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Electrical Foreman jobs with H-1B visa sponsorship are available at contractors, utilities, and industrial employers who structure the role around degree-level electrical engineering or construction management duties. Each new worksite requires a certified LCA, and H-1B status runs up to three years, extendable to six.
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About M.C. Dean
M.C. Dean is Building Intelligence. We design, build, operate, and maintain cyber-physical solutions for the nation’s most mission-critical facilities, secure environments, complex infrastructure, and global enterprises. With over 9,000 employees, our capabilities span electrical, electronic security, telecommunications, life safety, automation and controls, audiovisual, and IT systems. Headquarters in Tysons, Virginia, M.C. Dean delivers resilient, secure, and innovative power and technology solutions through engineering expertise and smart systems integration.
Why Join Us?
Our people are passionate about engineering innovation that improves lives and drives impactful change. Guided by our core values—agility, expertise, and trust—we foster a collaborative and forward-thinking work environment. At M.C. Dean, we are committed to building the next generation of technical leaders in electrical, engineering, and cybersecurity industries.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Electrical Foreman 1 is responsible for supervising and coordinating the work of a crew of electricians, apprentices and laborers on a job site as well as ensuring that all work installed is completed on time, on budget and according to all applicable plans, specifications, codes and industry standards.
Responsibilities
- Productivity Planning for assigned scope of work
- Material Phasing – Organize Material by specific areas/floors. (keep track of materials inventories).
- Tools & Equipment - Identify all tools and equipment required to support each crew (Gang box Assignments, tool inspection and keep track of tools by signing sheet in-out).
- Information Packages – Each crew activity must have information packages (contract drawings, shop drawings, panel schedules, cut sheets, etc…).
- Keep control of breaks (loss time of personal breaks smoking time, conversation time).
- Daily hour/unit reports for their crews – Submit hours/units daily for each employee assigned to Foreman on established from (Standard Time Sheet).
- Quality control inspections of work completed – Must follow established QC plan & check lists.
- Responsible for installing the work in a professional manner and high-quality standard.
- Maintaining accurate as built drawings – As-built drawings are to be updated and logged onto master record contract drawings a minimum of once a week.
- Inventory of all tools & equipment at the day’s end for assigned tools & equipment. (Everything must be accountable & secure) inventory/inspection sheets to be turned in every Monday.
- Lost/Stolen/Damage tool report.
- AHA’s – All AHA’s related to Foreman’s scope of work must be reviewed, signed by each crew member and stored at their gang box in the field.
- Support Equipment Inspection – Foreman must submit daily equipment inspection sheets for all equipment assigned to Foreman once a week.
- Accident/Incident Reporting & Investigation – Must follow the established procedures for responding and reporting accident and incidents. All reports must be submitted within 24 hours of accident/incident.
- Clean Up – Foreman and Crew leader are responsible for all clean up related to their scope of work. All work areas are to be left in a broom swept condition at the end of the day.
Job Duties:
- Managing mid-sized to large projects of 15 or more persons.
- Conferring with senior management, supervisory personnel, owners, contractors and design professionals to discuss and resolve matters such as work procedures, complaints and construction problems.
- Scheduling the project in logical steps in order to budget enough time required to meet deadlines.
- Determining labor requirements and dispatching workers to construction sites.
- Planning, organizing and directing activities concerned with the construction and maintenance of structures, facilities and systems.
- Interpreting and explaining plans and contract terms to administrative staff, workers and clients.
- Preparing contracts and negotiating revisions, changes and additions to contractual agreements with architects, consultants, clients, suppliers and subcontractors.
- Directing and supervising workers including delegating responsibilities to foremen and electrical technicians and mentoring electrical technicians II and III in order to prepare them for promotion to the next career level.
- Monitoring project budgets in order to ensure positive cash flow and to maintain profitability.
- Inspecting and reviewing projects to monitor compliance with building and safety codes and other regulations.
Quality of work completed must follow:
- Ensure installation meets/exceeds codes, contractual obligations, best practices and other requirements as mandated by the Corporate Quality Policy.
- Ensure all facets of Project Quality Plan are reviewed and implemented. Any deviations are properly documented and communicated to site Q.C. representative for approval prior to proceeding any further.
