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Company: Black & Veatch Family of Companies

Company : Overland Contracting Inc

Opportunity Type : Staff

Project Only Hire : No

Join the Overland Contracting (a Black & Veatch company) construction team and build with pride. As a 100% employee‑owned company, every role matters — you own your work, your impact, and your future. We lead with care, and safety is non‑negotiable and embedded into every role, site and decision, ensuring our teams return home safe, every day.

From field engineering to project management to quality and startup, you’ll work with cutting‑edge technology, learn from seasoned experts, and grow through real‑world, hands‑on experience. With a strong backlog across power, water, grid, and industrial markets, you’ll have the stability to grow and the opportunity to shape what comes next.

This role is ideal for a construction leader who thrives in the field and wants to drive successful substation construction work from planning through installation. You will partner closely with subcontractor supervision, field engineering, and craft leadership to keep work progressing safely, on schedule, and to quality expectations. In this position, you will help coordinate technical requirements, support installation of substation equipment and work packages, and ensure teams have the information, materials, and direction needed to execute efficiently.

You will play a key role in maintaining strong subcontractor and direct hire craft relationships, communicating project priorities clearly, and helping deliver substation projects in alignment with Black and Veatch standards, procedures, and contractual commitments.

• Lead and monitor day‑to‑day substation construction activities to support compliance with the CPM schedule, including tracking installation progress, milestones, and completed work quantities.
• Partner with subcontractors to resolve field issues related to drawings, technical information, schedule, safety, quality, quantity tracking, and cost reporting.
• Monitor construction productivity, progress, and cost performance for assigned substation work and communicate updates to project leadership.
• Take proactive action to maintain schedule, productivity, and performance targets.
• Facilitate subcontractor supervision meetings and support daily, weekly, and monthly planning for substation field execution.
• Develop and maintain short term interval plans for assigned substation scopes of work.
• Support plan/progress development, implementation, tracking and reporting.
• Implement and manage field quality and document control programs.
• Manage craft tooling inventory, tracking, and accountability.
• Coordinate with Site leadership and operations for craft resource needs, forecasting and logistics.
• Create recovery and corrective action plans when progress or productivity targets are at risk.
• Plan and maintain required materials, equipment, manpower, and other resources on site to support upcoming substation work.
• Track and report punch list completion for craft and subcontractor work scopes.
• Maintain accurate daily site records and field documentation, produce and submit daily reports.
• Review subcontractor timesheets, installed quantity reports, and progress payment requests for accuracy and alignment with completed work.
• Monitor Technical Service Representative daily logs and review associated timesheets as needed.
• Coordinate subcontractor daily and weekly work plans with other discipline leads and the Construction Manager to support integrated site execution.
• Ensure assigned subcontractors perform work in accordance with subcontract scope, schedule, and project requirements.
• Build strong working relationships with assigned subcontractors and field teams to support collaboration and execution success.
• Support the Field Subcontract Administrator with extra work authorization requests, including RFMPs and WAs.
• Assist Construction Engineering with compiling and responding to contractor information requests.
• Oversee execution of work packages and installation of substation equipment.
• Develop and distribute Job Hazard Analyses for major erection…