Summary
     Wake Electric is seeking a skilled Underground Distribution Foreman to lead underground construction and maintenance crews in the installation, repair, and inspection of our electric distribution system. This position plays a vital role in ensuring safety, reliability, and service quality for our members.
The Foreman works under the direction of the Construction Superintendent and oversees day-to-day field operations, ensuring compliance with OSHA, NESC, and RUS standards while promoting Wake Electric’s core values of safety, integrity, and member service.

Principal Duties 

• Supervise and coordinate underground line crews performing installation, maintenance, and repair of electric distribution systems.
• Conduct daily tailgate/prejob briefings and enforce Wake Electric’s safety standards and OSHA regulations.
• Plan work with the Construction Superintendent to support new construction, service upgrades, and maintenance projects.
• Perform and document inspections of all underground facilities, transformers, switchgears and secondary systems.
• Respond to outages, service requests, and emergency restoration events in a timely and professional manner.
• Operate and direct safe use of vehicles and heavy equipment; must possess valid CDL class A license.
• Train, mentor, and evaluate crew members to ensure technical proficiency and safety awareness.
• Complete timesheets, work orders, and material usage reports accurately and on schedule.
• Promote positive member relations and uphold the cooperative’s mission and values.
• May require irregular hours, on-call duty, and storm/emergency response, with potential to work long hours.
• Maintain good housekeeping in all areas of scoped work
• Ensure proper tagging and identifying of cables including how to identify mis marked cables, and skill to properly lockout/tagout and grounding procedures.
• Demonstrate proper tool calibration, and know the proper tools for each task

• Operate any style bucket/digger derrick trucks etc. as well as operation of earth moving equipment (ie: Mini-EX, Back hoe etc) safely
• Proficient with 3 way communications and communicating with dispatching operations during outages and understanding safe switching operations

Install/terminate and identify all phases of underground work including setting equipment, terminating elbows, splices, and dip pole terminations of both primary and secondary size wires including 1000kcmil primary to 1/0 tpx.