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Join Us in Making History

Be part of one of the most important energy projects in New England’s history! The New England Clean Energy Corridor will harness hydropower and transmit clean energy throughout the region. Throughout the project, the Cianbro-Irby Joint Venture will have openings for talented line workers, equipment operators, and many more. Review the opportunities below to see what might fit your skillset, and join our team on this exciting project!

Opportunities Available

Hiring Update:
On January 15, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston intervened to temporarily stop construction in Segment 1. This has delayed our hiring efforts. Once the court lifts the temporary stop work order, construction will continue. We appreciate your patience through the hiring process.

Opportunities Available

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Cianbro Positions

Job Responsibilities:

  • Work as part of the management team on a jobsite(s) to ensure all team members are working safely and within the company guidelines and policies.
  • Actively observe and provide feedback around crew's work to eliminate at-risk behavior, identify safety issues and help ensure corrective actions are taken.
  • Perform injury management including minor first aid, incident root cause investigation and reporting, return to work as needed.
  • Conduct daily inspections of facility actively observing and providing feedback around crew's work, tools, and equipment to eliminate hazards and identify at-risk behavior; advise on and help ensure corrective actions are taken.
  • Take an active role in the planning of upcoming work on the site to help the team identify potential safety issues and solutions.
  • Assist with developing, conducting, and documenting the jobsite safety orientations for all new team members, subcontractors, and other appropriate vendors, visitors, etc.
  • Establish emergency planning with project management, including identifying and arranging local emergency and healthcare services, identifying warning signals, evacuation assembly point, and escape routes.
  • Develop and set up systems to insure proper handling of all Hazardous Material Including proper use, storage, shipment, spill control and cleanup, and disposal.
    Ensure compliance with all Safety or Environmental requirements per state and federal regulations.§  Perform periodic industrial hygiene and environmental sampling.
  • Ensure compliance with all Safety or Environmental requirements per state and federal regulations.
  • Perform periodic industrial hygiene and environmental sampling.
  • Participate in the corporate safety audit (X-ray) process and the follow-up required.
  • Assist with equipment and tool coordination.
  • Property maintenance/repair and coordination.
  • On site subcontractor coordination.
  • Audit rubber glove testing, assured grounding, FR Clothing, and Spill Kit programs.
  • Assist in cross training other safety specialists in T&D specific competencies.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of grounding best practices and equipotential zones.

Qualifications / Requirements:

  • 5 years T&D field-related construction safety experience is preferred but not required.
  • Associates or Bachelor degree. (Safety field preferred)
  • CPR, AED, OSHA 30, and First Aid certification required.
  • Good interpersonal, communication and organizational skills are essential.
  • Proficient computer skills in Microsoft office including Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
  • CUSP,CHST, OHST, STS, CSP, EMT certifications a plus.
  • A background in physical therapy is a plus.
  • Employee must hold a valid driver's license. Regional travel required.
  • Ability to shift easily between projects and priorities and to manage multiple projects.
  • Strong sense of urgency in the accurate completion of tasks.
  • Ability to be effective in a diverse and multicultural work environment with internal and external customers.
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Job Responsibilities:

  • Observe and practice all corporate safety policies and procedures.
  • Recognize and control the hazards involved inworking in a substation.
  • Interprets electrical construction blueprints and Elementary Drawings.
  • Install electrical below and above grade raceways and wiring.
  • Installation of equipment related to metering, communication systems, and relaying systems which include electro-mechanical and solid-state electronic types where applicable.
  • Performs all phases of installation, maintenance, repair, and inspection of electrical and instrumentation systems and service work.
  • Installs, repairs, and maintains electrical motors, complex electronic devices, control panels, relays, conduit, and switches ensuring proper electrical operation.
  • Uses meter and motor testing equipment.
  • Ability to understand control schematics.
  • Ability to read and understand installation instructions and wiring diagrams for basic equipment.
  • Ability to check phasing through a system.

Qualifications / Requirements:

  • Minimum of 3 years of experience.
  • Completed electrical apprenticeship program.
  • Preferred OSHA 1910.269 Certified.
  • Knowledge of technical practices in order to plan, layout, and complete maintenance or repair needed for high voltage equipment.
  • Skilled in using and maintaining electrical tools and test equipment such as rotation meters, digital test equipment, amp meters, voltmeters, meggers.
  • Knowledge of Substation grounding to create an equipotential work zone and skilled in installing protection grounds.
  • Must have related experience in a high voltage environment.
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Job Responsibilities:

  • Safe operation of a variety of heavy construction vehicles and equipment.
  • Responsible for daily inspection of equipment and perform basic repair and maintenance as needed to ensure the safe working condition of all equipment.
  • Read and understand various types of load charts.
  • Maintain a clean work environment.

