Title: Electrical Construction Manager I
Location with zip code: Saginaw, MI
Duration: 7+ months
Pay rate: $60.00/hr. on w2
Shift Timing (Day/ Evening/ Night): 1st shift
Job Description:
The Consumers Energy (CE) Electrical Construction Manager is responsible for leading and overseeing construction activities for transmission, distribution, and substation projects within the CE service territory.
This role champions a safety-first environment, ensuring all work is performed in strict accordance with CE safety principles, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
The CM ensures safe, compliant, and reliable execution of field work while upholding utility construction standards and system operating constraints.
This role provides on-site leadership, coordinates CE crews and contractors, supports energization planning, and ensures alignment with engineering, operations, and system protection groups.
Manage all phases of field construction for utility substation, transmission, and high-voltage distribution projects (typically 12kV-500kV).
Supervise contracted workforce; ensure work adheres to CE standards, drawings, and approved work packages.
Oversee all field activities with an uncompromising commitment to CE's "Safety First” culture.
Coordinate switching clearances and tagging, outages, and energization activities with system operations.
Develop and manage construction sequencing to minimize customer impact, maintain system reliability, and meet capital project milestones.
Lead by example in promoting CE's safety-first culture in every action, decision, and field interaction.
Enforce CE safety policies, Life-Saving Rules, and Human
Performance principles aligned with utility safety programs and regulatory requirements.
Ensure strict compliance with OSHA 1910.269, NESC, NEC, NFPA 70/70E, and state/local regulations.
Conduct and document daily tailboards, job briefings, safety audits, and field verifications.
Immediately address unsafe conditions or behaviors; ensure stop-work authority is understood and exercised appropriately.
Confirm contractor compliance with CE safety qualification requirements, training, and adherence to CE-approved work methods.
Actively identify safety risks, drive mitigation strategies, and reinforce expectations regarding incident prevention and reporting.
Interpret engineering packages, one-line diagrams, schematics, transmission line profiles, structure drawings, and P&C wiring prints.
Oversee installation of substation equipment (breakers, transformers, relays, switches, bus work, grounding, steel structures) and overhead/underground line components.
Conduct detailed quality checks and inspections; verify compliance with CE construction standards, material specifications, and safe work practices.
Review and validate testing results for transformers, breakers, relays, control circuits, and grounding systems to ensure safe and acceptable performance.
Serve as the primary field liaison between engineering, operations, planning, protection & control, and project management.
Manage outage coordination, clearance requests, and switching procedures with system operations.
Lead construction coordination meetings with internal teams and external contractors with emphasis on safety, schedule, and risk.
Communicate progress, issues, risks, safety concerns, and commissioning readiness to project stakeholders.
Track labor, equipment, and material usage to monitor budget adherence.
Manage schedules and align resources to meet key operational dates and outage windows while maintaining a safety-first mindset.
Support material procurement, staging, and logistics for field installation.
Identify scope variances and field changes; support resolution through engineering coordination or change request processes.
Travel within the service territory; 85-90% of time spent on active job sites.
Ability to work extended hours or off shifts during outages, cutovers, or emergency response events.
Demonstrated commitment to CE's core values of safety, reliability, and regulatory compliance.
Required Experience:
8-15 years of experience in utility transmission, distribution, or substation construction or field operations.
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About our Company: -
22nd Century Technologies, Inc., is one of the fastest growing IT Service Integrator and Workforce Solution companies in the United States. Founded in 1997, 22nd Century Technologies is a Certified National Minority Business Enterprise with 6,000+ people including 600+ Cyber SMEs nationwide supporting our customers in all 50 states, Canada, and Mexico. With HQs in Somerset, NJ and Mclean, VA, 22nd Century has 14 offices throughout the United States. As part of our unrelenting focus on quality and compliance, 22nd Century Technologies’ delivery is based on Certified Matured Processes including CMMI L3 Dev & SVC, ISO 20000, ISO 27001, and ISO 9001 quality processes. With a strong focus on the public sector, 22nd Century currently holds government contracts with 14 out of 15 Federal Executive agencies including DoD, 37 other Federal agencies, 50 States, 115+ Local agencies, and 37 School Districts. In the last three years, we have expanded our services to Fortune 500 and other commercial clients and currently support 80+ commercial clients.
Recognized among “Best Company to Work For” by Forbes, 22nd Century Technologies, Inc., consistently exceeds our clients’ expectations by focusing on their absolute satisfaction with jobs while keeping our employees motivated.
“22nd Century Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer" and “US Citizens & all other parties authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply."
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