- Participate and assist the Site Q.C. representative in the implementation of 3-Phase Quality Control, which includes Preparatory, Initial & Follow-up for each Definable Feature of Work (DFOW) under the crew leader’s responsibility.
- Properly document and return the CQC checklists to Site Q.C. representative ensuring installation inspections are done timely and facilitate the adherence to QAQC schedule.
- Initiate Various Discrepancy Notices (EDN, DDN, PDN, FDN, ADN, PITDN, CDN) in order to ensure issues arising during construction are properly documented and communicated for resolution.
- Review and provide feedback on weekly installation quality scorecards as generated by QAQC service center to ensure systemic issues are addressed through formal root cause, corrective and preventive action.
- Review ongoing quality issues identified in the daily Q.C. report with the crew to ensure mitigation/elimination of the nonconformities.
- Ensure nonconformity tags identified on discrepant installation by site Q.C. representative is timely resolved.
- Participate in QAQC Design Review of Engineering & Coordination drawings to identify constructability issues.
- Participate and provide feedback on Quality portion of the daily ORM work briefing.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Requirements
- At least 6 years of experience working in the electrical industry, including 2 years serving as a project foreman.
- High School diploma or GED.
- Possess a Journeyman Electrician license, preferred.
- Experience working with the Company’s management systems such as scheduling, job cost reports, estimating, safety documentation and quality control.
- Experience overseeing and approving monthly job cost updates and quarterly cash flow projections.
- Effectively plans manpower and has leadership skills to meet project objectives without significant labor spikes or overtime costs.
- Communicates effectively both verbally and in writing.
- Ability to work without direct supervision.
- Must have their own tools.
- This position may require ongoing or intermittent use of a company vehicle. Selected candidates must possess an acceptable driving record in accordance to our policy.
- Must successfully pass a background check.
Abilities:
- The position requires the ability to lift, carry, and move objects weighing up to [50 pounds] on a regular basis. Candidates must demonstrate physical strength and stamina to perform various tasks, including but not limited to, loading, and unloading, operating equipment, and assisting in the transportation of various materials. Proper lifting techniques and safety protocols must be followed to ensure personal and team safety.
- Relocates a 12-foot stepladder without assistance.
- Works at various heights up to 60 feet and can climb and maintain balance on scaffolds, aerial lifts, catwalks and all types of ladders.
- Walks, climbs, lifts, squats, crawls, kneels, pushes, pulls and reaches overhead on a routine and repetitive basis.
- Possess good vision (may be corrected vision), the ability to see in color, and the ability to hear and communicate in English.
- May use a standard ladder without exceeding the weight limit while carrying tools.
- Tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
- Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (including finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- See details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
BENEFITS
We offer an excellent benefits package including:
- A competitive salary
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
- Paid-time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Military Reserve pay offset
- Paid maternity leave
COMPENSATION
Pay Range: USD $49.00 - USD $53.00 /Hr.
INTRODUCTION
About M.C. Dean
M.C. Dean is Building Intelligence. We design, build, operate, and maintain cyber-physical solutions for the nation’s most mission-critical facilities, secure environments, complex infrastructure, and global enterprises. With over 9,000 employees, our capabilities span electrical, electronic security, telecommunications, life safety, automation and controls, audiovisual, and IT systems. Headquarters in Tysons, Virginia, M.C. Dean delivers resilient, secure, and innovative power and technology solutions through engineering expertise and smart systems integration.
Why Join Us?
Our people are passionate about engineering innovation that improves lives and drives impactful change. Guided by our core values—agility, expertise, and trust—we foster a collaborative and forward-thinking work environment. At M.C. Dean, we are committed to building the next generation of technical leaders in electrical, engineering, and cybersecurity industries.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Electrical Foreman 1 is responsible for supervising and coordinating the work of a crew of electricians, apprentices and laborers on a job site as well as ensuring that all work installed is completed on time, on budget and according to all applicable plans, specifications, codes and industry standards.
Responsibilities
- Productivity Planning for assigned scope of work
- Material Phasing – Organize Material by specific areas/floors. (keep track of materials inventories).
- Tools & Equipment - Identify all tools and equipment required to support each crew (Gang box Assignments, tool inspection and keep track of tools by signing sheet in-out).
- Information Packages – Each crew activity must have information packages (contract drawings, shop drawings, panel schedules, cut sheets, etc…).
