Lead Electrical Superintendent

About the role

Bechtel is building a semiconductor manufacturing plant in New Albany, Ohio. We are partnering with the North America Building Trades Unions and suppliers to create several thousand new jobs and work with local education organizations to implement new training programs that will support the future talent pipeline. Bechtel Manufacturing & Technology, Inc. offers engineering, procurement, and construction services for customers in the semiconductor manufacturing, electric vehicle, and data center markets. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, the M&T global business unit also includes colleagues working in Arizona, Ohio, Texas, India, and additional project locations around the world.

Responsibilities

• Provides overall field leadership for direct-hire electrical construction activities within the assigned area and is accountable for safety, quality, productivity, schedule, and execution performance.
• Develops, maintains, and drives the 3-week look-ahead schedule, ensuring work is properly sequenced, measurable, constraint-free, and aligned with project milestones.
• Develops and manages a 90-day execution plan identifying upcoming work fronts, required engineering, materials, equipment, access, predecessor activities, staffing needs, and potential schedule risks.
• Develops and maintains craft manpower curves based on quantities, productivity assumptions, available work fronts, and schedule requirements.
• Adjusts staffing plans as conditions and priorities change.
• Directly manages craft execution and provides leadership and direction to electrical Superintendents, General Foremen, Foremen, and craft personnel.
• Supports other area Superintendents by helping resolve execution issues, balancing craft resources, coordinating shared work fronts, and ensuring consistent execution practices across the electrical organization.
• Reviews planned versus actual quantities, installed production, earned hours, productivity, and staffing to identify performance gaps and implement recovery actions when required.
• Ensures sufficient ready-to-work backlog is maintained for the craft and proactively identifies constraints before they impact field execution.
• Coordinates electrical installation activities including cabling, terminations, panels/RIO cabinets, junction boxes, calibration, testing, and associated system completion activities.
• Ensures installation sequencing supports downstream loop checks, functional testing, commissioning, energization/startup, and system turnover requirements.
• Works closely with Planning to ensure construction schedules accurately represent field conditions, realistic production rates, sequence, manpower loading, and remaining quantities.
• Coordinates with Engineering to resolve design issues, RFIs, constructability concerns, late design changes, and field conditions that could impact installation.
• Coordinates with Procurement and Material Management to ensure required instruments, bulk materials, specialty materials, and vendor equipment are available ahead of planned installation dates.
• Reviews work packages and installation plans to verify required drawings, specifications, materials, permits, access, tools, equipment, and predecessor work are complete before releasing work to the field.
• Coordinates closely with Electrical, Piping, Mechanical, Structural, Civil, and other disciplines to manage interfaces, congestion, access, shared resources, and work sequencing.
• Maintains awareness of critical-path and near-critical-path activities and takes proactive action to prevent electrical scope from impacting project milestones.
• Drives completion of punch items, rework, testing deficiencies, and turnover documentation to support timely system completion.
• Ensures work is executed in accordance with applicable project specifications, drawings, procedures, quality requirements, and construction standards.
• Establishes clear daily and weekly expectations for field leadership and holds the organization accountable for safety, attendance, productivity, quality, housekeeping, and schedule performance.
• Promotes strong field leadership through routine presence in the work areas, verification of actual field conditions, coaching of subordinate Superintendents and Foremen, and timely resolution of craft-level issues.
• Participates in construction coordination, schedule, system completion, and management meetings and clearly communicates instrumentation status, risks, manpower needs, constraints, and recovery plans.

Requirements

• Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 10-13 years of relevant experience or 14-17 years of relevant work experience in lieu of a degree.

Qualifications

• Extensive working knowledge of construction planning, monitoring and control.
• Familiar with construction tools and equipment as well as their uses.
• Extensive technical knowledge and experience in electrical operations to ensure adequate coordination with all stakeholders for smooth and safe execution.
• Proficient in Microsoft suite in word processing, spreadsheet and database applications.
• Experience managing union craft.
• Heavy industrial US direct hire construction experience.
• Knowledge and understanding of the application and requirements of the Project Environmental, Safety & Health (ES&H) Handbook and the Bechtel Core Processes as they relate to area of responsibility.
• Knowledge of safety and relevant OSHA requirements and regulations.
• Knowledge of Bechtel's "Zero Accidents" safety program.
• Excellent customer relations and communication skills.