Overhead Construction Supervisor

Key Responsibilities

• 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 and confirm 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 as they arise.
• Monitor and forecast material needs to support field execution.
• Verify owner-furnished equipment and project materials are properly received, stored, tagged, used, returned, and documented.
• Support proper handling, labeling, storage, and disposal of waste materials, including treated wood and other regulated materials.
• Perform field inspections and document construction progress, completed units, field conditions, issues, risks, and required follow-up.
• Review contractor invoices, completed units, and supporting documentation for accuracy.
• Support outage requests, outage coordination, access planning, and related field documentation as needed.
• Read and interpret one-lines, circuit maps, construction drawings, work packages, and field documentation.
• Communicate with Division Operations, project leadership, contractors, and other stakeholders as needed.
• Participate in weekly project update meetings and provide clear field status updates.
• Support incident investigations by documenting field conditions, taking photographs, preparing written summaries, and making required notifications to project leadership.
• Coordinate with senior supervisors or project managers before releasing contractors due to inclement weather, outage cancellation, work stoppage, or other field changes.
• Promote a strong safety culture and ensure work is executed in a professional, disciplined, and utility-compliant manner.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• 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 required.
• 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.
• Experience with 69kV and below overhead line construction preferred.
• 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.
• Strong communication, documentation, coordination, and issue-resolution skills.
• Ability to work independently in the field and represent CARIAN professionally with clients, contractors, operations teams, and project stakeholders.
• Ability to travel to project sites throughout New Jersey.
• Availability to support outage-driven schedules, off-hours work, overtime, emergency response, or weekend work as project needs require.

Preferred Experience

Why CARIAN

Equal Employment Opportunity

Compensation

• The hourly rate range for this role is $55 – $82 per hour. This range represents a good-faith estimate at the time of posting; actual compensation will depend on experience, qualifications, assignment requirements, schedule, and other factors permitted by law. In addition to base compensation, the role includes eligibility for applicable overtime, a comprehensive benefits package, and a company 401(k) match.