Senior Construction Site Coordinator - Eastern Potomac Edison

FirstEnergy • Williamsport, MD

57d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Construction Site Coordinator (CSC) has responsibility to coordinate and supervise pre-construction, construction, and post-construction activities for Transmission and Distribution substation and line projects. This position can be based out of Williamsport, MD; Frederick, MD or Martinsburg, WV service territories.

Requirements

• Bachelors in Construction Management, or related technical field with 8 years’ experience in commercial or industrial construction required.
• In lieu of degree, 12 years’ of experience in commercial or industrial construction required.
• Ability to provide constructability review feedback for projects through initial and detailed engineering plans review.
• Proactively identifies potential issues relating to all facets of project construction and safety and offers suitable alternatives to design teams.
• Ability to Mentor junior CSC’s in relationship to all Time Management activities.
• Ability to Mentor junior CSC’s in relationship to all Cost Management activities.
• Ability to review schedules and identify unreasonable durations, missing logical links, or potential ideas for improvement on time performance.
• Mentor junior CSC’s in respect to quality standards, interpretation of quality requirements and other quality control and assurance knowledge.
• Mentor junior CSCs on the development and implementation of risk management plans.
• Mentors junior CSC's on development of Project Communications Plan.
• Mentors junior CSCs on stakeholder management practices.

Responsibilities

• Fostering a high performing safety culture through personal conduct and utilization of human performance principles.
• Participating with the project team to develop the contractor bid packages and simultaneously assist the team in reviewing the received bids.
• Participating in pre-bid meetings, document, and follow up on the action points.
• Performing constructability reviews.
• Reviewing the conceptual scope with the entire project team and the project manager.
• Conducting preliminary site reviews and gather local expertise feedback on various aspects of the project.
• Coordinating the material request, need date & location, delivery and verification of materials at the project site, staging, and monitoring for contractor use.
• Coordinating staking of structures, wetlands and vegetation as part of the project’s scope assessment.
• Ensuring adherence to safety and quality standards and specifications.
• Inspecting work performed by contractors against design and construction standards.
• Documenting project site meetings with contractors that address issues such as safety, performance, quality control, or adherence to construction schedules.
• Ensuring all the stakeholders have necessary permit copies.
• Maintaining digital / printed copy of the red line drawings of the project site.
• Participating in contractor evaluation, project review meetings and meetings concerning “lessons learned.”
• Reviewing the construction schedule and outage strategies.
• Verifying critical contractor field testing, including but not limited to soil compaction, concrete (slump) testing, cylinder testing, and grounding testing.
• Performing post energization testing and identify long term incomplete items.
• Ability to lead construction related scope change discussions with vendors' site representatives.
• Ability to provide expert construction input during the scope development phase of the project.
• Ability to provide input on the timing of construction activities and milestones during the development phase of the projects.
• Ability to review schedules and identify unreasonable durations, missing logical links, or potential ideas for improvement on time performance.
• Ability to provide input on the cost of construction activities, and that related to access, matting, and other means and methods driven costs, during the development phase of the projects.
• Document project quality outcomes and lessons learned in a format suitable for comparison and analysis.
• Document project resource utilization metrics and identifies gaps and areas for improvement.
• Communicate designated staff and vendor responsibilities, authority and personal performance measurement criteria, to ensure clarity of understanding of the work on site.
• Conduct peer risk review for high-risk projects to ensure all risks are identified, and a plan is in action to mitigate those risks.
• Provide quality assurance on completeness of communication plans.
• Actively participates in initial contractor coordination meeting, closeout meeting, and other major milestone meetings.
• Provide Supply Chain with scoring and evaluation for suppliers and vendors that includes performance evaluation, lessons learned, and opportunities for improvement.
• Complete payment and invoice reviews as outlined by FET Policies and Procedures.
• Conduct regular project assessment sessions with various stakeholders associated within the project.
• Improve understanding and effective implementation of safety management systems — enable individuals to increase their knowledge of the specific ways in which hazards are managed, as well as their ability to apply and implement the actual Occupational Health & Safety (OH&S) processes.
• Personalize safety outcomes — make OH&S more obvious, relevant and emotional for the individual to personalize their role in preventing and eliminating risks and hazards.
• Engage with sub-contractors in OH&S performance management.

Benefits

• competitive pay plus incentive compensation
• a company-sponsored pension plan
• 401(k) savings plan with matching employer contribution
• a choice of medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, and life insurance programs
• skills development training with tuition reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior