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Description

The Logistics Foreman directs the tasks of Laborers and Material handlers and directs the coordination of logistics for residential/commercial/industrial project material management.

**Compensation for this Role:** $32.00 - $45.00 per hour, depending on experience (plus additional job site incentives)

General Responsibilities

+ Works with a commitment to safety

+ Upholds the core values of Encore Electric

+ Acts as a professional and uses basic work ethics

+ Comes to work on time every day with appropriate attire and tools

+ Keeps work area clean

+ Installs quality work in a neat and workmanship like manner

+ Treats tools with respect

+ Works and climbs on ladders, lifts, and elevated platforms

+ Identifies electrical parts and components

+ Perform strenuous physical work i.e., digging, kneeling, shoveling, lifting, pulling, pushing, climbing

+ Keeps up with changing technology

+ Keeps up with the national electrical code

+ Wears tools at all required times

+ Work in all weather conditions

Specific Responsibilities

Leadership

+ Supervise Laborers, material handlers actively presenting leadership skills at the highest level

+ Supervise individuals moving material and equipment and training laborers and material handlers to do the same

+ Act as the go to person in the field

+ Establish, maintain, promote and participate in Encore’s mentoring program

+ Train, develop, mentor and coach up and coming various levels of future supervision

+ Motivate crew and project, keeping morale up on projects

+ Communicate goals for the jobsite to employees working at all levels of Encore Electric, Inc. using the tell-back procedure

+ Promote continuing education

+ Lay out and organizes assigned tasks to apprentices and journeymen

+ Lead by example

Process Improvement

+ Engage and help to develop new Encore standards and processes and hold others accountable to them

+ Participate in Foremen meetings

Risk Management

+ Take accountability and responsibility for safety, quality control and productivity in his area ensuring employees do it safe, do it right, then work on speed and on other projects

+ Catch and correct errors

Ensure employees follow policies and procedures, by:

+ Enforcing company cell phone usage

+ Taking accountability for counseling and correcting employees acting as a witness and raising the flag when something isn’t right

+ Ensuring employees work safely wearing all proper Personal Protective Equipment

+ Ensure the crew has adequate tools, materials, craftsmen and labor force

+ Maintain a secondary and in some cases third plan

+ Take daily accountability of project/crews and stages of project progress

+ Find and avoid potential crises/fixing problems when necessary

+ Serve as a frontline field representative

+ Track material and purchase orders

+ Communicate and coordinate with other trades for the project

+ Orientate employees to safety, logistics and scope on the jobsite

+ Review rigging plans for equipment

Take accountability for their continuing education including:

+ Level of foremanship classes

+ Keeping up with changing technology

+ Keeping up with the national electrical code

+ OSHA 30

Customer Service

Preplan the project to stay at least two weeks ahead of crew ensuring the work and material are available for the crew, including:

+ Ordering material and tools for the jobsite, ensuring preplanning has been done

+ Acting conscientiously about costs

+ Keeping a daily to do list

+ Understanding abilities of crew

+ Scheduling and accurately manloads crew communicating with other foreman

+ Prioritize according to the needs of the project and the customer

+ Create punch list for crew and follows up to ensure it is completed

Effectively communicate and define employees role with them on the project, ensuring employee understands how they fit into the overall job and how the foreman wants their work done, by:

+ Effectively communicates with superiors

+ Abide by specifications, value engineering and contract documents for installations

General

+ Familiar with all phases of the construction project

+ Participate and take notes in meetings

+ Constantly carry writing instrument and notepad

Walk jobs and:

+ Provide feedback to Foreman, Project Manager, Board of Directors or Director of Project Resources as needed

+ Provide job walk report

+ Evaluate project

+ Assigned to other projects determined to have high risks

+ Perform daily huddles (i.e. up and coming tasks)

+ Accountable for daily logs for his area, providing input and communicating with immediate supervisor

+ Operate computer including email, Microsoft Office and scheduling software

+ Establish material handling required for the job

+ Perform duties as assigned by supervisor

+ Take accountability for a neat and clean work area

+ Other duties as may be assigned

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

Knowledge of:

+ The construction process from scheduling to manpower to the labor, materials and equipment required for installation

+ Constructability and the construction process

+ Algebra and geometry

Skill in:

+ Acting as a self starter

+ Working with little supervision

+ Spatial orientation

+ Customer management

+ Listening

+ Speaking intelligently

+ Estimating resources needed to complete required tasks

+ Adapting to new and changing requirements, environments, and/or information

+ Managing people and processes

+ Managing complex projects, breaking them down to their component levels

+ Using communication software

+ Effective written and oral communication sufficient to be able to elicit and communicate information and achieve understanding

+ Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with customers, vendors, consultants, management, and employees

+ Operating a computer

+ Operate Microsoft office products

+ Organizing work to accomplish tasks

+ Reading and writing

+ Prioritizing and reprioritizing to meet job needs

+ Identifying and managing risk

+ Problem solving

+ Tracking numbers and bits of data relevant to the work assignment

Ability to:

+ Retain and access critical information from memory

+ Operate all forms of material moving equipment

+ Conceptualize and visualize the project for constructability means and methods

+ Think on your feet

+ Understand when to speak and when not to speak

+ Be personally detached from ideas (no ego)

+ See things from multiple perspectives

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

A functional physical is required to be completed and passed before work can be performed in all field positions. The physical requirements can often be completed repetitively and for extended periods of time. These requirements include:

+ Driving

+ Sitting

+ Climbing

+ Lifting, floor to chest (up to 50lbs)

+ Lifting, floor to waist (up to 50lbs)

+ Lifting, waist to overhead (up to 30lbs each arm)

+ Carrying (up to 50lbs)

+ Standing

+ Stooping

+ Vision acuity (near, far and without color deficiencies)

+ Walking

+ Kneeling

+ Trimming (final installation of electrical devices)

+ Pushing (up to 100lbs)

+ Pulling (up to 100lbs)

REQUIREMENTS:

High School Diploma or equivalent is required with a degree in related field is preferred. Demonstrated leadership skills are required with the completion of Leadership Level I Leadership (Supervision) being preferred.

Benefits:

+ Encore Electric provides excellent benefits for our employees, including: **medical, dental, and vision plans, disability, and life insurance, employee-matched 401(k), paid time off (PTO), an employee assistance program that includes counseling, legal, and financial advice.**

+ Encore also provides a generous employee referral program, and access to technical, safety, personal finance, and leadership training through Encore University, Encore’s in house training program.

+ **This position is eligible for cell phone allowances, and the short-term incentive program.**

Applications will close for this position on: December 31, 2025.

_To request an accommodation during the application process, please contact_ [email protected]_ _._

Encore Electric, Inc. is an EOE, including disability/vets.

Equal Opportunity Employer

This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws.

For further information, please review the Know Your Rights (https://www.eeoc.gov/poster) notice from the Department of Labor.