Electrical Foreman

Encore Electric, Inc. is a licensed Colorado Electrical Contractor with consistent work. Come work for a reputable contractor that will keep you busy!

Overview:

The Electrical Foreman supervises Apprentices and Journeymen, taking ultimate accountability for project or subset of project. The Electrical Foreman directs the tasks of Journeymen and Apprentice electricians and participates in residential/commercial/industrial/electrical construction and service work.

COMPENSATION: $42.00 - $55.00 per hour
HOURS: 40+ hours per week (schedules vary depending on job site)
PERKS:leadership opportunities, stable work, job site incentive pay, benefits, and more!

General Responsibilities:

• Works with a commitment to safety
• Upholds the core values of Encore Electric
• Acts as a professional and uses basic work ethics
  • Comes to work on time every day with appropriate attire and tools
• Keeps work area clean
• Installs quality work in a neat and workmanship like manner
• Treats tools with respect
• Works and climbs on ladders, lifts, and elevated platforms
• Identifies electrical parts and components
• Perform strenuous physical work i.e., digging, kneeling, shoveling, lifting, pulling, pushing, climbing
• Keeps up with changing technology
• Keeps up with the national electrical code
• Wears tools at all required times
• Work in all weather conditions

Specific Responsibilities:

Leadership

• Supervise Foreman, Journeymen, and Apprentices actively presenting leadership skills at the highest level
• Supervise crews installing raceways, pulling wire, and mounting equipment, training apprentices and journeymen to do the same
• Act as the go-to person in the field
• Establish, maintain, promote and participate in Encore’s mentoring program
• Train, develop, mentor and coach up and coming various levels of future supervision
• Motivate crew and project, keeping morale up on projects
• Communicate goals for the job site to employees working at all levels of Encore Electric, Inc. using the tell-back procedure
• Promote continuing education
• Layout and organizes assigned tasks for apprentices and journeymen
• Lead by example

Process Improvement

• Engage and help to develop new Encore standards and processes and hold others accountable for them
• Participate in Foremen meetings
• Help to develop phase codes for the project

Risk Management

• Take accountability and responsibility forsafety, quality control, and productivityin his/her area ensuring employees do it safely, do it right, then work on speed and other projects
• Catch and correct errors
• Ensure employees follow policies and procedures, by:
  • Enforcing company cell phone usage
    • Taking accountability for counseling and correcting employees acting as a witness and raising the flag when something isn’t right
• Ensuring employees work safely wearing all proper Personal Protective Equipment
• Ensure the crew has adequate tools, materials, craftsmen, and labor force
• Maintain a secondary and in some cases third plan
• Take daily accountability of project/crews and stages of project progress
• Find and avoid potential crises/fixing problems when necessary
• Serve as a frontline field representative
• Educate others as to basic building codes and life safety
• Track material and purchase orders
• Communicate and coordinate with other trades for the project
• Orientate employees to safety, logistics, and scope on the job site
• Review rigging plans for equipment
• Perform take-offs
• May perform hot work if qualified and trained with all necessary precautions in place
• Take accountability for their continuing education including:
• Level of foremanship classes
• Keeping up with changing technology
• Keeping up with the national electrical code
• OSHA 30

Customer Service

• Act proactively with customer and design team and value engineering and constructability
• Read and understand Request for Information, Job Labor Production Report
• Preplan the project to stay at least two weeks ahead of the crew ensuring the work and material are available for the crew, including:
  • Ordering material and tools for the job site, ensuring preplanning has been done
  • Acting conscientiously about costs
  • Ordering prefab for job site
  • Keeping a daily to-do list
  • Understanding the abilities of the crew
  • Scheduling and accurately man loads crew…