Supervisor, Contract Construction

About Us

Elizabethtown Gas is a natural gas utility company that delivers safe, reliable, and affordable natural gas to over 300,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers in Union, Middlesex, Sussex, Warren, Hunterdon, Morris, and Mercer counties. At our core, we’re dedicated to being a committed community partner, delivering exceptional customer service and developing innovative clean energy solutions to meet the needs of the future.

At Elizabethtown Gas, we believe that our employees are our most valuable asset. Whether you’re a seasoned operations technician or an early-career legal professional, our culture, inclusive workforce, and  leadership development and training programs will provide you with the tools you need to either kickstart your career or bring it to new heights.

Position Summary

The purpose of this position is to oversee and manage the successful completion of Capital Construction projects/programs to the gas transmission and distribution systems for Elizabethtown Gas. This position is accountable for the internal employees and external contractors who are responsible for timely delivery of all projects in a safe, quality, and cost-effective manner, compliant with all federal, state, local, and corporate requirements. The individual in this role will supervise a team of professional employees who oversee pipeline contractors responsible for the physical installation of natural gas facilities. This person drives quality and safety expectations and ensures that those standards are met within a functional or regional area.

Essential Functions:

• Provide structure, leadership, vision and direction for direct internal reports within a functional or regional arena of responsibility. Influences external contractors who represent the company by shadowing corporate values.

• Champions Quality Assurance (e.g., policies, procedures, standards) and Quality Control on all capital construction projects.

• Reviews high cost project estimates on behalf of construction and advises Program Management Team in accordance with authorization approval policies.

• Manages the customer on-boarding experience to ensure all customers are extended service in a timely manner.

• Analyzes and interprets key construction metrics to create opportunities for improvement.

• Recommends mitigation strategies for key construction risks.

• Performs construction reviews for project designs. Evaluates and recommends field design changes to optimize project investment and spend.  

• Oversees the completion of all capital construction work for a specified geographic location.

• Drives results through performance management of staff including setting expectations, evaluating results and taking corrective action as needed. 

• Directs “root-cause” analysis on any self-inflicted gas damage or customer outage related to construction.

• Develop and implement new processes and procedures resulting from “lessons learned” meetings and “root cause” studies.

• Actively and efficiently manage capital construction work through associated Work Orders within Company approved asset management system.

• Performs other duties as assigned.  

• Some business travel required

Physical Requirements:

• Potential driving up to four (4) hours at a time.

• Sitting and/or Keyboarding.

• Walking of construction sites.

• Climb in/out of excavations, kneel, bend, and climb ladders to inspect pipeline construction activity.

• Exposure to all types of weather.

• Exposure to normal linear construction activities.

• Normal office environment.

Qualifications

Education:

• Required: High School Diploma/GED

• Pref