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Description
Job Summary:
In this role, you will provide project field engineering specialization and expertise with work planning and packaging, material management, quantity verification and validation, safety and quality control, technical inspection and testing knowledge, and subcontract coordination. Your recommendations will ensure field engineering activities operate safely, are complete, and conform to quality standards and project requirements.
Major Responsibilities:
Work Planning & Packaging
Prepares construction drawings and sketches.
Leads preparation of construction drawings and schedules and the design of temporary construction facilities and ensures preparation of "as built" drawings and other job plans.
Material Management
Initiates requisitions for field purchases.
Prepares quantity takeoffs of field purchased material and equipment.
Quantities
Verifies commodities on quantity tracking systems or other computer database systems as required.
Safety / Quality Control
Ensures zero accident philosophy and requirements are implemented and adhered to by craft and others when in the operational area, and tools and equipment are in safe condition and operated safely.
Technical
Proactively considers continuous learning or shows interest to pursue appropriate learning activities
System Turnover Coordinator
For Direct Hire
Develops firm understanding of system and area scoping and drawings required for package development.
STR / Subcontract Coordinator
Reviews and approves inspection test plans
Coordinates reviews of subcontractor submittals
Requirements
Education and Experience Requirements:
Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 8-10 years of relevant experience or 12-14 years of relevant work experience
Required Knowledge and Skills:
Owns safe, code-compliant electrical execution—expert knowledge of power distribution, grounding, raceway, cable, terminations, testing, and energization, with zero tolerance for uncontrolled energy.
Plans and sequences electrical work—coordinates underground, supports, rough-in, pull, term, test, and energize activities to protect access and the critical path.
Works alongside supervision to set production targets, enforce standards, manage manpower curves, and develop foremen and general foremen.
Controls quality and productivity—understands labor units, pull planning, material availability, and rework drivers; intervenes early when quality drifts.
Integrates with the project team—coordinates tightly with mechanical, piping, controls, commissioning, and the client to enable safe, phased turnover and energization.