- Keep control of breaks (loss time of personal breaks smoking time, conversation time).
- Daily hour/unit reports for their crews – Submit hours/units daily for each employee assigned to Foreman on established from (Standard Time Sheet).
- Quality control inspections of work completed – Must follow established QC plan & check lists.
- Responsible for installing the work in a professional manner and high-quality standard.
- Maintaining accurate as built drawings – As-built drawings are to be updated and logged onto master record contract drawings a minimum of once a week.
- Inventory of all tools & equipment at the day’s end for assigned tools & equipment. (Everything must be accountable & secure) inventory/inspection sheets to be turned in every Monday.
- Lost/Stolen/Damage tool report.
- AHA’s – All AHA’s related to Foreman’s scope of work must be reviewed, signed by each crew member and stored at their gang box in the field.
- Support Equipment Inspection – Foreman must submit daily equipment inspection sheets for all equipment assigned to Foreman once a week.
- Accident/Incident Reporting & Investigation – Must follow the established procedures for responding and reporting accident and incidents. All reports must be submitted within 24 hours of accident/incident.
- Clean Up – Foreman and Crew leader are responsible for all clean up related to their scope of work. All work areas are to be left in a broom swept condition at the end of the day.
Job Duties:
- Managing mid-sized to large projects of 15 or more persons.
- Conferring with senior management, supervisory personnel, owners, contractors and design professionals to discuss and resolve matters such as work procedures, complaints and construction problems.
- Scheduling the project in logical steps in order to budget enough time required to meet deadlines.
- Determining labor requirements and dispatching workers to construction sites.
- Planning, organizing and directing activities concerned with the construction and maintenance of structures, facilities and systems.
- Interpreting and explaining plans and contract terms to administrative staff, workers and clients.
- Preparing contracts and negotiating revisions, changes and additions to contractual agreements with architects, consultants, clients, suppliers and subcontractors.
- Directing and supervising workers including delegating responsibilities to foremen and electrical technicians and mentoring electrical technicians II and III in order to prepare them for promotion to the next career level.
- Monitoring project budgets in order to ensure positive cash flow and to maintain profitability.
- Inspecting and reviewing projects to monitor compliance with building and safety codes and other regulations.
Quality of work completed must follow:
- Ensure installation meets/exceeds codes, contractual obligations, best practices and other requirements as mandated by the Corporate Quality Policy.
- Ensure all facets of Project Quality Plan are reviewed and implemented. Any deviations are properly documented and communicated to site Q.C. representative for approval prior to proceeding any further.
- Participate and assist the Site Q.C. representative in the implementation of 3-Phase Quality Control, which includes Preparatory, Initial & Follow-up for each Definable Feature of Work (DFOW) under the crew leader’s responsibility.
- Properly document and return the CQC checklists to Site Q.C. representative ensuring installation inspections are done timely and facilitate the adherence to QAQC schedule.
- Initiate Various Discrepancy Notices (EDN, DDN, PDN, FDN, ADN, PITDN, CDN) in order to ensure issues arising during construction are properly documented and communicated for resolution.
- Review and provide feedback on weekly installation quality scorecards as generated by QAQC service center to ensure systemic issues are addressed through formal root cause, corrective and preventive action.
- Review ongoing quality issues identified in the daily Q.C. report with the crew to ensure mitigation/elimination of the nonconformities.
- Ensure nonconformity tags identified on discrepant installation by site Q.C. representative is timely resolved.
- Participate in QAQC Design Review of Engineering & Coordination drawings to identify constructability issues.
- Participate and provide feedback on Quality portion of the daily ORM work briefing.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Requirements
- At least 6 years of experience working in the electrical industry, including 2 years serving as a project foreman.
- High School diploma or GED.
- Possess a Journeyman Electrician license, preferred.
- Experience working with the Company’s management systems such as scheduling, job cost reports, estimating, safety documentation and quality control.
- Experience overseeing and approving monthly job cost updates and quarterly cash flow projections.
- Effectively plans manpower and has leadership skills to meet project objectives without significant labor spikes or overtime costs.
- Communicates effectively both verbally and in writing.
- Ability to work without direct supervision.
- Must have their own tools.
- This position may require ongoing or intermittent use of a company vehicle. Selected candidates must possess an acceptable driving record in accordance to our policy.
- Must successfully pass a background check.
