Senior Supervisor, Depot

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National Grid is hiring a Senior Supervisor (Internal and External), Capital Delivery Supervision for Whitinsville, Massachusetts.

Job Purpose

The Senior Supervisor, Material Handing at the Construction Depot will supervise employees that provide material management services for capital projects and electric operations. Your role is to provide leadership and technical direction to the assigned union employees at the Construction Depot within the Internal Substation Construction Department in the execution and coordination of material logistics for all electric construction projects and Field Accounting activities. You will manage appropriate staffing levels, safety, training, and qualifications for material management. This position routinely interacts with operations managers, customers, other supervisors, planners, and schedulers to coordinate work activities and meet the organizational goals.

Key Accountabilities

• Supervise and coordinate activities of assigned department personnel engaged with receiving shipments, handling materials and managing inventory.
• Coordinate the material logistics for all Capital electric construction projects from receiving and pre-construction inventory, through bundling and preparation of materials for delivery to various job sites
• Responsible for managing stock levels and maintaining spare inventory.
• Serve as the liaison between the different engineering groups, distribution centers, vendors, operations, and Substation In-House Construction crews for the delivery and receipt of all project materials.
• Oversee Field Accounting activities such as employee time entry, equipment rentals, and timely processing and payment of invoices.
• Assure that assigned personnel are productively assigned to the highest priority work, trained, and evaluated within National Grid guidelines and procedures and state and federal requirements. Conduct employee performance assessments and assist with development plans.
• Establish and implement a clean, uncluttered, and safe worksite.
• Assign daily specific work activities on the approved schedule and set expectations for working leader oversight/coordination of daily work.
• Ensure qualifications for assigned employees are current and meet the company’s training and progression timelines per state, federal and union contract requirements.
• Perform duties as a member of the Fleet and other safety related committees.
• Provide regular feedback to assigned employees, continually develop skills, coach and mentor assigned employees to ensure work is executed as expected and conduct performance appraisals.
• Ensure employee regular and overtime hours are managed in accordance with union contract requirements. Establish and communicate overtime schedules.
• Develop and improve standard operating procedures to promote consistency in lifting / rigging, material management, and field accounting activities.
• Establish and maintain performance metrics to measure the effectiveness of the assigned group.
• Promote a professional work environment with established objectives, policies, procedures and plans.
• Comprehensive knowledge of work planning, risk assessment, controls, union contract requirements, OSHA requirements.
• Assure that required vehicles, equipment, materials and tools used by personnel are available and maintained at proper levels.
• Assure that high standards of safety, security and environmental compliance are developed, met and maintained at the Construction Depot.
• Assure that required paperwork is accurate and submitted on time (e.g. vehicle inspection reports, job briefings, tailboard discussion, time sheets, etc.).
• Understand and interpret the union labor agreement to assure uninterrupted and safe workflow.
• Maintain a thorough understanding of department emergency response procedures to help arrange and provide resource support as needed. Remain available to be contacted, by phone in the event of a system emergency.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 3 years demonstrated experience leading teams within a collective bargaining environment.
• A minimum 5 years relevant experience in material management.
• Knowledge of Federal, State, OSHA, local, safety, and environmental rules and regulations.
• Ability to develop a working knowledge of National Grid’s maintenance practices, safe work practices and labor contracts.
• Ability to work as a team and independently.· Must be self-motivated and have strong time management and record keeping skills.
• Ability to develop, administer, and enforce a strong safety culture.· Maintain an unrestricted driver’s license.
• Able to travel throughout the service territory and willing to work extended hours when required and for system emergencies.
• Requires knowledge and functional responsibility for proper operations of forklifts and telehandler operations.
• Highly skilled communicator both verbally and in writing. Ability to employ computer applications such as SAP, material management software, MS Office
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to interact effectively with a diverse team.

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