Drilling Team Leader

What You'll Do

• Manage drilling services for continued growth with a strong emphasis on client development and productivity
• Provide overall operational and technical support for exploration, seismic testing, and boring layout processes
• Manage all administrative and field activities for the drilling department
• Review employee time and expense sheets ensuring that all hours worked and all field activities and expenses are correctly recorded and coded for billing
• Responsible for department vehicle and drill rig maintenance and any documentation
• Ensure all company, client, and project specific procedures, standards, etc., have been communicated to the drilling department personnel and are implemented
• Promotes safe working practices on all projects ensuring proper PPE is used
• Ensure all productivity goals and deadlines are met for the department
• Responsible for recruiting personnel and maintaining appropriate staff levels with approval by your supervisor
• Manage and maintain sufficient inventory of all department supplies and equipment using inventory tracking software including numbers on hand, when and where purchased, and cost
• Provide training to staff personnel in accordance with company policy and procedures.
• Prepares cost estimates for department purchases
• Prepare and coordinate field testing schedule with subcontractors
• Review and negotiate subcontractor proposals, invoices, and terms and conditions
• Train staff on field testing and sampling techniques, data reduction, and data interpretation
• Additional responsibilities may include construction materials testing and geotechnical project management, report reviews, proposal preparation, managing budget proposals and invoices, and participation in marketing our services by maintaining and developing client interactions

What We're Looking For

Who We Are

ECS Group of Companies (ECS) was founded in 1988 with the goal to raise the standards of professional engineering consulting. Today, we are a leader in geotechnical, construction materials, environmental and facilities consulting services. We are employee-owned with more than 2,800 employees in 100 offices and testing facilities coast to coast. ECS is currently ranked #64 in Engineering News-Record's Top 500 Design Firms (April 2024), #144 in Engineering News-Record's Top 200 Environmental Firms (October 2024) and #28 in Zweig Group's Hot Firm List (June 2024). For additional information about ECS click here.

We love our employees and we show this through providing some great benefits, including paid time off, health and other insurance plans, retirement and college savings plans, and more. Click here to learn more about the great benefits at ECS.

ECS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This means that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.