Construction Supervisor - Transmission

JOB PURPOSE
As a Construction Supervsor you will leads and manage Rhode Island Energy Construction Management functions
throughout the lifecycle of a project. Responsible for ensuring projects are planned, designed, constructed, and
commissioned in a manner consistent with Rhode Island Energy specified policies and procedures.

Essential Functions
• Responsible for field leadership and oversight of all contracted construction work; ensuring safe completion
of the defined scope of work on budget, on schedule, and to the quality levels specified in the
• Manages or self-performs activities and tasks to successfully contract out Rhode Island Energy work including
outage planning, outage submission, permit & tag, switching, construction scope of work, managing
contractor crews, verifying material
• Participate in the review and award of construction proposals with Rhode Island Energy Sourcing;
understands the terms and conditions in contracts and manages construction contractors to terms and
Reviews and approves construction change orders for work not in scope, or changes to scope of work.
Participates in claims dispute and resolution sessions. Verifies contractor invoices, ensuring work invoiced
has been completed.
• Manages or self-performs constructability assessments during the conceptual design and engineering phase
of a Including but not limited to identifying physical site requirements, access roads, laydown areas, pad
sizes, equipment parameters, cost estimates, outage planning, construction sequencing, risk assessment,
and scheduling.
• Reviews deliverables from the Siting, Real Estate, Permitting, Procurement, and Engineering groups to
ensure concurrence with the construction plan associated with a
• Work with project team to develop and implement corrective actions when safety, schedule, scope, or costs
impacts are forecasted or
• Ensures Rhode Island Energy contractors have approved work plans and fully understand the scope and
requirements for performing This also includes the performance of safety briefings, job walk-downs, and job
site assessments.
• Supervise and conduct contractor briefings.
• Ensure completeness and quality of construction workmanship before accepting the finished product,
responsible for managing the Construction Quality and Asset Commissioning functions of a
• Provides regular project status, feedback, and critical path items to the Rhode Island Energy Construction
Management, Engineering, and Project Management
• Maintain working knowledge of industry construction best practices and applications at Rhode Island Energy.
• Ability to travel throughout the Rhode Island Energy service territory, this is a regional based
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all policies and standards

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience on a year for year basis and 2+ years in construction, operations, or maintenance.
Driver License, Valid and in State.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree, Project Management professional (PMP), or Certified Construction manager (CCM)
Certification.
• Two years of experience as a construction or project manager in the power industry.
• Supervisory experience.
• Working knowledge of critical-path-method scheduling tools and project budgets, and/or industry
investigation tools.