Electrical Foreman - Sidney, OH

Comfort Systems USA; Portage (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Comfort Systems USA is seeking a Foreman Electrician to lead a crew on commercial/industrial electrical projects. You will supervise Journeymen, Apprentices and Helpers, ensuring high-quality workmanship and safety on site.

The role requires developing schedules, coordinating material lists, and communicating needs to supervision to hit production and budget goals. Applicants should demonstrate strong blueprint literacy, NEC knowledge, and the ability to read project specs while mentoring a team

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of electrical construction experience in commercial or industrial settings.
• Proven leadership capable of mentoring and coaching a small team.
• Strong ability to read and interpret blueprints, specs, and schematics.
• Effective communication with other trades and trade supervisors.
• Ability to develop manpower schedules for the crew.
• Basic budgeting awareness and ability to help meet production goals.
• Proficient with tools and safety practices; able to work overtime including weekends.
• Familiarity with BlueBeam and Navisworks preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor Journeyman, Helpers and Apprentices on the job site.
• Ensure quality work and adherence to high standards.
• Develop material lists from layouts and job-site demands.
• Communicate needs to supervision to support production and budgets.
• Inspect work to ensure compliance with NEC and local codes.
• Read project specs, blueprints and schematics.
• Lay out work from drawings including underground layouts.
• Size wires, conduits and junction boxes correctly.
• Troubleshoot lighting and power circuits.

Skills

Leadership

Team mentoring

Communication

Blueprint reading

Scheduling

Customer relations

Safety awareness

Problem solving

Tools

BlueBeam

Navisworks

Job description

The Foreman Electrician works under the guidance of a senior level Foreman or Superintendent and will oversee the direct work of a crew of Helpers, Apprentices, and Journeyman electricians. Foreman electricians routinely perform installation, alteration and/or repair of electrical systems, conductors and associated materials and equipment simultaneously while leading, training, mentoring, and performing evaluations of their crew.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor Journeyman, Helpers and Apprentices on the job site
• Work alongside their crew and ensure quality of work is to the highest standards
• Assist in the development of an effective manpower schedule for their team
• Develop material lists from layouts, area prints, and job site demands and communicating lists to supervision
• Helps achieve production and budget goals by understanding what needs to be done and communicates that effectively to their team.
• Ensure all work done by crew is within local and NEC guidelines
• Work independently to measure, cut, bend, thread, assemble and install electrical conduit using measuring devices, hand tools, threaders and hand or mechanical benders
• Install and terminate electrical devices, fixtures, panel boards, brand circuit and feeder conductors
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of circuitry
• Read and understand project specifications, blueprints, and schematics
• Lay out small areas of work from electrical drawings and project documents, including underground layout
• Correctly determine wire, conduit, and junction box sizing
• Perform basic troubleshooting of lighting and general power circuits

Requirements

• 7-10 years of experience performing electrical construction in commercial and/or industrial environments
• Demonstrates leadership abilities with the capability and desire of growing in this area. Able to lead, mentor and coach teams of roughly five Helpers, Apprentices and Journeyman Electricians.
• Exhibits thorough understanding of a small, assigned scope of work.
• Recognizes work that is outside of assigned scope.
• Demonstrates basic skills in communicating with other trades and negotiating work assignments with trade supervisors.
• Shows an aptitude and willingness for learning how to read and understand the blueprints and available contract-related documents of the other trades on site.
• Demonstrates a basic understanding of customer relationships and the concept of customer satisfaction.
• Shows an intermediate understanding of developing, reading and following construction schedules for assigned scope of work.
• Able to learn and comprehend BlueBeam, Navisworks and related programs to understand project plans for their assigned scope of work when needed.
• Participates actively in leadership training when given the opportunity.
• Demonstrates above average leadership, communication and decision-making skills with a desire to grow those skills.
• Equipped with all tools required by company policy and able to use them to perform assigned tasks
• Demonstrate the Amteck Way in daily work activities, behavior and decision making
• Able to work project schedules including weekends and overtime
• Has an interest and aptitude to learn job-related material through oral instruction and observation, typically in an on-the-job setting
• Demonstrate a team-player mentality by listening and understanding directions, working cooperatively with others, and working safely without any threat to self or others
• Possess basic mechanical aptitude, basic mathematical ability, and the ability to learn to read basic construction documents used daily
• The willingness to participate in field training, whether it by OJT, classroom-based, or completely virtual