Qualifications / Requirements:

  • Minimum of 3 years of experience as a heavy equipment operator.
  • Knowledge of operation and maintenance of a variety of heavy construction vehicles and equipment.
  • Knowledge of principles and practices of routine and preventative maintenance of heavy construction vehicles and equipment.
  • Knowledge of principles and procedures of documentation and record-keeping including operators books.
  • Knowledge of occupational hazards and standard safety practices.
  • Knowledge of safe load securing practices/rigging experience is a plus.
  • Understanding of hand signals.
  • State licensing may be required depending upon the state.
  • NCCER certification is a plus.
  • CDL license is a plus.
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Job Responsibilities:

  • Safely position and unite steel girders, columns, and other structural members to form completed structures or structural frameworks.
  • Read specifications and blueprints to determine the locations, quantities, and sizes of materials required.
  • Set up hoisting equipment for raising and placing structural steel members. Hoist steel beams, girders, and columns into place using cranes, using hand signals, and tag lines.
  • Verify alignment and plumbing of steel structures and make corrections to erected structures as needed.
  • Connect columns, beams, and girders with bolts following blueprints using various bolts, nuts, washers, and torquing.

Qualifications / Requirements:

  • Must have a minimum of 3 years of experience with layout, connecting, and rigging.
  • The ability to work at all heights is a must.
  • Ability to read blueprints, interpret symbols and abbreviations on plans and drawings.
  • Prior rigging experience to include knowledge of hand signals, rigging gear, inspection, and proper use.
  • NCCER certification is a plus.
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Job Responsibilities:

  • Assist in proper project planning, value-added engineering means and methods, developing work packages, and preparing production indicators/benchmarks, and developing the master schedule.
  • Ensure proper environmental permits are in place  (identify any state or local laws relating to environmental compliance); Educate our team to ensure understanding and compliance with permit requirements.
  • Interpret design/drawings for crafts installing material. Research and resolve drawing interpretation problems, conflicts, interferences, and errors. Verify that all completed work complies with applicable codes, drawings, and specifications.
  • Provide engineering input to the daily job log.
  • Interpret production goals from work packages for craft supervisors, ensuring full understanding to enable daily communication of productivity goals to crews executing the work.
  • Verify quantity tracking data and measure productivity.
  • Track progress of the major Vendors and Subcontractors to ensure that materials are manufactured and delivered in a timely fashion as not to impact the project schedule.
  • Maintain the project schedule to aid project leadership in knowing where they are and making decisions for how to achieve project goals, with input from others.
  • Generate and maintain the project submittal log, Requests For Information log, and correspondence with client/owner.
  • Generate and maintain contract compliance listings, buyout logs, and procurement reports.
  • Identify, document, and estimate costs of extra work activities, which were not anticipated in the original scope, and provide proper notification and financial reporting of change orders. Establish and maintain a project change order log that ties to the UAR.
  • Coordinate the transmittal and subsequent approval of all submittals to the owner/engineer.

Qualifications / Requirements:

  • Requires a 4-year degree in engineering or construction management.
  • Knowledge of all aspects of construction (technology, equipment, methods): craft agreements, jurisdiction, negotiations, engineering, estimating, schedules, and safety preferred.
  • Excellent communication, organizational and supervisory skills essential.
  • Demonstrated ability to identify and implement detailed solutions to complex technical problems.
  • Computer skills including Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.
  • Must be willing to travel.
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Job Responsibilities:

  • Understand and work in accordance with the overall project schedule and budget.
  • Work together with project supervision on a daily basis to communicate production goals and quality specifications of work, discuss issues that have surfaced (around people, means and methods, material or equipment use, etc. extra or out of scope work), and ideas to help the team achieve project goals.
  • Participate in planning means and methods.
  • Accurately record and report crew work hours and quantities installed. Monitor and manage crew productivity. Ensure ongoing efforts are made to improve productivity.
  • Analyze production results and establish appropriate corrective actions, if required.
  • When rework is required, help the team learn from any mistakes and accurately record costs.
  • Forecast equipment, materials, or workforce needs as required; Help ensure all the resources for crew's activities are available when needed.
  • Seeks solutions to special requests or problems with their work in a timely and professional manner.
  • Use Activity Planning to effectively plan, organize and communicate specific details of work; sign off on all plans.
  • Understand the project cost code structure related to your work activities.

Qualifications / Requirements:

  • Extensive knowledge of heavy civil construction projects.
  • 5 plus years of supervisory experience in a heavy civil environment.
  • Must be able to read and understand contract and shop drawings and have competency with all fabrication equipment and processes.
  • Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and communicate in a timely, effective manner.  
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Job Responsibilities:

  • Safely position and unite steel girders, columns, and other structural members to form completed structures or structural frameworks.
  • Read specifications and blueprints to determine the locations, quantities, and sizes of materials required.
  • Set up hoisting equipment for raising and placing structural steel members. Hoist steel beams, girders, and columns into place using cranes, using hand signals, and tag lines.
  • Verify alignment and plumbing of steel structures and make corrections to erected structures as needed.
  • Connect columns, beams, and girders with bolts following blueprints using various bolts, nuts, washers, and torquing.

Qualifications / Requirements:

  • Must have a minimum of 3 years of experience with layout, connecting, and rigging.
  • The ability to work at all heights is a must.
  • Ability to read blueprints, interpret symbols and abbreviations on plans and drawings.
  • Prior rigging experience to include knowledge of hand signals, rigging gear, inspection, and proper use.
  • NCCER certification is a plus.
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Irby Positions

Job Responsibilities:

The Journeyman Lineman will be expected to build, maintain, and repair overhead transmission lines using approved standards under the direction of the crew foreman. Responsible for safe operation of equipment and operations on digger trucks (line trucks) and bucket trucks in order to construct and maintain electrical systems of de-energized overhead transmission lines.

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