Lead Electrician

Summary:   As a lead electrician overseeing one or more electricians and/or apprentices, this is a hands-on role, requiring the lead to actively participate in fieldwork alongside the team while providing oversight, guidance, and management daily.

Duties and responsibilities: The list below is a comprehensive list of responsibilities based on the scope described, organized into categories for clarity.

Project Planning, Execution, Responsibilities:

- Utilize Communication is the KEY to Success training. (see attached)

- Review project schedules and interpret blueprints, plans, and specifications to plan electrical installations down to daily, by the hour project layouts.

- Responsible for layout and interpretation of electrical systems, ensuring accurate implementation.

- Order materials and supplies needed for projects, managing inventory to avoid delays.

- Install conduit, including layout, measuring, cutting, threading, and bending.

- Providing accurate wire measurements, setting up wire pulls with equipment, to efficiently use your crew and equipment.

- Terminate switchboards, transformers, panels, and disconnects, ensuring proper connections and compliance with electrical codes.

- Utilize meters for testing voltage, amperage, resistance.

- Being creative in acquiring new methods, skills, or ways to perform tasks.  Learning your crews’ strengths and weaknesses to better use them and to train them.

- Coordination with other trades, owners, equipment providers for installation timelines, coordination and direction of the installation.  Document each meeting in WiSE, Procore or OneNote.

Operational and Administrative Duties:

- If issued, operate company-owned vehicles for transportation of personnel, tools, and materials to and from job sites in a safe manner abiding by all traffic laws and CEC guidelines including daily inventory of all tools issued to vehicle.

- Responsible for all tools or equipment issued to a work order, including keeping them in good working order and returning them to CEC Warehouse in a timely manner when they are not in use.

Use of WiSE software to schedule pick up of equipment when ready to return.

- Use of WiSE Software if repair is needed, create repair request with information and pictures as necessary for notification to warehouse.

- Onsite management, your daily work order notification will state if you are the “Lead” or “Foreman” for the day, when acting as lead electrician or daily foreman role, you are responsible for coordination with other trades, timelines, and quality control.

When another employee is designated as the “Lead” or “Foreman”, your responsibility is to daily coordinate with them for all your responsibilities listed, your role does not change to an electrician with no responsibility.

Team Management and Supervision:

- Demonstrate a strong commitment to a collaborative team environment, emphasizing team success over individuals.

- Manage and supervise a team of electricians and apprentices, including assigning tasks, providing guidance, and monitoring performance.

- Create tasks in WiSE, Procore and/or OneNote with timelines for installation activities to ensure efficient workflow for the crew.

WiSE is our preferred method for creating Tasks for your crew.

- OneNote is preferred planning method for large notes/pictures.

- Procore when required by project.

- Create examples and demonstrations for the crew to follow, promoting best practices and skill development.

- Collaborate with HR on employee-related matters, including production evaluation, morale improvement, addressing tardiness, disciplinary actions, safety and other personnel issues.

- Must have an eagerness to self-train.  Learn software, new procedures, safety training, planning, creating project examples to reuse, pictures/documentation for future planning.

Software Usage

- Utilize WiSE software for creating of Tasks, Purchase Orders and CEC equipment reservations, including receiving orders onsite and request for returning equipment.

- Utilize Procore software for drawing reviews, coordination, including submitting RFIs (Requests for Information), reviewing submittals, loading pictures and marking up drawings with completion dates or notes.

- Use iPad and PDF software for on-site documentation, plan reviews, and annotations.

- Use iPad for taking pictures and marking up with notes or examples, saving to WiSE, Procore, or Onenote.

- Use of Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and OneNote, through experience become more proficient in the use of each.

Safety and Compliance:

- Demonstrate commitment to safety, including wearing PPE and ensuring all employees are wearing their PPE, adherence to safety practices, reporting of workplace hazards and/or incidents to HR and PM, supporting safety program and completing required safety trainings timely.

- Ensure safety standards are met at all times, adhering to the CEC safety manual, OSHA regulations, and customer-specific safety requirements.

- When setting up crews and tasks, recognize the need for JHA’s or additional safe work practices.  Discuss with your foreman, project manager, or CEC Safety Manager for job specific safety items.

- Conduct regular safety inspections of your crew and enforce safe work practices to prevent accidents and maintain a secure job site.

Required skills and abilities:

- Displays professional appearance and conduct.

- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with coworkers, suppliers and customers.

- Ability to use equipment i.e. forklift, aerial lift, boom lift, mini ex, skid steer

- Maintains high attention to detail.

- Ability to change focus and assignments with short notice.

- Ability to work in tight spaces and locations off the ground.

- Analytical and problem-solving skills.

- Valid driver’s license.

Education and experience:

- 7 years of industrial electrician experience

- High School Diploma or equivalent.

- Extensive knowledge of electrical systems.

- Ability to read diagrams, blueprints and other specifications.

- Procore experience, desired but not required.

- Proficiency in handling, operating, and maintaining construction equipment and tools.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop; kneel and crouch. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50+ pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust and focus. The employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles, moving mechanical parts and vibration.  The employee is occasionally exposed to a variety of extreme conditions at construction sites.  The noise level in the work environment can be loud.

Equal employment opportunity

It is the policy of Caldwell Electrical Contractors, Inc. to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on age, race, color, sex, pregnancy, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, ancestry, veteran, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Caldwell Electrical Contractors, Inc. prohibits any such discrimination or harassment.