Electrician Foreman

Overview

Supervises electrical crews, ensures safety, quality, and project completion

Key Responsibilities

• material tracking
• as‑built drawings
• take‑offs
• resource estimating
• project preplanning
• code compliance

Tasks

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

Requirements

• high school
• osha 30
• journeyman license
• apprenticeship
• leadership
• computer

What You Bring

-Read and understand Request for Information, Job Labor Production Report -Read and understand basic blueprints -Spatial orientation -Lifting, floor to waist (up to 50lbs) -Communicating proactively with Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) -Level of foremanship classes -Motivate crew and project, keeping morale up on projects -Speaking intelligently -Adapting to new and changing requirements, environments, and/or information -Understand when to speak and when not to speak -High School Diploma or equivalent is required -Conceptual estimating (conceiving a project in your mind and all the components of that project) -Four years of apprenticeship training or three years of apprenticeship training with a two-year degree from technical college is required -Familiar with all phases of the construction project -Lifting, floor to chest (up to 50lbs) -Completion of Leadership Level I Leadership (Supervision) is preferred -One year of experience as a leadman and a Journeyman Wireman’s license from the State of Colorado is required -Carrying (up to 50lbs) -A functional physical is required to be completed and passed before work can be performed in all field positions. The physical requirements can often be completed repetitively and for extended periods. These requirements include: -Pulling (up to 100lbs) -Demonstrated leadership skills are required -A degree in a related field is preferred -OSHA 30 -Operating a computer -Constructability and the construction process -Effective written and oral communication sufficient to be able to elicit and communicate information and achieve understanding -Acts as a professional and uses basic work ethics -Reading and writing -Algebra and geometry -Pushing (up to 100lbs) -Vision acuity (near, far, and without color deficiencies) -Lifting, waist to overhead (up to 30lbs each arm) -Understanding the abilities of the crew -Constantly carry a writing instrument and notepad -Financial math

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Benefits

-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. -Generous Employee Referral Program! -An Employee Assistance Program that includes counseling, legal and financial advice. -Encore is a legacy company that has a strong track record of promoting from within our workforce. There is a career path for you at Encore! -A retirement plan, including an employee-matched 401(k). -Receive Paid Time Off (PTO) and all major holidays. -You will have access to Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance. We have Benefit Programs that include a no cost option for our employees. -Walk jobs and: -This position is eligible for cell phone allowances and the 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. -Get technical, safety, personal finance, and leadership training through “Encore University”. This program is at no cost to our employees and will help further your personal growth and your career! -Employees have access to Short-Term, Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance.

About Encore Electric, Inc.

-Founded with a vision to deliver high-quality electrical services, the company has grown into a leading contractor in the U.S. -The company specializes in providing electrical solutions for complex, large-scale projects across a variety of sectors. -The company has extensive experience in diverse industries, including energy, commercial, industrial, and infrastructure. -Their portfolio includes work on notable projects such as large commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and transportation systems. -They are known for executing projects safely, efficiently, and within budget, establishing long-lasting relationships with clients. -The company's expert teams are adept at handling everything from design and engineering to installation and maintenance of electrical systems. -The company's diverse expertise extends to sectors such as energy, infrastructure, and heavy civil works, highlighting their versatility. -Their ability to innovate and adapt to complex project requirements has set them apart as a trusted partner for both public and private sector initiatives.

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