Lighting Specialist

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The locations for this position are Gastonia, Hickory, or Shelby, North Carolina. This person must reside within the service territory of the region they serve.

Job Summary:

This position is responsible and accountable for direct oversight and execution of lighting construction and maintenance activities. Ensures the adherence to safe work practices, construction standards, work methods and procedures. Position serves as single point of contact for all lighting construction crew utilization with a focus on improving overall job costs, quality and timeliness through work planning, job execution, inspection process, audits, crew productivity, site and dependency management, job design review, required material, time and equipment management.

Support customer satisfaction efforts by collaboration with local company and contractor management, peers and peer organizations to meet customer commitment dates.

Responsibilities:

Responsible and accountable for managing job readiness, maximizing crew productivity and adherence to the work plan Ensure the safe and efficient utilization of construction resources to meet the work plan. This positions works to ensure customer needs are met while working with internal partners.

Accountable/Responsible for the contractor crews managing and executing an assigned 2 week work schedule as detailed in the work flow process.

Accountable/responsible for job readiness checks working with appropriate contractor field leadership and crews.

Document any anomalies in the work plan, and then actively managing this block of work while communicating with Resource Management to correct or resolve issues impacting the work plan.

Monitor progress of work orders assigned to resources under the control of this position.

Perform crew safety, productivity and quality assessments, job reviews and provide Work Orders field statuses…etc.

Work with appropriate organization(s) to support process improvement (Zone Operations, R&PM, Engineering, Contractor Management, Supply chain…etc).The Construction Specialist will also partner at times with the CM Specialist and Contractor Specialists within their geographic area of responsibility as contractor resource support is needed for emergent work (i.e., restoration, post storm sweeps, etc.). The Lighting Construction Specialist will be the primary contact for any lighting contractor resource request(s) for local support to a CM Operations Center.

Adjusts, assigns and executes contractor construction, maintenance and restoration activities

Provide feedback to the Scheduler, or appropriate parties, on rescheduling reasons; including, any work plan adherence variations, or emerging issues that will result in carry-over work or unfinished tasks in a timely manner.

Monitor and report on the construction crew work status.

Monitor daily crew complements.

Arranges any equipment and material needs.

Adjust estimated man-hours as appropriate to complete work requests.

Ensures construction crews have appropriate job specific information for each work request or order. Secures the pertinent job information (work requests, work orders, drawings, and material list).Monitor and adjust scheduled work…