VDC Manager

FLINT; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

FLINT is seeking a VDC Manager in San Francisco, California, responsible for owning and managing digital BIM throughout projects. The role requires a minimum of 5-10 years in architecture or design management, emphasizing strong BIM coordination and tools like Revit and Revizto.

The ideal candidate will lead the BIM process, ensuring quality design management across education, healthcare, and civic markets, and maintaining relationships that enhance FLINT's reputation.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years minimum of experience in architecture, engineering, or design management.
• Proficient in digital coordination tools and navigating DSA projects.
• Strong understanding of design-build or lease-leaseback projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead BIM coordination from project start to finish.
• Assist with consultant selection focusing on BIM experience.
• Ensure proper structure of BIM for manufacturing and field deployment.

Skills

BIM coordination

Revit

Digital clash detection

Design management

Tools

Revizto

BIM360/ACC

Job description

• A VDC Manager whose primary objective is owning and managing the digital BIM from project start to finish.
• An established member of the design & construction industry, capable of leading large-scale construction projects in education, healthcare and civic markets.
• 5-10 years minimum of experience in architecture, engineering, or design management–preferably on design-build or lease-leaseback projects.
• A candidate that is efficient at using Revit, and digital coordination tools such as Revizto and BIM360/ACC.
• A candidate with strong experience navigating DSA projects, including approval cycles and documentation standards.

Job Requirements, Qualifications, Characteristics:

• Lead the BIM coordination effort from pursuit through approval phase, and participate in interviews and pursuits to communicate our process to owners.
• Assist architects and design teams (internal & external) with consultant selection, focusing on consultants with strong BIM experience, and ensure design deliverables are aligned with their scope of work, FLINT standards, and our fabrication and installation processes.
• Ensure BIM is structured correctly for coordination, estimating, manufacturing, and field deployment.
• Coordinate with Precon, PX, Supers, VDC Engineers, and Modelers.
• Run digital clash detections utilizing Revizto and coordinate changes to the BIM with the design and construction teams.
• Review and manage design deliverables from external teams, validate that consultant deliverables incorporate input from logistics, framing, utilities, etc.
• Be the “quarterback” of the design process from kickoff through coordination submittals.

Grow institutional knowledge and relationships with design firms, and elevate FLINT’s reputation with districts and DSA through consistent, high-quality design management.