-border power links to improve energy security and integrating low-carbon solutions. -Continually innovates to meet growing energy demand while reducing environmental impact. -Operates in both electricity and natural gas distribution across a vast geographical area in the US. -Invests in sustainability initiatives and clean energy infrastructure.

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