Layout Manager

Robins & Morton; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Robins & Morton in Orlando seeks a Layout Manager to oversee the complete and accurate layout of building components across projects. The role provides technical guidance, resolves field-level layout issues, and maintains up-to-date documentation while supporting layout standards.

You will develop project-specific layout plans, conduct training, and coordinate between the VDC team and project teams to ensure a seamless workflow.

Qualifications

• Ability to read, analyzes, and interpret contract documents.
• Minimum ten years of construction engineering/layout experience.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to write routine reports.
• OSHA 30 Hour certification preferred; must obtain within first year if not current.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement project-specific layout plans with the Project Superintendent.
• Develop, manage, and conduct all layout training.
• Coordinate between VDC and Project Team to ensure a complete process.
• Ensure layout control points and drawings are updated with design changes.
• Maintain coordination with subcontractors on layout plans.

Skills

Layout planning

VDC coordination

Surveying techniques

Reading plans & specs

OSHA 30 (preferred)

Education

Two-year technical degree

Tools

Survey equipment

Total Station

VDC software

Job description

Job Description

The desire to pursue a career in construction may have been planted in your heart early, passed down from generations or seeded by an early fascination with the building process. There may have been the realization that construction aligns with your skills and interests. Or maybe it happened later, when you saw an opportunity to take your career in a new direction.

The desire to pursue a career in construction may have been planted in your heart early, passed down from generations or seeded by an early fascination with the building process. There may have been the realization that construction aligns with your skills and interests. Or maybe it happened later, when you saw an opportunity to take your career in a new direction.

You want to be part of a team that shares this passion and sense of purpose—a team that works collaboratively, respecting and listening to each other and treating each other like family. You want opportunities to grow, and you care about work-life balance. You want to know that the company you work for is ethical and responsible.

We know you can work for any company, but if you want a career with a company that’s been named a Best Place to Work , is Building With Purpose®, cares about others, and allows you to be true to yourself, your calling, your passion and your values—come build something great with us. Be a True Builder®.

The Layout Manager is primarily responsible for overseeing the complete and accurate layout of all building components for all project sites. This role provides technical guidance, resolves field-level layout challenges, and maintains up-to-date documentation while overseeing training, technology, and standards that support layout excellence across all projects.

YOUR DAY-TO-DAY:

(Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.)

• Develop and implement, in conjunction with the Project Superintendent, a project specific layout plan for all projects.
• Develop, manage, and conduct all training for layout exercises with travel as required.
• Develop uniform layout processes to include software and equipment used. Facilitate coordination between VDC team and Project Team to assure a complete process.
• Assist in providing technical engineering information and interpretation of plans, detail sheets and specifications.
• Ensure that all building control points are established with project team.
• Ensure Layout Engineers and project teams have information, technology and training necessary to produce needed layout.
• Identify and flag dimensional and/or diagrammatical conflicts in the structural, architectural, mechanical/electrical drawings and specifications.
• Coordinate inspections with consultants and authorities as required by the contract or otherwise as needed.
• Ensure systems are in place to continually update drawings with changes as issued by the design team.
• Contribute to the management of job activities, as related to layout, in accordance with Robins & Morton’s policies and procedures and within the bounds of the project contract.
• Ensure subcontractors’ layout plans are coordinated with R&M’s plan.
• Maintain a working relationship with the project subcontractors.

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TEAM:

(Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.)

• Two year education beyond high school or equivalent combination of technical training and related experience.
• Minimum of ten years construction engineering and layout experience or related construction experience and/or training.
• Ability to read, analyzes, and interpret contract documents, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of clients, subcontractors, and/or employees of the organization.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as dimensions distances, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
• OSHA 30 Hour certification preferred. If not current, to receive within the first year of employment and keep current.
• Full working knowledge of surveying techniques, equipment standards and procedures is necessary.
• Demonstrates strong working knowledge of VDC, including how layout integrates with digital construction workflows.

Robins & Morton is a privately held construction firm based in Birmingham, Alabama, with offices in Charlotte, Dallas, Huntsville, Miami-Fort Lauderdale, Nashville, Orlando, San Antonio, Tampa and Raleigh-Durham. The firm specializes in the construction of healthcare, hospitality, higher education, entertainment, sports and government buildings. Since 1946, the firm has built a reputation as a trusted advisor to clients nationwide by cultivating a high-performing team that values integrity, safety, and innovative thinking. Robins & Morton is consistently ranked as one of the top 100 contractors in the United States, and one of the top 15 in the Southeast.