Electrical Foreman

Encore Electric, Inc. is a licensed Montana Electrical Contractor with consistent work throughout the Gallatin Valley. 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.

BONUS: $4,000 sign on bonus for licensed journeymen & master electricians.
COMPENSATION: $53.75 - $62.50 per hour (an additional 20% is included in this rate for jobs in Big Sky).
HOURS: Monday - Thurs, 10 hour shifts.

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 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
• 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 communicating with other foremen
  • Efficiently and proactively identify long-range milestones and short-range goals
  • Prioritize according to the needs of the project and the customer
  • Update and maintain accurate as-built drawings and panel schedules for their assigned task
  • Create punch list for crew and follows up to ensure it is completed

• 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:
  • Communicating proactively with Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ)
  • Proactively pushes the job
  • Communicating the big picture to customers and employees
  • Effectively communicates with superiors
• Abide by specifications, value engineering, and contract documents for installations

General

• Familiar with all phases of the construction project
• Participate and take notes in meetings
• Constantly carry a writing instrument and notepad
• Walk jobs and:
  • Provide feedback to Foreman, Project Manager, Board of Directors, or Director of Project Resources as needed
  • Provide job walk report
  • Evaluate project
  • Assigned to other projects determined to have high risks 
  • Perform daily huddles (i.e., up and coming tasks)
  • Write and track intelligent Request for Information sheets
  • Accountable for daily logs for his area, providing input and communicating with immediate supervisor
  • Read and understand contract documents for the project
  • Develop meeting agenda/run meeting
  • Operate computer including email, Microsoft Office, and scheduling software
  • Use electrical formulas to figure out pipe fill, device, and panel size, and disconnect
  • Read and understand basic blueprints
  • Establish material handling required for the job
  • Perform duties as assigned by the supervisor
  • Take accountability for a neat and clean work area
  • Other duties as may be assigned

Knowledge of:

• The construction process from scheduling to manpower to the labor, materials, and equipment required for installation
• Constructability and the construction process
• Electrical construction to manage costs
• Electrical estimates to review costs
• Algebra and geometry
• Statistics
• Financial math

Physical Requirements:

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:

• • Driving
  • Sitting
  • Climbing
  • Lifting, floor to chest (up to 50lbs)
  • Lifting, floor to waist (up to 50lbs)
  • Lifting, waist to overhead (up to 30lbs each arm)
  • Carrying (up to 50lbs)
  • Standing
  • Stooping
  • Vision acuity (near, far, and without color deficiencies)
  • Walking
  • Kneeling
  • Trimming (final installation of electrical devices)
  • Pushing (up to 100lbs)
  • Pulling (up to 100lbs)

Requirements:

• High School Diploma or equivalent is required
• A degree in a related field is preferred
• Four years of apprenticeship training or three years of apprenticeship training with a two-year degree from technical college is required 
• One year of experience as a leadman and a Journeyman Wireman’s license from the State of Montana is required
• Demonstrated leadership skills are required
• Completion of Leadership Level I Leadership (Supervision) is preferred

Benefits:

• 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.
• This position is eligible for a  cell phone allowances.

Applications will close for this position on:   May 1, 2024

To request an accommodation during the application process, please contact HR@EncoreElectric.com.

Encore Electric, Inc. is an EOE, including disability/vets.