ELECTRICIAN FOREMAN GENERAL
Encore Electric, Inc.
**Description**
COMPENSATION FOR THIS ROLE:
Denver/Colorado Springs/Fort Collins: $45 to 50 per hour
General Responsibilities
+ Works with a commitment to safety
+ Upholds the core values of Encore Electric
+ Acts as a professional and uses basic work ethics
+ Comes to work on time every day with appropriate attire and tools
+ Keeps work area clean Installs quality work in a neat and workmanship like manner
+ Treats tools with respect
+ Works and climbs on ladders, lifts, and elevated platforms
+ Identifies electrical parts and components
+ Perform strenuous physical work i.e., digging, kneeling, shoveling, lifting, pulling, pushing, climbing
+ Keeps up with changing technology
+ Keeps up with the national electrical code
+ Wears tools at all required times
+ Work in all weather conditions
Specific Responsibilities
Leadership
Supervise Foreman, Journeymen and Apprentices actively presenting leadership skills at the highest level
Supervise crews installing raceways, pulling wire, and mounting equipment, training apprentices and journeyman to do the same
Act as the go to person in the field
Establish, maintain, promote and participate in Encore’s mentoring program
Train, develop, mentor and coach up and coming various levels of future supervision
Motivate crew and project, keeping morale up on projects
Communicate goals for the jobsite to employees working at all levels of Encore Electric, Inc. using the tell-back procedure
Promote continuing education
Lay out and organizes assigned tasks to apprentices and journeymen
Lead by example
Process Improvement
Engage and help to develop new Encore standards and processes and hold others accountable to them Participate in Foremen meetings
Help to develop phase codes for the project Risk Management
Take accountability and responsibility for safety, quality control and productivity in his area ensuring employees do it safe, do it right, then work on speed and on other projects
Catch and correct errors
Involved with cost to complete process on project
Ensure commodity buy outs are done
Ensure employees follow policies and procedures, by:
• Enforcing company cell phone usage
• Taking accountability for counseling and correcting employees acting as a witness and raising the flag when something isn’t right
• Ensuring employees work safely wearing all proper Personal Protective Equipment
Develop project schedule and maintains it at least once a month, including:
• Act proactively in schedule slippage
• Maintain accurate manloading
• Ensure the crew has adequate tools, materials, craftsmen and labor force Maintain a secondary and in some cases third plan
Manage all aspects of the project
• Hold the job together including managing the general contractor, crew, and customer
• Take daily accountability of project/crews and stages of project progress
• Find and avoid potential crises/fixing problems when necessary
Serve as a frontline field representative
Educate others as to basic building codes and life safety
Track material and purchase orders
Communicate and coordinate with other trades for the project
Orientate employees to safety, logistics and scope on the jobsite
Review rigging plans for equipment
Perform take offs and pricing
Manage change orders
May perform hot work if qualified and trained with all necessary precautions in place
Take accountability for their continuing education, including:
• Level of foremanship classes
• Keeping up with changing technology
• Keeping up with the national electrical code
• OSHA 30
Customer Service
Act proactively with customer and design team and value engineering and constructability
Read and understand Request for Information, Job Labor Production Report
Preplan the project to stay at least two weeks ahead of crew ensuring the work and material are available for the crew, including:
• Ordering material and tools for the jobsite, ensuring preplanning has been done
• Acting conscientiously about costs
• Ordering prefab for jobsite
• Keeping a daily to do list
• Understanding abilities of crew
• Scheduling and accurately man loads crew communicating with other foreman
Efficiently and proactively identify long range milestones and short range goals
Prioritize according to the needs of the project and the customer
Update and maintain accurate as-built drawings and panel schedules for their assigned task
Create punch list for crew and follows up to ensure it is completed
Effectively communicate and define employees role with them on the project, ensuring employee understands how they fit into the overall job and how the foreman wants their work done, by:
• Communicating proactively with Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ)
• Proactively pushes the job
• Communicating the big picture to customer and employees
• Effectively communicates with superiors
Abide by specifications, value engineering and contract documents for installations
General
Familiar with all phases of the construction project
Participate and take notes in meetings
Constantly carry writing instrument and notepad
Walk jobs and:
• Provide feedback to Foreman, Project Manager, Board of Directors or Director of Project Resources as needed
• Provide job walk report
• Evaluate project
• Assigned to other projects determined to have high risks
Perform daily huddles (i.e. up and coming tasks)
Write and track intelligent Request for Information sheets
Accountable for daily logs for his area, providing input and communicating with immediate supervisor
Read and understand contract documents for project
Develop meeting agenda/run meeting
Operate computer including email, Microsoft Office and scheduling software
Use electrical formulas to figure out pipe fill, device and panel size, and disconnect
Read and understand basic blueprints
Establish material handling required for the job Perform duties as assigned by supervisor
Take accountability for a neat and clean work area
Other duties as may be assigned
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
Knowledge of:
The construction process from scheduling to manpower to the labor, materials and equipment required for installation
Constructability and the construction process
Electrical construction to manage costs
Electrical estimates to review costs
Algebra and geometry
Statistics
Financial math
Skill in:
Conceptual estimating (conceiving a project in your mind and all the components of that project)
Acting as a self starter
Working with little supervision
Spatial orientation
Visualizing the constructability of an estimate
Identifying scope gaps in construction documents
Technical writing (Requests for Proposals)
Customer management
Listening
Speaking intelligently
Estimating resources needed to complete required tasks
Adapting to new and changing requirements, environments, and/or information
Managing people and processes
Managing complex projects, breaking them down to their component levels
Using communication software
Effective written and oral communication sufficient to be able to elicit and communicate information and achieve understanding
Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with customers, vendors, consultants, management, and employees
Operating a computer
Operate Microsoft office products
Organizing work to accomplish tasks
Reading and writing
Prioritizing and reprioritizing to meet job needs
Identifying and managing risk
Problem solving
Tracking numbers and bits of data relevant to the work assignment
Ability to:
Retain and access critical information from memory
Conceptually estimate and provide input on demand at design meetings
Conceptualize and visualize the project for constructability means and methods
Think on your feet
Understand when to speak and when not to speak
Be personally detached from ideas (no ego) See things from multiple perspectives
REQUIREMENTS:
+ High School Diploma or equivalent is required with a degree in related field is preferred, including four years of apprenticeship training or three years of apprenticeship training with two year degree from technical college.
+ This position also requires five years total experience with one year as a Foreman 1. A Journeyman Wireman’s license from the State of Colorado, or appropriate state, along with Denver Fire Alarm Journeyman License within 90 days of accepting the position (Applicable only if on the front range) is required.
+ Demonstrated leadership skills are also required with the completion of Leadership Level I Leadership (Supervision) being preferred.
**Benefits of this role:**
+ Encore Electric provides excellent benefits for our employees, including: **medical, dental, and vision plans, disability, and life insurance, employee-matched 401(k), paid time off (PTO), an employee assistance program that includes counseling, legal, and financial advice.**
+ Encore also provides a generous employee referral program, and access to technical, safety, personal finance, and leadership training through Encore University, Encore’s in house training program.
+ **This position is eligible for the short-term incentive program.**
**Applications will close for this position on: December 31, 2025**
_To request an accommodation during the application process, please contact_ HR@EncoreElectric.com _._
**Encore Electric, Inc. is an EOE, including disability/vets.**
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