ABOUT THE ROLE
The Superintendent, HV leads high-voltage and substation field execution for a new data center build - owning day-to-day site operations for this scope in a high-stakes, mission-critical environment. Reporting to the Construction Manager and Director, Construction, this role drives schedule, coordinates trades, and enforces safety and quality from mobilization through turnover. Superintendents are the standard on a Hut 8 site: what you walk past, you approve.
Some of the key responsibilities you should expect are the following:
Substation & Switchyard Construction
Supervise construction of HV substations and switchyards: foundations and steel structures, bus work, breakers, power transformers, disconnects, grounding grids, and control enclosures. Manage major equipment receiving and setting (including oil handling and SF6 procedures) and verify installation against utility and IFC design packages.
Utility Coordination & Outages
Coordinate daily with the serving utility on interconnection scope, clearances, switching orders, and planned outages. Schedule and supervise work inside and adjacent to energized facilities under utility safety rules, hold points, and witness requirements.
Testing & Energization
Sequence and support relay testing, primary injection, doble/megger testing, and end-to-end protection testing with NETA firms and the Protection & Controls Engineer. Own energization readiness: punch completion, test record assembly, safety walkdowns, and utility witness coordination through backfeed and initial energization.
HV Safety Enforcement
Enforce HV-specific safety without exception: minimum approach distances, grounding and bonding, switching and tagging, arc-flash boundaries, and induced-voltage controls. Partner with the HSE Manager on the energization-phase safety plan.
Planning & Contractor Management
Own the HV three-week look-ahead and manage specialty subcontractors and testing firms against schedule and quality commitments. Feed accurate progress and constraints to the Planner/Scheduler - utility windows missed are often windows lost for months.
Documentation & Turnover
Maintain QC documentation, torque and termination records, test records, and as-builts to utility-acceptance standard, and support turnover of HV systems to operations with the CXQC team.
ABOUT YOU
- What we're looking for:
- 7+ years supervising high-voltage substation, switchyard, or transmission construction (69kV-345kV) with a utility contractor, EPC, or utility construction organization.
- Hands-on knowledge of substation construction practice: major equipment setting, bus fabrication, grounding grids, control wiring, and commissioning support.
- Direct experience coordinating utility outages, switching, clearances, and energization - including work in and around energized facilities under utility rules.
- Familiarity with relay and protection testing sequences (NETA, end-to-end) and utility acceptance/witness processes.
- Uncompromising HV safety leadership: switching and tagging, MAD, grounding and bonding; OSHA 30 preferred.
- Experience managing specialty HV subcontractors and NETA testing firms.
- Documentation rigor to utility-acceptance standard.
- Comfortable being the site's HV authority and training adjacent trades on HV hazards.
ABOUT THE WORK ENVIRONMENT
This role is on-site project based.
WHAT MAKES HUT 8 A GREAT PLACE TO WORK
Hut 8 offers a benefits and wellness program that includes medical, dental, vision, life, and short-term and long-term disability insurance, as well as paid time off. We are proud to invest in building the best team in the industry. At all levels of the organization, we are driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, radical transparency, and relentless growth mentality.
At Hut 8, you will have the opportunity to:
• Work with bright, driven peers from a range of educational and professional backgrounds including software development, energy, engineering, entrepreneurship, investment banking, private equity, and management consulting
• Design and pitch new products, services, and other initiatives to a leadership team consisting of serial entrepreneurs and seasoned executives and backed by a board of directors consisting of industry veterans of energy, finance, and government
• Debate ideas and alternatives in a truly meritocratic setting where the learning curve is steep and the lessons come from both senior and junior members of the team
• Build a lifelong network of friends and professional connections at the cutting-edge intersection of technology, energy, and infrastructure
