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)