VDC Manager

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 VDC Manager is responsible for assisting project teams by coordinating BIM related activities on various projects. The VDC Manager will achieve successful 3D Coordination on multiple projects with overlapping timelines by being a part of a fully-integrated VDC team that strives for excellence through continuous improvement. The VDC Manager will demonstrate leadership in BIM coordination and successfully implement the most applicable construction technologies available.

The VDC Manager will reside in a city where a Flintco office is located. Austin, San Antonio, Denver, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Springdale, Memphis, or Houston. Anticipated travel less 15%.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

All duties and responsibilities include the following, however, other duties may be assigned. To perform in this position successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Leads BIM Coordination at the project level. Expected to work on projects with limited oversight.
• Creates historically accurate BIM milestones, schedules, and budgets for 3d coordination and ancillary technologies, using experience and past data from Flintco.
• Must be able to communicate with, Flintco Operations, Architects, Engineers, and
• Owner Reps professionally in a proactive manner both verbally and in writing to ensure coordination supports project level schedules.
• Manages the BIM coordination process on a project, working with subcontractors, designers and the Flintco operations team.
• Prioritizes the sequence of identifying clashes, in order of importance.
• Ensures that the plan of effective strategies of zoning systems and sequencing are being followed.
• Recognizes and addresses constructability issues during coordination and calls for adjustments to the plan in a proactive manner when needed.
• Tracks schedules and updates Flintco VDC team.
• Manages and distributes coordinated digital documents to the project team.
• Coordinates with subcontractors to assure that milestones are met and clashes are resolved.
• Engages weekly with schedules on multiple projects.
• Creates schedules using Flintco Technology project information forms.
• Proactively makes steps to correct schedules that threaten to slip.
• Communicates the new schedules to Team, for plans of correction.
• Collaborates with adjacent Flintco teams
• Coordinates work directly with other members of the VDC team
• Works with interdisciplinary teams to incorporate VDC into Quality, Lean, Safety and other adjacent Flintco teams.

Knowledge / Skills / Ability

Ability to use a process of incorporating multiple subcontractor and design models together to substantially complete coordination prior to submitting shop drawings to the design team. Able to be the source of establishing the BIM coordination objectives for each assigned construction project, as well as plan the approach needed to choose and implement the use of ancillary technologies required by operations staff. Capable of performing complex, significant project-related tasks by providing various BIM or CAD related functions to support the operations staff. Able to lead BIM coordination with groups made up of trade partners including Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Mechanical Piping, Fire Protection, Steel Fabricators, Site Utilities, Drywall, Pre-Cast Concrete, miscellaneous specialty vendors, Architects, and Engineers. Ability to read and interpret construction drawings, shop drawings and technical specifications. Ability and skill in communicating effectively, both orally and in writing, as in providing written and oral instructions to employees and in communicating with architects, clients and subcontractors. Knowledge of and application skills in geometry, trigonometry and algebra. Working knowledge of computers with fluency in Autodesk Suites, Navisworks Manage, Revit, AutoCAD, AutoCad MEP, Sketch up, Procore. Working knowledge of company standard policies and procedures.

Education

Bachelor's degree in architecture, Engineering, Construction Management or related field is desired. Other degrees or certifications will be evaluated in conjunction with relevant work experience.

Experience

Foundational Experience : 5 years' experience desired in at least one of following positions :

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

Physical Requirements

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.