Mechanical Superintendent, Solar Energy

Job Description

Mechanical Superintendent

Job Overview:

Responsible for executing the construction schedule, purchasing, and managing daily issues involved during the construction of solar generation projects. The Mechanical Supervisor coordinates all site construction activities and supervises all mechanical field personnel as required to successfully complete the solar project on schedule and within budget. The mechanical supervisor works diligently to build a safe, high quality, profitable solar project.

Responsibilities and Duties:

· Leads by example to show that safety is the most important function, ensuring that all employees follow safe practices while working.

· Accountable to continually reinforce safe behaviors and correct at risk behaviors.

· Adheres to and ensures all site team members understand standard operating procedures.

· Ensures new hires receive job-and task-specific training prior to work commencing.

· Leads and supports the site team in technical, quality and safety, utilizing systems in place.

· Ensures company employees and contractors are adhering to the company safety policy.

· Promotes job site safety, encourages safe work practices, and rectifies job site hazards immediately.

Client Relationship and Management:

• Provides excellence in the management and delivery of the project, in-line with the client's expectations.

• Maintains positive relationships with customers, contractors, suppliers, and other employees.

• Communicates daily and weekly reports to ownership and project management.

Planning:

· Schedules and ensures appropriate staffing for daily construction activities with employees.

• Identifies potential schedule changes, workflow, and staffing issues.

• Maintains electrical construction schedule, identifies upcoming issues, and solves problems.

• Works with Project Managers and Electrical lead to order materials and schedules inspections as necessary throughout the process.

• Understands the project plans and specifications.

• Prepares schedules and supervises completion of a final mechanical punch list.

• Ensure site prep work is executed as per contracts, design, and specification.

• Inputs into the execution of overall construction plan.

· Reviews the engineer's drawings prior to beginning construction to ensure that the project can be built in a safe and reliable manner.

· Builds and maintains relationship with local AHJ as needed.

Leadership

· Directs, guides, and coaches’ mechanical team to ensure activities on site are understood and following established processes through quality checks.

· Identifies and mitigates potential employee issues.

· Manages and supports employee development and growth.

· Identifies and recruits additional staffing as needed.

· Provides regular and direct feedback on performance and goal progress.

· Coordinates and supervises all mechanical construction activities.

· Directs all electrical field personnel to achieve completion of the project on schedule, within budget, with quality workmanship that conforms to original plans and specifications.

· Promotes job site safety, encourages safe work practices, and rectifies job site hazards immediately.

· Coordinates all mechanical field functions including scheduling of any required outages.

· Identifies, deploys, and manages a high-performing team needed to accomplish business objectives.

· Provides a positive and engaging work environment.

· Identify project challenges and work to overcome the issues prior to damaging profitability, schedule and client satisfaction.

• Continue to learn and improve knowledge as it relates to construction.

• Work with the electrical team to efficiently deliver projects.

• Identifies and gets Coral Reef certified on multiple racking applications and solutions.

Qa/Qc:

· Manages quality control program to ensure processes are implemented according to the design of the project and are consistent.

· Maintains an organized job site, including in the onsite construction office.

· Manages QA for mechanical construction.

· Manages design change notices.

· Manages subcontractor contracts to ensure compliance.

· Manages the mechanical material on site.

· Manages Safety of mechanical crews to the highest level.

· Environment

· Provides the required documents, drawings, and other forms to active projects for monitoring and maintaining the EMS.

· Ensures all completion of all required permitting activities before commencement of work.

Qualifications:

· (5) years experience in construction and management of people.

· NABCEP Training,

· OSHA 30

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Ability to lift and / or carry up to 75 pounds daily.

· Ability to walk on uneven, slippery, and muddy conditions.

· Ability to sit and / or stand for extended periods of time, up to 10 hours daily.

· Ability to work outdoors in all environmental conditions.

· Ability to operate and maneuver on and off an all-terrain vehicle throughout the day.

· Ability to work on roofs.

Will be subject to other physical activities required, to include climbing, bending, stooping, crouching, kneeling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, feeling, seeing, talking, hearing and performing repetitive motions. Visual acuity requirements include color, depth perception and range of vision necessary to safely perform job functions.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential duties of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Outdoor work in all environmental conditions.

NOTE:

A review of this description has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and requirements are essential job functions. This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to perform any other job-related duties assigned by their supervisor. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” employment relationship.

Equal Opportunity Employer
We provide opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: On the road