Assistant VDC Manager

Swinerton•Austin, TX

About The Position

This role assists in developing and managing VDC modeling procedures, provides leadership for VDC Modeling Engineer personnel, and supports management in VDC development and coordination responsibilities. The position involves performing essential Senior VDC Engineer responsibilities, assisting with hiring, development, and supervision of VDC team members, and supporting pursuit reviews with realistic renderings, graphics, and animations. The role also oversees VDC tasks and resources, utilizes tools for site surveying and layout, sets up background models, manages cloud-based workspaces, and employs reality capture techniques. Key responsibilities include maintaining BIM models, producing models for quantity take-off, generating architectural models, incorporating gap models, developing model setups for as-builts and facility operations, providing VDC schedule input, conducting constructability reviews, resolving coordination clashes, developing modeling deliverables for self-perform disciplines, and generating fabrication files. Additionally, the role involves setting up and running meetings, training project teams, supporting work orders and contracts, and building relationships with project teams, craft, clients, and design partners. Specific to Timberlab, the role performs DC Engineer responsibilities, facilitates feedback loops, performs 2D/3D detailing for non-timber elements impacting mass timber, tracks deliverables, develops resource-loaded schedules, provides training to external trades, reviews DC content conformance, and develops PSA contracts for external DC services.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or certification in relevant field.
Minimum of 5 years of design, engineering, or construction experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Extensive knowledge of industry standard BIM software application; Revit experience expected.
Proficient ability to read and understand plans and specifications.
In-depth understanding of commercial construction means and methods.
Effective written and verbal communication skills
Takes initiatives and can manage multiple assignments simultaneously.
Displays critical thinking ability with effective problem-solving skills.
Individual is relationship driven and fosters collaboration.
Ability to travel to support company VDC needs.

Responsibilities

Able to perform essential Senior VDC Engineer responsibilities and duties.
Assist with the hiring process, development, and supervising of VDC team members.
Assist with pursuit reviews and project information to develop content, produce industry leading realistic renderings, graphics, animations, or other visuals to support pursuits and interviews.
Assist with overseeing all VDC related tasks and resources to support projects & pursuits.
Utilize tools and software for site surveying and layout.
Setup background models to ensure efficient project setup, utilize real world coordinates and project coordinates to support effective coordination, surveying, and layout.
Set up and oversee cloud based collaborative workspaces.
Utilize reality capture techniques and technologies to support project teams with producing useful deliverables to solve challenges.
Utilize existing conditions capture technology data to compare existing conditions to design intent, identify discrepancies, and convert them into accurate models.
Maintain and communicate approved design changes within Building Information Modeling [BIM] to ensure proper coordination throughout construction.
Produce models to support quantity take-off for any needed trade.
Generate accurate background Architectural models and elements.
Incorporate various gap models to support the design intent and proper coordination.
Develop proper model setup to deliver as-builts, facility operations, maintenance requirements, and provide close out deliverables.
Provide VDC specific schedule input to support coordination, ensuring milestones are met.
Conduct VDC-related constructability reviews and manage resolution of design conflicts with design and trade partners.
Ensure resolution of coordination clashes to support efficient coordination.
Develop modeling and detailing deliverables for at least one self-perform discipline.
Conduct export layout, spooling, or other fabrication files based on required or standard templates.
Setup and run efficient meetings; train project teams to run project coordination meetings.
Support with writing, reviewing, and training operations on coordination work orders, scopes of work, and executing contracts, including consultant agreements.
Build working relationships to effectively collaborate with project teams, craft, self-perform, clients, design partners to execute projects successfully.
Complete other responsibilities as assigned.
Perform all DC Engineer responsibilities
Facilitate constructive feedback loops to improve departmental processes (DC, fabrication, scheduling, estimating, etc.)
Perform 2D and 3D detailing services for non-timber elements/systems that directly impact glulam or CLT – MEPF cores, misc. structural steel. Actively track deliverables from other trades that aid in this 2D/3D work
Develop intricate resource-loaded schedules to show progress of trade deliverables and identify constraints that may impact manufacturing or fabrication of wood elements
Provide training and technical support for external trades (and/or internal/external GC partners) – to aid in impactful coordination with mass timber elements and maximizes off sight construction and fabrication
Review overall conformance of early DC content with contract plans (spec, work-points, Timberlab Inc standards, etc.)
Development and setup of PSA contract for external DC services