James Smith

• General Foreman January 2025-current
• Supervised daily operations to ensure compliance with safety standards and project timelines.
• Coordinated scheduling and workflow for electrical installations across multiple job sites.
• Trained new team members on safety protocols, tools usage, and operational procedures.
• Assisted in the management of materials inventory to optimize resource allocation.
• River Song Solar

General foreman supervising a 14-man crew during the installation of a 10 MW AC 80 acre solar farm.

• Ascend Performance Materials

Emergency 15Kv Outage where a transformer blew up. Where i assisted with armored cable pull, Heat shrink stress cones, breaker changeout, and testing.

• TVA Wilson barge wall

Installation of auxiliary systems ,conduits, light poles,receptacles ,disconnects in a safe and time efficient matter.

• Foreman July 2023-January 2025
• First Solar plant Trinity

Oversaw and assisted crews in installing a 15Kv duct bank, vaults, grounding systems.

Oversaw and assisted a 16-man crew installing UPS back up systems,480v distribution panels, transformers, disconnects, lighting systems and controls ,set primary and secondary electrical gear, etc for a 150,000SQ-FT office.

• Florence parking deck

Oversaw and assisted a crew installing main feeds, DP panels, secondary panels, sight lighting, fire alarm, EV chargers, site communications and data

• Marley Flexco

Installation of data drops, IDF racks, wireless access points.

• Various site locations/Service Calls

Troubleshooting motors, motor control systems, PLCS, various electrical systems and equipment, Primary and secondary transformers, air conditioners

• Apprentice Wiremen July 2019-July 2023
• Toyota Motors Manufacturing

15KV wire pulls/terminations, cable tray,600v cable pulls/terminations, bus ducts, site lighting, set electrical gear, transformers, primary and secondary gear, site grounding, fire alarm system, inverter/battery bank for emergency lighting, duct banks.

• Mazda Toyota manufacturing

Installed Grounding, lighting, Andon system, RP panel/transforms, instrumentation, motors, duct banks.

• Counce Paper Mill

Emergency 15 kv feeder outage, instrumentation, wiring, raceway’s, transformer change out, mcc upgrade, maintenance support breaker pm, motors, control cabinet change out,data,

• BASF

Instrumentation, maintenance support, switch yard, fiber, duct banks, raceways, wiring, heat trace, cooling tower refeed.

Transformer changeout, buss work,PLC and motor controls

• University of North Alabama

LED lighting retrofit project.

• Ascend Performance Materials.

15kv cable refeed project, heat shrink stress cones, terminations.