Senior Construction Manager - Early T&D Development

Position Overview

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your future with Qualus in our Program Management department as a Senior Construction Manager. The Senior Construction Manager is responsible for ensuring that constructability meets Qualus and our clients’ expectations of the quality of each assigned project, to ensure compliance within required construction codes, local jurisdictional requirements, budgetary, scheduling, and safety goals. Employees in this role provide field‑based constructability and feasibility insight during the development of transmission and substation capital projects.

The role supports early assessments, ensuring that design and planning efforts incorporate field conditions and requirements necessary for future construction.

• Conduct constructability and site‑feasibility reviews during project development for identified shelf projects
• Validate access, workspace, and site conditions
• Provide input on anticipated construction constraints and risks to engineering and project management to support project development.
• Support outage‑feasibility planning during early development
• Review preliminary designs and material plans for field practicality
• Aggressively manage and inspect the day‑to‑day activities of multiple electric contractor crews, for substation and transmission line project work.
• Facilitate the installation of electric infrastructure and ensure that all safety standards, company construction standards, company specifications, and governmental regulations are met.
• Manage work to ensure that all performance objectives for cycle time and cost are on target.
• Oversee and direct contractors performing electric cable installations and electric cut‑ins.
• Make the proper notification to all federal, state and local agencies before, during and after construction as required.
• Prior to commencement of construction, coordinate with customer(s) at the jobsite to determine specific customer requirements, construction sequencing and provide site readiness verification.
• Maintain frequent and regular contact with contractor supervision regarding job performance and document results appropriately.
• Be knowledgeable about distribution contracts.
• Ensure that the terms and conditions of the contract and technical specifications are met.
• Verify key unit quantities.
• Make the necessary field decisions regarding job changes and communicate them as necessary to the Supervisor and Program or Project Manager; document all job changes to ensure compliance and ensure the updates get documented in the appropriate information technology systems.
• Schedule and coordinate all required electric system outages. Perform weekly safety audits of crews and document performance in the Asset Suite Safety Audit/Observation Tool.
• Coordinate permit and work‑with requirements with third party utilities and permit agencies.
• Review and approve all documents submitted by the contractor verifying the accuracy and completeness of the documentation.
• Regularly communicate job status to the appropriate parties to facilitate scheduling commitments.
• Maintain customer coordination during construction phase and conduct job walk‑down with customer and contractor at job completion.
• Perform storm duty assignments as needed.
• Report to service center, jobsite, or remote location.

• Thorough knowledge of company work, environmental, and safety practices, including a working knowledge of electric operations and the ability to maintain or obtain switching and outage authorization.
• 15+ years of experience with materials, construction standards, regulations (OSHA), and safety requirements for electric distribution and substation construction.
• Thorough knowledge of PC and job/work management applications including AS8, Atlas, Mobile Maps, and MS Office Suite.
• In‑depth knowledge of materials, construction standards, regulations (OSHA), and safety requirements for electric distribution and substation construction.

Qualus benefits offered include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short and Long‑Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays, for those who qualify.

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