Aplin has partnered with an innovative, award-winning construction company with growing operations in the USA and Canada. They are seeking an Electrical Superintendent to support this growth.
This full-time leadership position will be based in El Paso, Texas to support their portfolio of Civil Infrastructureprojects.
Benefits and Perks
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive benefits package, which may include an employee share purchase program, discretionary annual performance bonus, retirement plan with employer matching, wellness initiatives, and career development opportunities
- Relocation assistance to El Paso, Texas, is available. Candidates must be based in the U.S. and legally authorized to work in the United States.
Responsibilities
- Works with project manager to ensure implementation of safety program, including integrating safety program into all site plans and procedures and adhering to all safety and record-keeping requirements.
- Supervises, directs, coaches, trains, and mentors the project team, including direct and indirect reports.
- Effectively communicates with own forces and trades and ensures that performance, productivity, quality, and safety requirements are met.
- Consistently collaborates with construction/project manager and project team. Proactively manages potential problems, work interferences, and schedules conflicts/setbacks.
- Proactively identifies, manages, and resolves potential problems, work conflicts, and/or schedule challenges. Contributes to development and implementation of a recovery plan and works with the project team to anticipate and resolve issues.
- Liaises between field engineers, estimators, and subcontractors to ensure construction complies with drawings and specifications.
- Liaises with client, other site contractors, union and labor relations, and site and office representatives.
- Visualizes and conveys vision of an entire project, identifies, and drives the project schedule’s critical path.
- Oversees and manages development and implementation of Project Execution Plan (PEP) and resource-loaded three-week lookahead schedules.
- Oversees and manages the project plan and schedule and ensures compliance with budget and quality.
- Reviews and understands the contract and subcontracts and develops a plan that identifies and mitigates risks and maximizes opportunities to ensure that all financial targets, including budgets, forecasts, and profitability levels are met.
- Understands project labor agreements and builds relationships with union and labor representatives.
Qualifications
- Journeyman certificate or undergraduate/Engineering degree in a related discipline.
- 15 years of progressive field supervision experience preferred.
- Successfully supervised a construction workforce.
- In-depth knowledge of and experience in construction industry and company operations, including building materials, construction specifications, and methods and procedures.
- Understanding of project scope and ability to apply intermediate-complex engineering principles and embed solutions in construction plans and schedules.
- Proficient understanding of and ability to apply logic to the schedule to build a plan using scheduling software.
- Ability to coordinate multiple scopes of a construction project, including scheduling, monitoring, and coordinating own forces work (OFW) and trade contractors with three-week lookahead schedules.
- Thorough understanding of productivity rates or own forces work (OFW), Labor Cost Reports (LCRs), and ability to interpret cost reports.
- Thorough understanding of contract language and with the ability to identify and mitigate risks and identify and leverage opportunities.
- Understanding of collective agreement and jurisdiction assignment for multi-trade sites (IND).
- In-depth knowledge of and application of safety and environmental principles/ procedures/legislation.
- Ability to lead and run effective site meetings with the client, consultants, trades, own forces work, and internal employees; ability to present at client meetings or for project pursuit work.
- Demonstrated conflict-resolution skills, problem-solving abilities, and professional judgement.
- Ability to develop and maintain effective stakeholder relationships.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and internal operational systems.
David Aplin & Associates Inc., operating as Aplin, and its associated brands, CompuStaff and Impact Recruitment, is an award-winning employment agency connecting diverse, top-tier talent with exceptional organizations across North America. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and charge no fees to apply or engage with our recruiters. Our clients partner with us to help expand and diversify their teams. Please note that all applicants must be legally entitled to work in Canada, including holding any necessary work permits.