Senior Field Construction Supervisor – Substations

EDG Inc; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Part time

Job summary

EDG Inc in Birmingham, AL seeks a Sr. Field Construction Supervisor (Oversight Role) to oversee substation and transmission construction through commissioning.

The role reports to Utility Construction Manager and involves field leadership across safety, scheduling, and quality. You will coordinate with environmental teams, manage outages, reviews, and ensure compliance with safety training and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Requires ten (10) to fifteen (15) years experience in the Electric Utility Transmission or Distribution.
• Must be knowledgeable and be able to interpret and cite OSHA regulations and provide guidance to construction crews and upper management on the proper application of these regulations in the workplace.

Responsibilities

• Participate as a member of project teams to assist others in the development of project scope, project cost estimate, project schedule
• Participate on site field / scope visits
• Assist others in developing schedule including critical paths
• Assist others in developing detailed construction plans and identify outage requirements to implement new facilities
• Assist in developing construction contract bid packages; review responses and participates in vendor selection. Attend pre‑bid meeting with contractors
• Participate in design constructability reviews
• Participate in developing a detailed construction plan, which includes a list of outages, exact work dates, and construction resource requirements
• Ensure that contractors are in compliance with Utility Company mandated safety training
• Coordinate with survey and soil boring crews as needed
• Ensure all necessary permits from ROW and or Environmental groups are in place prior to the start of construction
• Participate in Contractors Pre‑Construction/Safety Kickoff meeting to outline what is expected of contractor
• Ensure contractor inventories all material delivered to site. Work with contract design engineers when deficiencies are noted
• Safety Tailboard conference attendance / review, JSA development / review, observations / hazard analysis, monitor contract crew members to have Substation Awareness training, monitors skills abilities of contractors for task, mental and physical state, public exposure, accident / incident reporting
• Monitor and report theft or illegal activity
• Ensure contractor activities do not compromise system reliability
• Ensure expected quality is achieved by contractor in field
• Ensure project work is maintainable by the Utility Grid Operations at end of project
• Ensure project work does not hamper the Grid Operations maintainability of existing equipment at site
• Protect the Utility position in relation to environmental issues
• Coordinate with Environmental Contractors on the sampling and removal of oil from devices taken out of service
• Coordinate with the Utility Environmental Group and specified Contractors on any environmental concern and/or clean‑up activities due to spills of any type
• Coordinate with the Utility Environmental Group and specified Contractors on all Storm water Management activities
• Ensure that SWMPP (substation work management project plan) is in installed and maintained as designed
• Ensure that SPCC (Spill Prevention Controls & Countermeasures) are in effect and maintained properly.
• Identifies and addresses all project safety hazards and environmental concerns. Responsible for monitoring and routine reporting on project construction schedule and cost
• Perform quality assurance checks during construction
• Ensure that SWMS (substation work management system)/Asset Data forms, and corresponding photos are completed for all equipment being installed and/or removed
• Monitor schedule and progress versus requested in service date
• Ensure contractor returns excess material to stores and that it is credited to the job. Follow the Material Return Process
• Work with investment recovery in the salvage of conductor. Follow the Investment Recovery Process
• Be with the construction crew first thing in the morning to kick off the work day
• Ensure the Safety of self, public and all team members
• Proactively identify and address safety issues and provide input to mitigate the hazards
• Assist in crew JSA and Tailboards
• Discuss work activity for the day
• Discuss any material issues
• Be Environmental Stewards
• Ensure permit requirements are adhered to while performing work
• Work with engineers to: Provide input to scopes, estimates, schedules, constructability meetings; Coordinatematerial deliveries and landowner access; Perform QA/QC activities on all phases of the project; Log construction progress and keep field notes
• Ensure as‑built documentation is done and work complies to Utility Company Standards

Skills

Experience in Electric Utilities

OSHA regulations knowledge

Job description

EDG Inc in Birmingham, AL seeks a Sr. Field Construction Supervisor (Oversight Role) to oversee substation and transmission construction through commissioning.

The role reports to Utility Construction Manager and involves field leadership across safety, scheduling, and quality. You will coordinate with environmental teams, manage outages, reviews, and ensure compliance with safety training and regulatory requirements.