Harris · 1 day ago
VDC Project Manager
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior LevelHarris is seeking a VDC Project Manager to oversee the overall VDC delivery from project initiation to completion. The role involves defining project scope, managing budgets and schedules, and coordinating with various teams to ensure timely and quality deliverables.
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Responsibilities
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
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
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
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
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
Qualification
Required
Manage the overall VDC delivery from start to end of a project
Define the scope needed based on the project needs/requirements
Develop and manage the budget, schedule and quality for the VDC delivery
Identify the major necessary tasks and align to available resources in the different groups to meet the project needs
Engage necessary teams around Harris including the Design Studio, Operations, Fab Shops to understand needs and have the work completed
Act as the point of contact for internal and external parties for VDC
Ensure VDC deliverables are delivered on-time, on budget and with the required quality and detail
Develop, own and deliver BIM Execution Plan (Scope and execution plan)
Drive 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
Recommend and direct the use of appropriate platforms to manage and collate the correct project information
Ensure use and latest information is readily available
Drive and manage overall delivery of VDC deliverables and be the VDC point of contact for ops teams
Drive and own quality of deliverables
Drive and coordinate VDC workflow through all phases (design, construction, fabrication, and install)
Direct 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
Leverage 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
Drive and ensure understanding of accountability of HDS VD & Model Management team
Drive and ensure understanding of accountability of HDS Preconstruction Engineer Leads, HDS Virtual Fabrication Leads, and ops teams
Gather Harris construction schedules and develop a VDC milestone schedule to meet these needs
Negotiate and communicate changes to external schedules as needed
Frequently communicate any constraints or issues from the VDC team to the ops team
Prepare and document potential change orders (PCOs), change orders (COs), and requests for information (RFIs)
Develop and share weekly status reports to Harris ops teams
Develop and issue monthly project statements for visibility to ops teams
Respond to KPIs to improve processes and workflow outputs
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
Self check all work
Contribute to the desired safety and work culture of the organization
Supervise less experienced team members
Perform other tasks and duties as assigned
Company
Harris
National mechanical contractor providing design+engineering, construction, building automation, service, manufacturing, conveyors and more.
Founded in 1948
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Greg Hosch
CEO
Michel Michno
CEO
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