Construction Project Manager - VDC

Harris; Saint Paul (MN); On-site; USD 89,000 - 133,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and life ins.

401K with company match

Vacation and holidays

Paid Parental leave

Short-Term Incentive Plan

Job summary

Harris is seeking a seasoned VDC Manager to oversee end‑to‑end delivery, from scope definition to final installation. You will own the VDC budget, schedule, and quality while coordinating with Design Studio, Operations, and Fab Shops to ensure timely, on‑budget results.

You will drive BIM Execution Plan adoption, manage resources, and align VDC deliverables with project requirements across design, construction, and fabrication phases. Strong leadership and communication are essential.

Responsibilities

• Define VDC scope and align with ops team what deliverables the VDC teams will complete
• Develop a project's VDC budget and resource plan, including estimating at the beginning of a project and weekly/monthly forecasting throughout the project lifecycle
• Recommends and directs the use of appropriate platforms to manage and collate the correct project information. Ensures use and latest information is readily available.
• Drives and manages overall delivery of VDC deliverables and is the VDC point of contact for ops teams
• Drives and owns quality of deliverables
• Drive and coordinate VDC workflow through all phases (design, construction, fabrication, and install).
• Directs VDC team members through assigning necessary priorities of deliverables.
• Liaise resources as needed to ensure sufficient team size to complete high‑quality deliverables on time and on budget.
• Leverages expertise as needed for the project such as engineering, VDC Constructability, etc..
• Ensure software/tools are available to team by coordinating with the HDS Technology team
• Notify and coordinate with HDS Operations and VC Leadership to identify and select resources that have the right skills and availability for the project
• Drive and ensure understanding of accountability of VDC Constructability Manager early in the process to ensure the correct trade and technical requirements are adopted and rolled out throughout the project templates through the necessary detailed reviews.
• Drive and ensure understanding of accountability of HDS VD & Model Management team to ensure models are set up, databases are created, and set up ACC hub per the project's requirements
• Drive and ensure understanding of accountability of HDS Preconstruction Engineer Leads, HDS Virtual Fabrication Leads, and ops teams to drive, prepare, and coordinate prefabrication
• Gather Harris construction schedules (and design schedules for Design‑Build projects) and Key Plan/Work Package groupings from ops team and develop a VDC milestone schedule to meet these needs.
• Negotiate and communicate changes to external schedules as needed to align on deliverable deadline expectations
• Frequently communicate any constraints or issues from the VDC team to the ops team. Be a leader in resolving, documenting, and communicating issues/solutions to all stakeholders.
• Prepare and document potential change orders (PCOs), change orders (COs), and requests for information (RFIs) to manage the VDC budget and in the best interest of the projects.

Job description

Job Description

This position manages the overall VDC delivery from start to end of a project. They define the scope needed based on the project needs/requirements. They develop and manage the budget, schedule and quality for the VDC delivery. They identify the major necessary tasks and align to available resources in the different groups to meet the project needs. They engage necessary teams around Harris including the Design Studio, Operations, Fab Shops to understand needs and have the work completed. They are the point of contact for internal and external parties for VDC. They work to ensure VDC deliverables are delivered on‑time, on budget and with the required quality and detail.

VDC Total Project Delivery

• Develops, owns and delivers BIM Execution Plan (Scope and execution plan)
• Drives the understanding and adoption of BIM Execution Plan for the project team
• Define VDC scope and align with ops team what deliverables the VDC teams will complete
• Develop a project's VDC budget and resource plan, including estimating at the beginning of a project and weekly/monthly forecasting throughout the project lifecycle
• Recommends and directs the use of appropriate platforms to manage and collate the correct project information. Ensures use and latest information is readily available.
• Drives and manages overall delivery of VDC deliverables and is the VDC point of contact for ops teams
• Drives and owns quality of deliverables
• Drive and coordinate VDC workflow through all phases (design, construction, fabrication, and install).
• Directs VDC team members through assigning necessary priorities of deliverables.
• Liaise resources as needed to ensure sufficient team size to complete high‑quality deliverables on time and on budget.
• Leverages expertise as needed for the project such as engineering, VDC Constructability, etc..

VDC Project Planning and Construction

• Ensure software/tools are available to team by coordinating with the HDS Technology team
• Notify and coordinate with HDS Operations and VC Leadership to identify and select resources that have the right skills and availability for the project
• Drive and ensure understanding of accountability of VDC Constructability Manager early in the process to ensure the correct trade and technical requirements are adopted and rolled out throughout the project templates through the necessary detailed reviews.
• Drive and ensure understanding of accountability of HDS VD & Model Management team to ensure models are set up, databases are created, and set up ACC hub per the project's requirements
• Drive and ensure understanding of accountability of HDS Preconstruction Engineer Leads, HDS Virtual Fabrication Leads, and ops teams to drive, prepare, and coordinate prefabrication
• Gather Harris construction schedules (and design schedules for Design‑Build projects) and Key Plan/Work Package groupings from ops team and develop a VDC milestone schedule to meet these needs.
• Negotiate and communicate changes to external schedules as needed to align on deliverable deadline expectations
• Frequently communicate any constraints or issues from the VDC team to the ops team. Be a leader in resolving, documenting, and communicating issues/solutions to all stakeholders.
• Prepare and document potential change orders (PCOs), change orders (COs), and requests for information (RFIs) to manage the VDC budget and in the best interest of the projects.

Status and Progress Reporting

• Develop and share weekly status reports to Harris ops teams to provide frequent updates on work completed, resourcing, and VDC issue tracking. This supplements minimum weekly meetings with ops team to ensure alignment on project delivery.
• Develop and issue monthly project statements for visibility to ops teams of financial status/forecasts and summary of issue resolution
• Respond to KPIs to improve processes and workflow outputs

Standards and Procedures

• Contribute to creating frameworks to successfully evolve BIM/VDC processes.
• Support estimating + forecasting labor tools and best practices for resource needs and tracking
• Support implementation of new software and tools for PM, VDC and BIM, etc.

Other Duties + Miscellaneous

• Self check all work.
• Contributes to the desired safety and work culture of the organization.
• Supervise less experience team members
• Other tasks and duties as assigned

Your life at Harris

As one of the country's leading mechanical contractors, Harris offers you the best of both worlds: the stability, resources and opportunities of a national company, and the team culture, creative spirit and customer loyalty of a local business. If you thrive on variety and new challenges, we want to meet you! From stadiums to manufacturing facilities, power plants to hospitals, concert halls to classrooms, we handle projects of all sizes and complexity from multiple regional locations across the country.

Harris Benefits + Compensation

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401K with company match
• Vacation time, sick time, and paid holidays
• Paid Parental leave
• Short-Term Incentive Plan

Visit our Careers Page for additional benefit details: https://www.harriscompany.com/careers/employee-benefits-at-a-glance

Pay Range

$88,848.52 - $133,272.77

The actual salary offer will vary by candidate based on a wide range of factors such as specific skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

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