Commercial electrical job descriptions
Every role a $20M business in this industry hires for: 21 Role Blueprints, from leadership to the field. Open any role for its full template and a free Word file.
Leadership 4
Chief Executive Officer
A commercial electrical chief executive officer decides which general contractors, owners and markets the company works for, and whether it runs union or open shop.
Chief Operating Officer
A commercial electrical chief operating officer decides how the company installs, tests and turns over electrical work on many buildings at once.
Chief Financial Officer
A commercial electrical chief financial officer pays crews and buys wire and gear weeks before a general contractor's payment clears, then waits out the retainage held until closeout.
General Manager
A commercial electrical general manager leads the construction division and its project managers, and is judged on how its jobs finish.
Managers 9
Field Supervisor
A commercial electrical field supervisor is the foreman on a building job, or the general foreman over several crews on a big one.
HR Manager
A commercial electrical HR manager keeps a contractor's electricians licensed, trained and cleared for each building site, and fills the openings a growing backlog creates.
Marketing Manager
A commercial electrical marketing manager gets the company on general contractors' bid lists and into property managers' contact lists.
Office Manager
A commercial electrical office manager runs billing and the office at a contractor working for general contractors and property managers.
Operations Manager
A commercial electrical operations manager staffs every open job with electricians and foremen, adding and pulling people as each building moves from rough-in to trim-out.
Production Manager
A commercial electrical production manager decides how the crews install and check their work, then sees that it happens on every job.
Project Manager
A commercial electrical project manager owns the paperwork, dates and money on a set of building jobs, from award to closeout.
Sales Manager
A commercial electrical sales manager is in charge of the reps selling tenant work, negotiated jobs and service deals to general contractors, owners and the firms that run buildings.
Warehouse Manager
A commercial electrical warehouse manager looks after the space where gear, fixture packages, wire reels and company tools wait for their jobs.
Office and sales 5
Customer Service Representative
A commercial electrical customer service rep is the first voice property managers, store managers and building engineers reach.
Dispatcher
A commercial electrical dispatcher decides which service electrician goes to which store, office, school or plant, and keeps each work order's status current in the scheduling software.
Bookkeeper
A commercial electrical bookkeeper pays the distributors, rental yards and payroll behind each building the company wires, and posts what general contractors and property managers pay back.
Inventory Specialist
A commercial electrical inventory specialist tracks the wire, fixtures, gear and fittings bought for each building job.
Sales Representative
A commercial electrical sales rep sells lighting retrofits, tenant build-outs and service upgrades to general contractors, property managers and building owners.
In the field 3
Apprentice Electrician
A commercial apprentice electrician learns the trade on office, store and tenant build-out jobs while working for a licensed electrician.
Journeyman Electrician
A commercial journeyman electrician holds a journeyman license, where the state issues one, and installs and services power, lighting and controls in offices, stores, schools and light industrial buildings.
Master Electrician
A commercial master electrician holds a state's top electrician license, where one exists, and makes the code calls and field design decisions on a contractor's commercial jobs.
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