Virtual Construction Manager

Virtual Construction Manager

At Royal Electric Company we provide expert electrical design, construction, and service with builders, contractors and facility owners who value relationships, trust, expertise, and a commitment to each other towards achieving exceptional results.

We sustain this through our linking values of expertise, collaboration, integrity, passion, and loyalty. These values support our core purpose; to build great relationships, one project at a time!

We have a current opening for a Virtual Construction Manager. This role can sit our of our Sacramento, CA office or Dallas, TX Office.

Success in the position is achieved through the following duties & responsibilities:

Workforce Management & Leadership:

- Coaches modelers and detailers for successful accomplishment of their Key Results, by assessing their existing skill sets, identifying areas for coaching/training and providing feedback.

- Leads by example. Maintains a positive attitude towards the work, the team, the projects, and the company.

- Promotes and exemplifies company culture and linking values.

- Coordinates and hires manpower based on workload and schedule.

- Ensure modelers and detailers understand the client’s and field operation’s needs, objectives, and challenges on projects and work for their success along with others.

Workload & Project Management:

- Works together with Project Managers and Superintendents to identify project scope for VC and develop a revised budget for the work.

- Flag and document VC scope of work changes based on field requests, client requests, design changes and communicate them to Project Mangers for updating budgeted hours.

- Develops and communicates internal VC schedule based on project build schedule and client’s VDC schedule.

- Identifies and communicates to Superintendents and Project Managers need by dates for key information and files required to produce models and drawings.

- Communicates with project team and client to eliminate any impacts to department’s productivity caused by client, field operations, design changes, etc.

- Reviews productivity goals with VC2s and Detailers and ensure Monday.com schedules align with project timelines.

- Addresses progress of the work, quality of the work, and housekeeping issues with the team.

- Tracks timelines and progress towards deliverables for reporting to project teams.

- Track billed hours by project and drawing code for cost analysis.

Constant Improvement:

- Updates historical database with final billed hours from completed projects for creation of production rates.

- Gathers, records, and implements feedback on models and drawings.

- Creates and implements standards for department work product (ie. Drawing codes, drafting conventions, etc.)

- Updates department workflows and SOPs based on latest best practices.

- Researches and shares trends in electrical fabrication design.

Relationships & Business Development:

- Schedules job walks and builds relationships between field management and department staff that promotes a collaborative approach to project planning.

- Provide feedback to Estimating with regard to client’s actual VDC requirements and revised estimated hours for the work.

- Works with Estimating and Marketing on prequalification documents.

- Represents company’s VDC expertise at project interview and potential client meet & greets.

Requirements

- 7+ Years of experience working in BIM environment

- Proficiency the latest versions of Autodesk Revit.

- Working knowledge of BIM 360, Navisworks, Trimble, Bluebeam, AutoCAD.

- Ability to create simple parametric families, understand and work with complex families, based on project needs required

- Ability to create and manipulate schedules for creating take offs, BOM’s, and cut lists.

- Ability to read and understand drawings from multiple disciplines and identify potential flaws or risks

- Ability to trouble shoot minor software issues independently

- Must be detail oriented and well organized

- Ability to effectively communicate across multi-level teams and client types

Salary Range

- $120,000/year - $150,000/year

- - This is an exempt position

Benefits

- Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)

- Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)

- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)

- Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)

- Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)

- Short Term & Long Term Disability

- Training & Development

- Free Food & Snacks

- Wellness Resources

We offer competitive wages plus benefits and 401(k).

Royal is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Royal are considered without regards to age, ancestry, color, race, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, religion, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

We utilize E-Verify to confirm work authorization with both the Social Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security. E-Verify Link: http://www.uscis.gov/e-verify/employees

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. Royal Electric is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visa at this time.

We promote a drug free workplace.