What are the responsibilities and job description for the Construction Field Technology Manager position at Flintco?
Founded in 1908, Flintco now employs more than 750 people in 10 cities serving clients in healthcare, education, hospitality, sports and industrial. Flintco also self-performs concrete, steel erection and excavation. Nothing matters more to us than the quality and growth of our people. Our teams are smart, humble and disciplined. Flintco is recognized for its commitment to safety and quality, using Lean principles as a guide to continuous improvement. The five guiding principles of our Ethos are: Safety, Integrity, Quality, Accountability and Honesty. We live it every day.
The Construction Field Technology Manager oversees department resources to setup, train, and execute technologies across projects ensuring SOPs and expected deliverables are met.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Works in a consultative fashion with other departments and project team leadership as an advisor of technologies that may improve their safety, quality, efficiency and effectiveness
• Develop relationships with field personnel across offices and project teams to promote the effective use of construction technology services
• Setup and manage the deployment of field technology on projects across the enterprise
• Manage team of Field Technology Engineers and other department resources to ensure completion of services and deliverables
• Provide project specific training to internal and external team members
• Track existing technology investments for changes and improvements, including testing and implementation of updates
• Engage with project executives, project managers & other team members to establish a budget and plan of execution on projects
• Play a key role in the development and adoption of construction field technology resources
• Apply technical knowledge to identify areas of improvement in the construction process
• Evaluate and make recommendations on new and emerging technologies
• Assist with planning, scheduling, and implementing of new technologies for the company
• Work collaboratively or independent, depending on the needs of the position
• Ability to travel 25%-30% of the time
Management Responsibilities
May manage direct reports.
Knowledge/Skills/Ability
• Minimum five years of construction management related experience
• Proven leadership experience and expertise within construction technology and innovation.
• Demonstrated ability to cultivate and maintain diverse strategic alliances with technology entities, businesses, and the community
• Strong team building, interpersonal and communications skills necessary to lead in a complex organizational structure
• Understanding of day-to-day field operations on a construction site including typical workflows: construction document control, submittals, RFIs, issue management, punch list, safety, scheduling, change orders, cost management
• Clearly present information effectively to others in a group or individual setting
• Experience with construction management related applications such as Bluebeam, Procore, or other similar software systems
• Experience with VDC technologies such as Revit, AutoCAD, Navisworks, and other similar software systems.
• Proficiency with some of the following: UAV, 360 photography, 3D modelling, data analysis, LiDAR scanning, virtual reality, and facility management.
Education
Degree in Construction-related field of study, or related professional experience
Experience
Minimum 5 years relevant construction experience; experience in construction layout or an equivalent combination of education and experience; construction layout, Construction management applications such as Bluebeam, Procore or similar systems; VDC technology such as Revit, AutoCAD or similar software; Past reality capture a plus
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
OSHA 10 hour or 30 hour preferred; FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot license is a plus.
Physical Requirements
• Physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Occasionally, especially when managing multiple projects and during problematic opening and/or closing phases of projects, mental stress can be taxing.
• May be required to work long hours for extended periods of time.
• Ability to stand and work while standing for the majority of the day in a construction environment
• Travel up to 25-30% of the time to various construction sites; plan and execute multiple projects daily
• Ability to work flexible hours due to project or site constraints, including occasional early, late or weekend hours
Special Job Dimensions
The office provides a safe and healthy work environment, is adequately heated and cooled, is free from exposure and extreme conditions, has appropriate lighting and office furnishings, and is smoke-free and drug-free. While performing the duties of this position in the fabrication shop, warehouse, maintenance shop or at a project site, the employee could be regularly exposed to any number of the following, including, but not limited to: moving mechanical parts; moving machinery; high, precarious places (including, but not limited to, being raised several hundred feet in a bucket); close tight quarters; rough and sloped terrain; fumes or airborne particles; drilling and blasting activities; welding activities; toxic or caustic chemicals; the potential of falling rock; and outside weather conditions. The employee may be occasionally exposed to risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is generally loud.
* NOTE – Where allowed employees who work in positions classified as “safety-sensitive” can be disciplined if they test positive for marijuana or its metabolites, even if they have a valid state medical marijuana license. In addition, Flintco may also refuse to hire applicants for safety-sensitive jobs who test positive for marijuana as part of a pre-employment drug test, even if those applicants can produce a valid medical marijuana patient license.
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