Senior Supervisor, Distribution Line Worker

National Grid is hiring a Distribution Line Senior Supervisor for our Electric Overhead department in Beverly or Malden MA. This is an in-office and in the field position

Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live.

The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry. To be successful we must anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow. This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business.

• Supervise a culturally diverse workforce through coaching, counseling and team building to ensure tasks are carried out in an efficient manner.
• Oversee the Overhead Electric operational workload of team to ensure allocated resources are fully utilized in order to deliver against agreed upon work plan and execute work activities within planned unit and budget cost.
• Ensure supervised Overhead Electric teams comply with safety standards, polices, and processes in order to ensure safe working environment and minimize risk for all staff.
• Review, ensure accuracy and execute the approval of area purchase orders, invoices, and payroll activities.
• Execute all work tasks in Compliance with all Company, Federal and State policy, and regulatory requirements.
• Build good working relationships with internal and external customers and manage day to day relationship with them in order to understand their requirements and deliver appropriate solutions within National Grid policies and processes.
• Monitor performance of allocated Overhead staff including issues relating to sickness, discipline, and poor standards of work in order to ensure that work is performed effectively and efficiently.
• Act as the Overhead first point of contact for multiple internal stakeholders and outside agencies in order to provide support and ensure National Grid deliver against service level agreement.
• Promote and implement Overhead Electric best practices in order to ensure all work tasks achieve high productivity and low costs.
• Ability to work off-hours and on call rotations. This includes requiring travel outside the division for emergency assignments.

• Bachelor's degree preferred in a related area and/or 2-5 years' of related experience
• Technically proficient within subject matter and experience of leading a team involved in operations activities is preferred.
• Ability and knowledge to develop standard operating procedures for field personal to perform overhead electric work and connections on energized distribution/transmission facilities preferred.
• Valid Driver's License with a Safe Driving History Required