Electrician General Foreman

Bechtel Corporation; Brownsville (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Bechtel Corporation is seeking a supervisory crafts lead for industrial construction in the United States. You will oversee craft crews, enforce safety rules, read blueprints, and align work priorities with project schedules.

Responsibilities include coordinating among disciplines, guiding foremen, and ensuring accurate reporting of time, quantities, and work status. Prior experience in safety-focused environments is essential for success.

Qualifications

• Eight years of industrial construction experience, including four years in supervisory roles.
• Ability to read and interpret blueprints and implement Bechtel job procedures.
• Strong coordination across multiple crafts and disciplines.
• Knowledge of safety rules and fair enforcement.

Responsibilities

• Supervise craft crews and ensure work quality.
• Provide timely guidance to foremen to avoid work stoppages.
• Ensure accurate time sheets, backcharges, quantities, and status reports.
• Plan pre-construction and participate in weekly scheduling.
• Coordinate with other disciplines to prevent schedule conflicts.

Skills

Safety leadership

Blueprint reading

Supervisory experience

Scheduling coordination

Communication

Job description

31720BR

Job Description:

1. Safe work observation with focus on changing employee behavior to achieve Bechtel Zero Accident objective.

2. Provide employee feedback and/or consequences for safe/unsafe behavior.

3. Read an interpret blueprints, understand job specification and implement Bechtel job procedure and work rules.

4. Understand the work scope and integrate priorities of the project.

5. Instruct journeymen in specific craft tasks including safety procedures and techniques.

6. Be knowledgeable of other craft disciplines in order to effect work coordination between crafts.

7. Know, administer, and enforce work and safety rules in a fair and consistent manner of the crafts under your direction.

8. Provide timely and concise guidance to foremen to preclude crew work stoppage.

9. Provide precise directions to foremen and ensure foremen are effectively supervising work crews.

10. Understand work priorities and schedules and assign work plans.

11. Identify problems and develop action plans to resolve with minimal work disruption.

12. Initiate the coordination required with other disciplines to prevent scheduling conflicts.

13. Responsible for the quality of work performed by the crafts under your supervision.

14. Ensure accurate reports are submitted with regard to time sheets, backcharges, quantity, and work status.

15. Ensure foremen and crews understand assignments and directions prior to commencement of work.

16. Participate in the free exchange of ideas between yourself and others.

17. Administer praise and discipline consistently and fairly and initiate corrective action when required.

18. Conduct work preplanning by providing meaningful input at weekly scheduling meetings.

19. Monitor work progress and report impending schedule problems to supervision.

20. Typically has 8 years industrial construction experience with 4 years in supervisory roles.

Bechtel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, disability, citizenship status (except as authorized by law), protected veteran status, genetic information, and any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Applicants with a disability, who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, may e-mail their request to [e-mail] or call [phone] for assistance. Determinations on request for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.