Underground Distribution - Foreman

TX DFW
1701 County Road 1109b
Rio Vista, TX 76093, USA

5 Star Electric, LLC (5 Star) is a premier full‑service provider of electrical construction, maintenance, and repair services with offices in Western Kentucky and Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. 5 Star specializes in Distribution and Transmission Power Line work, Substation, Industrial, Commercial, Street lighting, and Fiber installations.

Position Title: URD – Foreman

Our Core Values: Guided by Safety. Focused on Communities. Powered by Care.

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

The URD Foreman is responsible for the construction and maintenance of underground electrical distribution and switching for distribution voltages. The position works under the direction of the General Foreman. A URD Foreman is responsible for the safety of his crew and for providing field supervision over crews involved in the installation, maintenance, and repair of underground electric distribution and service lines, transformers, meters, metering equipment, and related equipment.

This class is also responsible for performing related duties as required. The hazardous condition of working with high‑voltage energized lines and equipment is a critical factor of this job.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Foremen will be responsible for daily job briefings and ensuring that all crew members are well versed on the coming day’s business, so they are prepared for any and all potential hazards.
• Promotes and maintains harmony among assigned crew personnel, customers, and the general public.
• Assists in constructing and wiring electrical high‑voltage substations and analyzes voltage recordings, charts, and electric trouble reports to make recommendations on replacing or upgrading transformers, services, or related equipment.
• Checks material, equipment and manpower requirements, and conducts pre‑job meetings and job safety analysis with crew.
• Checks time sheets, material stores orders, work order face sheets, construction sketches, and other reports.
• Climbs ladders, poles, and towers on a daily or continuous basis as required or determined by supervisor.
• Communicates with customers and safety staff to solve power problems and satisfy electric utility needs, along with reports major outages, physical changes in lines or switches, serious accidents, and to request assistance.
• Completes reports and forms related to assigned projects and comprehends and makes inferences from written material.
• Contacts customers requesting hold tags, switching changes, or other operating requirements. Meets scheduling and attendance requirements. Installs personal protective grounds.
• Determines the equipment, tools, materials, and manpower needed to complete assigned projects.
• Detects natural gas leaks when working on underground cable, distinguishes colors to identify circuits and color‑coded electrical connectors and establishes and maintains electric line clearances with other utilities.
• Inspects the work of Linemen, Linemen Apprentice, and Electric Utility Equipment Operators to ensure compliance with prescribed operating and safety standards.
• Installs and terminates high‑voltage connectors; transformers and switches in manholes and vaults, securing equipment, and cables; and various service lines, power poles, meters, and metering device.
• It is the foreman’s responsibility to recognize areas for potential improvement and to report any “near miss” events in order for the crew members to learn from those events with the goal of preventing future accidents and report all incidents/accidents to the safety specialist as soon as possible.
• Maintains time reporting records of the crew and approves employee leave.
• Prioritizes work assignments, plans, coordinates, and directs the work of various size crews, which may include different crew compositions.
• Provides lead supervision over workers involved in maintaining, installing, and repairing underground and overhead power distribution and service lines, transformers, meters, metering equipment, and related equipment.
• Reads and interprets construction plans and schematics (related to the…