Resource Coordinator

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The Resource Coordinator is responsible for recruiting, staffing, and allocating skilled trade personnel to support project execution. This role works closely with the Superintendents, and Field Operations Managers to ensure the right workforce is available to meet project schedules, budgets, and quality standards.

By owning execution follow-through and visibility, this role reduces delays, prevents dropped handoffs, and minimizes reactive escalation, enabling leadership to trust that once decisions are made, execution will reliably follow. This role does not make hiring, staffing, or delivery decisions; it ensures those decisions are executed cleanly, visibly, and predictably.

This role sits at the center of hiring, employee engagement, and resource planning, tracking manpower movement and assisting with temp. labor assignments.

Reports to:

Director of Operations

• Generate, monitor, and control Job Postings
• Source qualified candidates through job boards, referrals, and industry networks
• Screen resumes, reschedule / conduct interviews, and evaluate candidate qualifications using Icon Electric interview tools
• Verify licenses, certifications, and work eligibility
• Coordinate hiring, onboarding, and orientation processes
• Coordinate hiring needs with HR and management
• Maintain relationships with staffing agencies for temporary labor

• Assist with field personnel assignments and dispatching, based on; skillset, experience, certifications, and project requirements
• Collaborate with Project Managers, Field Operations Managers, and other relevant staff to assist to review and monitor manpower forecasting
• Assist Field Operations Team with adjusting manpower levels as projects ramp up or down
• Coordinate workforce movement between job sites using Manpower Tracker spreadsheet
• Assist with dispatching electricians to new project assignments
• Lead Temp Labor Management
• Maintain Staffing Trackers and Tools

• Maintain an up-to-date workforce database (skills, certifications, availability)
• Track workforce levels by project (headcount, roles, hours)
• Assist Project Managers and Field Operations Team with monitoring and reporting average labor rate across projects
• Assist with identifying workforce gaps and proactively plan recruitment strategies

• Support employee engagement and retention initiatives
• Coordinate training, certifications, and apprenticeship development
• Assist in performance tracking and career progression planning
• Assist with monitoring and scheduling reviews and follow ups for quarterly performance objectives

• Ensure all personnel meet licensing and certification requirements
• Verify compliance with safety standards (OSHA, site-specific requirements)

• Experience working within union and non-union trade labor environments
• Knowledge of local labor markets and trade schools
• Familiarity with construction project scheduling and manpower planning
• Proven ability to coordinate across multiple teams, without direct authority
• Comfortable operating in fast moving, delivery-critical environments with competing priorities
• Clear and Concise communicator, with strong judgment and escalation instincts
• Detail-Oriented, with a high degree of accountability and ownership
• Self-starter, with integrity, professionalism, and sound discretion.

• 3–7 years of experience in electrical construction, staffing, or workforce management
• Strong knowledge of trade electrical roles (foremen, journeymen, apprentices, ect.)
• Excellent organizational and communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously
• Proven success tracking decisions, commitments, dependencies, and outcomes across cross-functional initiatives

• High School diploma, GED, or equivalent training
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook); experience with workforce tracking systems is a plus

• Work 40 hours per week and overtime if required
• Ability to safely lift and carry 50 lbs., unassisted
• Job may require…