Senior Construction Manager

Qualus; Kentucky; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life Insurance

Short and Long-Term Disability

401(k) match

Flexible Spending Accounts

EAP

Parental Leave

Paid time off

Holidays

Job summary

Qualus seeks a Senior Construction Manager to lead construction activities for electric transmission, distribution, and substation projects within the EPC Group. The role ensures constructability aligns with Qualus and client expectations for quality, safety, and compliance with codes and regulations.

Travel between 50% and 75% is required. Responsibilities include managing contractor crews, coordinating outages, ensuring timely project performance, and maintaining site readiness with customers

Qualifications

• 15+ years of materials, construction standards, regulations (OSHA), and safety requirements for electric transmission line and substation construction.
• In-depth knowledge of materials, construction standards, regulations (OSHA), and safety requirements for electric distribution and substation construction.
• Thorough knowledge of company work, environmental, and safety practices, including a working knowledge of electric operations, and the ability to maintain or obtain switching and outage authorization.

Responsibilities

• Manages and inspects the day-to-day activities of multiple electric contractor crews, for transmission line, distribution line, and substation project work.
• Facilitates the installation of electric infrastructure and ensures safety standards, company construction standards, company specifications and governmental regulations.
• Manages work to ensure that all performance objectives for cycle time and cost are on target.
• Oversees and directs contractors performing electric cable installations and electric cut-ins.
• Performs weekly safety audits of crews and documents performance.
• Coordinates permit and work-with requirements with third party utilities and permit agencies.
• Reviews and approves documents submitted by the contractor verifying accuracy and completeness of documentation.
• Maintains customer coordination during construction phase and conducts job walk-down with customer and contractor at job completion.

Skills

OSHA knowledge

Electric transmission experience

Substation construction

PC skills

AS8

Atlas

Mobile Maps

MS Office

Tools

AS8

Atlas

Mobile Maps

MS Office Suite

Job description

Position Overview

Power your future with Qualus in our Program Management department as a Senior Construction Manager. The Senior Construction Manager is responsible for ensuring that constructability meets Qualus and our clients' expectations of the quality of each assigned project, to ensure compliance within required construction codes, local jurisdictional requirements. budgetary, scheduling, and safety goals. Employees in this role coordinate and manage construction work performed by contractors at the project site and the construction activities of distribution line, transmission line, and substation projects within the EPC Group at Qualus.

Travel: 50-75%

Responsibilities

• Manages and inspects the day-to-day activities of multiple electric contractor crews, for transmission line, distribution line, and substation project work.
• Facilitates the installation of electric infrastructure and ensures that all safety standards, company construction standards, company specifications and governmental regulations are met.
• Manages work to ensure that all performance objectives for cycle time and cost are on target.
• Oversees and directs contractors performing electric cable installations and electric cut-ins.
• Makes the proper notification to all federal, state and local agencies before, during and after construction as required.
• Prior to commencement of construction, coordinates with customer(s) at the jobsite to determine specific customer requirements, construction sequencing and provides site readiness verification.
• Maintains frequent and regular contact with contractor supervision regarding job performance and documents results appropriately.
• Knowledgeable about distribution contracts.
• Ensures that the terms and conditions of the contract and technical specifications are met.
• Verifies key unit quantities.
• Makes the necessary field decisions regarding job changes and communicates them as necessary to the Supervisor and Program or Project Manager; documents all job changes to ensure compliance and ensures the updates get documented in the appropriate information technology systems.
• Schedules and coordinates all required electric system outages. Performs weekly safety audits of crews and documents performance in the Asset Suite Safety Audit/Observation Tool.
• Coordinates permit and work-with requirements with third party utilities and permit agencies.
• Reviews and approves all documents submitted by the contractor verifying the accuracy and completeness of the documentation.
• Regularly communicates job status to the appropriate parties to facilitate scheduling commitments.
• Maintains customer coordination during construction phase and conducts job walk-down with customer and contractor at job completion.
• Performs storm duty assignments as needed.
• Reports to service center, jobsite, or remote location

Minimum Qualifications

• Thorough knowledge of company work, environmental, and safety practices, including a working knowledge of electric operations, and the ability to maintain or obtain switching and outage authorization.
• 15+ years of materials, construction standards, regulations (OSHA), and safety requirements for electric transmission line and substation construction.
• In-depth knowledge of materials, construction standards, regulations (OSHA), and safety requirements for electric distribution and substation construction.
• Thorough knowledge of PC and job/work management applications including AS8, Atlas, Mobile Maps & MS Office Suite.

Benefits & Compensation

Qualus benefits offered include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short and Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays, for those who qualify.

The final salary awarded for this role may vary from the above range based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs. The salary range provided in this job posting may be subject to change for business purposes.

Company Overview

Qualus is a leading pure-play power solutions firm and innovator at the forefront of power infrastructure transformation, with differentiated capabilities across grid modernization, resiliency, security, and sustainability. The firm partners with utilities, commercial, industrial, data center, and government clients, and renewable and energy storage developers, offering comprehensive solutions through boutique and integrated advisory, planning, engineering, digital solutions, program management, energy efficiency and specialized field services. Qualus also provides software and technology enabled services and develops breakthrough solutions for critical power industry challenges such as distributed and variable resource integration, emergency manage