Abilities:
- The position requires the ability to lift, carry, and move objects weighing up to [50 pounds] on a regular basis. Candidates must demonstrate physical strength and stamina to perform various tasks, including but not limited to, loading, and unloading, operating equipment, and assisting in the transportation of various materials. Proper lifting techniques and safety protocols must be followed to ensure personal and team safety.
- Relocates a 12-foot stepladder without assistance.
- Works at various heights up to 60 feet and can climb and maintain balance on scaffolds, aerial lifts, catwalks and all types of ladders.
- Walks, climbs, lifts, squats, crawls, kneels, pushes, pulls and reaches overhead on a routine and repetitive basis.
- Possess good vision (may be corrected vision), the ability to see in color, and the ability to hear and communicate in English.
- May use a standard ladder without exceeding the weight limit while carrying tools.
- Tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
- Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (including finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- See details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
BENEFITS
We offer an excellent benefits package including:
- A competitive salary
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
- Paid-time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Military Reserve pay offset
- Paid maternity leave
COMPENSATION
Pay Range: USD $49.00 - USD $53.00 /Hr.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship in Electrical Foreman
Verify your SOC code before applying
Electrical Foreman positions are filed under SOC 47-1011. Pull the O*NET profile for that code and confirm your resume reflects the supervisory, planning, and compliance duties listed there. Mismatches between your experience and the SOC description are a common RFE trigger.
Check prevailing wage tiers by metro area
Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up Level I through Level IV wages for SOC 47-1011 in every metro you're targeting. Employers certify a wage tier on the LCA, and your offered rate must meet or exceed it for that specific worksite location.
Find sponsors through Migrate Mate by role
Search Migrate Mate for Electrical Foreman roles to see which employers have verified H-1B LCA filing history for this position. That filing history signals the employer already understands the sponsorship process and has cleared the LCA step before.
Confirm each worksite gets its own LCA
If your Electrical Foreman role involves multiple jobsites, each location requires a separately certified LCA before you can work there. Ask prospective employers during the offer stage how they handle multi-site LCA filings to avoid authorization gaps.
Get your credentials evaluated before the I-129
If your electrical engineering or construction management degree is from outside the U.S., obtain a NACES-member credential evaluation before your employer files the I-129. USCIS scrutinizes foreign degree equivalency heavily for trade-adjacent specialty occupation roles.
Time your offer around H-1B cap selection changes
The H-1B cap selection rules have changed recently, so don't assume the timeline you read about two years ago still applies. Work with your employer to confirm the current registration window directly with USCIS before committing to a start date.
H-1B Visa Electrical Foreman: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an Electrical Foreman role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Not automatically. The H-1B specialty occupation standard requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field as a normal minimum for the position. Employers who want to sponsor an Electrical Foreman must structure the role around degree-level duties in electrical engineering or construction management and document that requirement in the LCA and I-129 petition. Roles framed around trade skills alone will not qualify.
What LCA requirements apply when an Electrical Foreman works across multiple jobsites?
Each worksite location needs its own certified LCA filed with DOL before work begins at that location. A single LCA covering only one address does not authorize work at other sites. Employers in construction and utilities often handle this through short-term or itinerant worker provisions, but you should confirm how your specific employer manages multi-site compliance before accepting an offer.
How long does H-1B status last for an Electrical Foreman position?
USCIS grants H-1B status in an initial period of up to three years. Your employer can file for an extension, and the total maximum is six years under standard rules. Extensions beyond six years are possible only if you have an approved immigrant visa petition or a pending labor certification that meets specific age requirements under AC21 provisions.
How can I find employers who have sponsored H-1B visas for Electrical Foreman roles?
Migrate Mate shows employers with verified H-1B LCA filing history for Electrical Foreman positions, so you can focus your search on companies that have already navigated the sponsorship process for this role. You can also cross-reference DOL OFLC disclosure data directly to see which contractors and utilities have certified LCAs under SOC 47-1011 in your target metro area.
What happens to H-1B status if an Electrical Foreman changes employers mid-project?
H-1B portability under AC21 lets you start work for a new employer as soon as they file an H-1B transfer petition, as long as you've been in valid H-1B status for at least 180 days. The new employer must file a fresh I-129 and certify a new LCA for each worksite. You can't simply carry your existing authorization to a new contractor without that filing in place.