Electrical Superintendent - Solar - Louisiana

Black & Veatch Family of Companies • Bogalusa, LA

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About The Position

The Electrical Superintendent monitors and coordinates solar construction activities, direct-hire supervision, field engineering, craft productivity, and performance. The role ensures that discipline craft work follows safety, quality, schedule, performance, procedural, and contractual requirements. It provides craft supervisors with technical direction and project information, communicates schedule expectations across craft levels, and coordinates interpretation of technical requirements.

The position oversees assigned work scope and helps ensure the labor, materials, and other resources needed for planned work are available. It coordinates with other discipline Superintendents or Facilitators, the Construction Manager, field project controls, and subcontract administration. The role supervises general foremen, foremen, and minor subcontractor supervision, and provides supervision, training, development, and performance management to direct reports. It is considered safety sensitive and involves work in construction-site and office environments, including physically demanding outdoor work and exposure to varied conditions.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of construction field leadership experience on equivalent projects.
• Valid driver's license.
• OSHA 10 certification.
• Ability to complete applicable pre-employment onboarding requirements, which may include criminal/civil background checks, drug screening, and motor vehicle records searches.
• Ability to lift and carry items weighing up to 50 pounds; stand, kneel, bend, stoop, move, and walk long distances; use hands to handle tools or controls and perform repetitive movements; climb and balance on steel framework, stairs, ladders, and scaffolds; and work at heights above 5 feet when required.
• Ability to work shifts of up to 12 hours performing hard physical labor in varying temperature extremes and outdoor conditions.
• Ability to work in cramped spaces and awkward positions, around hazardous equipment, and in hot or cold temperatures, inclement weather, varying light, and distracting or uncomfortable noise.

Nice To Haves

• Construction Management or Engineering degree.
• Training in reporting safety, cost, quality, and schedule information.
• Construction management and contract administration training.
• Knowledge of company construction guides and manuals.
• Knowledge of union agreements and jurisdictional issues.
• Construction safety awareness and comprehension.
• Conflict management skills.
• Ability to multitask, prioritize, organize, and schedule work.
• Problem-solving skills, including identifying, analyzing, researching, evaluating, and resolving issues.
• Project management skills.
• Supervisory skills.
• Communication skills.
• Constructability knowledge in the electrical discipline and other disciplines.
• Risk assessment and management skills.
• Knowledge of cost-code labor productivity systems.
• Knowledge of time-reporting policies and procedures.
• Knowledge of construction guides and standards.
• Computer skills.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, verify, and report solar construction activities for compliance with the CPM schedule; track completion of schedule activities and commodity installation.
• Help craft resolve problems and report issues involving drawings and information, schedule, quality, quantity tracking, cost reporting, and safety.
• Monitor discipline construction productivity, progress, and cost, and report to the Construction Manager and Field Project Controls Manager.
• Take necessary actions to maintain targets and develop corrective plans to meet progress and productivity targets.
• Conduct foreman meetings to review and assist with daily, weekly, and monthly planning.
• Develop and monitor a three-week look-ahead schedule for assigned work scope.
• Verify that materials, manpower, and resources required for the three-week look-ahead schedule are available and on site.
• Develop, monitor, and report completion of craft and subcontractor punch-list activities.
• Maintain a daily site record log.
• Review craft timesheets, installed-quantity reports, and progress-payment requests.
• Monitor supplier Technical Service Representative daily logs and review and approve their timesheets.
• Coordinate assigned craft daily and weekly work plans with other discipline Superintendents or Facilitators and the Construction Manager.
• Assist the Field Subcontract Administrator in preparing extra-work authorization requests (RFMPs/WAs).
• Assist the Construction Engineer with compiling or answering Contractor Information Requests.
• Administer execution of work packages and equipment installation.
• Develop and distribute Job Hazard Analyses for major erection packages within scope.
• Identify potential back charges and out-of-scope issues and report them to the Construction Manager.
• Support the commercial recovery process.
• Provide supervision, training, development, and performance management to direct reports.
• Supervise general foremen, foremen, and minor subcontractor supervision.
• Adhere to applicable safety and quality standards.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Disability insurance
• Wellness program
• Flexible work schedules
• Paid vacation
• Paid holidays
• Sick time and dependent sick time
• Company-matched 401(k) plan
• Adoption reimbursement
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vendor discounts
• Employment referral program
• AD&D insurance
• Pre-tax accounts
• Voluntary legal plan
• B&V Credit Union
• Potential eligibility for a performance-based bonus program
• Employee stock ownership and participation in the financial rewards of company success

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed