Electrical Foreman

An Electrical Foreman is responsible for planning, organizing, and scheduling crews to complete assigned work orders. This includes assigning tasks, ensuring high-quality installation, performing quality inspections, monitoring task completion and compliance, and preventing safety issues.

Responsibilities

• Plan productivity for the assigned scope of work.
• Organize material phasing by specific areas or floors and keep track of inventory.
• Identify tools and equipment needed for each crew, assign gang boxes, and conduct tool inspections.
• Prepare information packages for each crew activity, including drawings, schedules, and cut sheets.
• Control breaks and monitor loss time related to personal breaks, smoking, and conversations.
• Submit daily hour/unit reports for each crew member using the standard time sheet.
• Conduct quality control inspections following established plans and checklists.
• Ensure work is installed professionally and to high-quality standards.
• Maintain and update as-built drawings weekly and log them onto master record drawings.
• Inventory tools and equipment daily, ensure accountability and security, and submit inspection sheets weekly.
• Report lost, stolen, or damaged tools.
• Review and store all AHA’s related to the scope of work at crew gang boxes.
• Submit weekly equipment inspection sheets for all assigned equipment.
• Follow procedures for reporting and investigating accidents or incidents, submitting reports within 24 hours.
• Oversee cleanup, ensuring work areas are broom-swept at day’s end.

Quality Standards

• Ensure installation meets or exceeds codes, contractual obligations, and best practices.
• Implement and document the Project Quality Plan, addressing deviations with site Q.C. approval.
• Participate in 3-Phase Quality Control, including preparatory, initial, and follow-up inspections.
• Document inspections and facilitate adherence to QAQC schedules.
• Initiate discrepancy notices to document and communicate issues.
• Review weekly quality scorecards and address systemic issues.
• Address ongoing quality issues and resolve nonconformities promptly.
• Participate in QAQC design reviews for constructability issues.
• Provide feedback during daily work briefings on quality matters.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in the electrical industry with a High School diploma or GED.
• 4+ years of experience with an Associate degree.

Abilities

• Ability to lift, carry, and move objects weighing up to 50 pounds, following safety protocols.
• Ability to relocate a 12-foot stepladder without assistance.
• Work at heights up to 60 feet, climbing scaffolds, lifts, and ladders.
• Perform physical activities such as walking, climbing, lifting, squatting, crawling, kneeling, pushing, pulling, and reaching overhead.
• Good vision (corrected if necessary), color vision, hearing, and English communication skills.
• Operate standard ladders and tools safely within weight limits.
• Recognize problems or potential issues, apply rules to specific problems, and synthesize information.
• See details at close range and understand spoken information.