gridware - Senior Field Supervisor

• Team Leadership • Lead, develop, and manage a team of Field Operations Supervisors anchored to major US regions • Own weekly 1:1s, quarterly performance reviews, growth plans, and career development for each direct report • Manage hourly field technicians schedules and timesheets • Hire new Field Operations Supervisors as the team scales regionally and internationally • Coordinate and run trainings for new cohorts of technicians and refresh training for the existing team • Build the bench — identify high-performing technicians as future supervisor candidates • Field Execution at Scale • Own day-to-day performance of the field supervisor team across all active customer deployments • Manage capacity plans for the team to ensure we have appropriate staffing for customer demand • Coordinate cross-region planning for new customer expansions and peak install cycles • Drive consistent supervisor practice across customers and regions, even where customer-specific requirements differ • Visit deployments alongside supervisors during peak windows and during key phases (like week 1 of a big expansion) • Serve as the primary escalation point for the supervisor team — safety, delays, contractor issues, customer-facing field decisions • Standards, Playbooks & Training • Own the playbooks, training materials, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) to support the scale of the field operations team • Author and maintain the supervisor onboarding program in partnership with HR/L&D • Convert field learnings and incident findings into updated SOPs and training • Revise contractor training and safety training in partnership with EH&S • Contractor & Vendor Performance • Own the team's interface with Gridware contracted line crews • Partner with the Senior Manager on vendor performance management, contract terms, and net-new contractor exploration • Cross-Functional Collaboration • Provide structured feedback from the field team into product design, install tooling, and field app development • Partner with Finance & Sr. Manager of Field Operations on unit cost tracking by region, customer, and crew, and on contractor cost levers • Represent Field Operations in customer-facing escalation conversations when appropriate • Safety & Compliance • Own daily execution of the safety program across the supervisor team • Set tailboard and Job Hazard Analysis standards across team and ensure consistent use of safety tooling • Lead safety reviews following any incident and convert findings into updated practice • Enforce safety policies and best practices across the team's deployments