Construction Supervisor

About This Role

This role leads and manages the construction management functions throughout the lifecycle of projects for an electric utility. The supervisor ensures that projects are planned, designed, constructed, and commissioned according to specified policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Provide 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 contracts
• Manage or self-perform activities and tasks to successfully contract out PPL EU work, including outage planning, outage submission, permit and tag, switching, construction scope of work, managing contractor crews, and verifying material delivery
• Participate in the review and award of construction proposals with PPL EU Sourcing
• Understand the terms and conditions in contracts and manage construction contractors to those terms and conditions
• Review and approve construction change orders for work not in scope, or changes to scope of work
• Participate in claims dispute and resolution sessions
• Verify contractor invoices, ensuring work invoiced has been completed
• Manage or self-perform constructability assessments during the conceptual design and engineering phase of a project, including identifying physical site requirements, access roads, laydown areas, pad sizes, equipment parameters, cost estimates, outage planning, construction sequencing, risk assessment, and scheduling
• Review deliverables from the Siting, Real Estate, Permitting, Procurement, and Engineering groups to ensure concurrence with the construction plan associated with a project
• Work with the project team to develop and implement corrective actions when safety, schedule, scope, or costs impacts are forecasted or experienced
• Ensure PPL EU contractors have approved work plans and fully understand the scope and requirements for performing work, including performing safety briefings, job walk-downs, and job site assessments
• Supervise and conduct contractor briefings in accordance with GSP 19
• Ensure completeness and quality of construction workmanship before accepting the finished product
• Manage the Construction Quality and Asset Commissioning functions of a project
• Provide regular project status, feedback, and critical path items to the PPL EU Construction Management, Engineering, and Project Management Groups
• Maintain working knowledge of industry construction best practices and applications at PPL EU
• Supervise employees in-person to ensure compliance with FLSA wage and hour issues as well as to monitor compliance with safety rules
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Comply with all policies and standards