Electrical Construction Manager

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Duties

• The Electrical Construction Manager is responsible for leading and overseeing construction activities for transmission, distribution, and substation projects within the service territory.
• This role champions a safety-first environment, ensuring all work is performed in strict accordance with safety principles, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
• The CM ensures safe, compliant, and reliable execution of field work while upholding utility construction standards and system operating constraints.
• This role provides on-site leadership, coordinates crews and contractors, supports energization planning, and ensures alignment with engineering, operations, and system protection groups.
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Manage all phases of field construction for utility substation, transmission, and high-voltage distribution projects (typically 12kV-500kV).
• Supervise contracted workforce; ensure work adheres to standards, drawings, and approved work packages.
• Oversee all field activities with an uncompromising commitment to "Safety First" culture.
• Coordinate switching clearances and tagging, outages, and energization activities with system operations.
• Develop and manage construction sequencing to minimize customer impact, maintain system reliability, and meet capital project milestones.
• Lead by example in promoting safety-first culture in every action, decision, and field interaction.
• Enforce safety policies, Life-Saving Rules, and Human
• Performance principles aligned with utility safety programs and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure strict compliance with OSHA 1910.269, NESC, NEC, NFPA 70/70E, and state/local regulations.
• Conduct and document daily tailboards, job briefings, safety audits, and field verifications.
• Immediately address unsafe conditions or behaviors; ensure stop-work authority is understood and exercised appropriately.
• Confirm contractor compliance with safety qualification requirements, training, and adherence to approved work methods.
• Actively identify safety risks, drive mitigation strategies, and reinforce expectations regarding incident prevention and reporting.
• Interpret engineering packages, one-line diagrams, schematics, transmission line profiles, structure drawings, and P&C wiring prints.
• Oversee installation of substation equipment (breakers, transformers, relays, switches, buswork, grounding, steel structures) and overhead/underground line components.
• Conduct detailed quality checks and inspections; verify compliance with construction standards, material specifications, and safe work practices.
• Review and validate testing results for transformers, breakers, relays, control circuits, and grounding systems to ensure safe and acceptable performance.
• Serve as the primary field liaison between engineering, operations, planning, protection & control, and project management.
• Manage outage coordination, clearance requests, and switching procedures with system operations.
• Lead construction coordination meetings with internal teams and external contractors with emphasis on safety, schedule, and risk.
• Communicate progress, issues, risks, safety concerns, and commissioning readiness to project stakeholders.
• Track labor, equipment, and material usage to monitor budget adherence.
• Manage schedules and align resources to meet key operational dates and outage windows while maintaining a safety-first mindset.
• Support material procurement, staging, and logistics for field installation.
• Identify scope variances and field changes; support resolution through engineering coordination or change request processes.
• Travel within the service territory; 85-90% of time spent on active job sites.
• Ability to work extended hours or off-shifts during outages, cutovers, or emergency response events.
• Demonstrated commitment to core values of safety, reliability, and regulatory compliance.
  
  

Skills Required

• 8-15 years of experience in utility transmission, distribution, or substation construction or field operations.
• Strong understanding of utility construction standards, work methods, and safety rules.
• In-depth knowledge of:
• Substation grounding, structures, and HV equipment installation
• Transmission and distribution line construction (OH/UG)
• Protection & control systems, relay panels, and control house wiring
• Switching, tagging, and clearance procedures
• Ability to manage contractors and multi-discipline crews in a live utility environment with an unwavering focus on safety.
• Ability to read and interpret complex utility drawings and technical packages.
• Strong communication skills with engineering, operations, field personnel, and contractors.
  
  

Preferred

• Utility operations or capital project experience (T&D, Substation, Major Projects).
• Experience with large investor-owned utilities or public power entities.
  
  

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Construction Management, or related field.
• Equivalent field experience accepted in lieu of degree.
• Certifications such as OSHA 30, PMP, or utility-specific qualifications (e.g., switching or clearance certification).
  
  

Additional Info

At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet . We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories . Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra . We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.

We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years !

FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused .

We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest . Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.

Benefits

Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match
  
  

Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.

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