Overhead Construction Supervisor

The role

The Overhead Construction Supervisor provides field supervision and oversight for overhead transmission and distribution construction, maintenance, and contractor work. This person coordinates daily field activities and monitors contractor performance across various project sites.

What you will do

• Provide field supervision and oversight for overhead transmission and distribution construction and maintenance activities.
• Report to contractor show-up locations, project sites, and other assigned field locations throughout New Jersey.
• Coordinate daily work activities with contractors, general foremen, operations personnel, project managers, and other field stakeholders.
• Confirm circuit availability, outage readiness, work assignments, crew counts, rosters, and daily work plans.
• Attend and witness morning tailboards, huddles, and job briefings.
• Review daily work plans with general foremen to ensure alignment with safety, schedule, outage, and construction requirements.
• Observe contractor crews to verify compliance with utility safety rules, work procedures, construction specifications, and approved work methods.
• Monitor field progress, work quality, crew performance, safety compliance, and schedule adherence.
• Mitigate safety issues, project concerns, field conflicts, and work execution issues.
• Monitor and forecast material needs to support field execution.

Required qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in overhead utility construction, line construction, transmission, distribution, maintenance, operations, or related electric utility field work
• Overhead line construction experience
• Experience supervising, coordinating, or overseeing contractors, crews, or field construction activities
• Knowledge of overhead transmission and distribution construction methods, materials, tools, equipment, and safety requirements
• Ability to read and interpret one-lines, circuit maps, construction drawings, work packages, and field documentation
• Ability to coordinate with operations teams regarding circuit availability, outages, clearances, and field work requirements
• Experience reviewing completed work units, material deliveries, field quantities, and contractor invoices
• Knowledge of utility material handling, receiving, verification, tagging, storage, and return processes
• Strong understanding of contractor oversight, field documentation, safety observation, quality control, and schedule coordination
• Knowledge of computer-based business applications and ability to complete required construction reporting and documentation
• Ability to travel to project sites throughout New Jersey

Nice to have

• Experience with 69kV and below overhead line construction
• 15+ years of overhead utility construction, maintenance, operations, or line construction experience
• Experience with electric utility clients and utility contractor oversight
• Experience with 13kV work rules, rubber glove and sleeves procedures, and overhead line safety practices
• Experience supporting outage requests, outage coordination, field switching coordination, or related utility work processes
• Experience working with Division Operations, general foremen, construction crews, project managers, and utility stakeholders
• Experience performing incident documentation, field investigations, and safety-related reporting
• Prior experience as an overhead construction supervisor, line supervisor, general foreman, line foreman, construction inspector, field supervisor, or owner’s representative
• OSHA 30

Benefits

• Strong compensation
• Full benefits
• 401(k) match

About the company

CARIAN is a purpose-driven, woman-owned consulting and advisory firm dedicated exclusively to the power sector. They partner with leading electric and gas utilities to provide strategic advisory and disciplined execution.