Lead Electrical Foreman: Mentoring & Field Leadership

Comfort Systems USA, Inc.; Auburn (AL); On-site; USD 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Comfort Systems USA, Inc. seeks a Foreman Electrician to oversee a crew on electrical installation, alteration, and repair projects in commercial and industrial settings. You will lead Journeymen, Apprentices, and Helpers, develop schedules, and ensure work conforms to NEC and project specifications.

The role requires strong leadership, blueprint literacy, and the ability to communicate across trades while mentoring staff and maintaining high-quality workmanship on site.

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of electrical construction experience 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.

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.
• Perform field layout using Trimble equipment and software.
• Correctly determine wire, conduit, and junction box sizing.
• Perform basic troubleshooting of lighting and general power circuits.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Blueprint reading

Schedule development

Communication with trades

Troubleshooting

Conduit installation

Field layout

Tools

Trimble

BlueBeam

Navisworks

Job description

Comfort Systems USA, Inc. seeks a Foreman Electrician to oversee a crew on electrical installation, alteration, and repair projects in commercial and industrial settings. You will lead Journeymen, Apprentices, and Helpers, develop schedules, and ensure work conforms to NEC and project specifications.

The role requires strong leadership, blueprint literacy, and the ability to communicate across trades while mentoring staff and maintaining high-quality workmanship on site.