VDC Specialist; Spooler

VDC (BIM) Spooler

Headquartered in Conyers, Georgia, Batchelor & Kimball (B&K) takes pride in partnering with our clients to deliver excellent results from engineering and construction to operations and maintenance. We offer design/build and turnkey construction services, including teaming with selected subcontractors for electrical and general construction. If you are looking to grow your career and thrive in a team environment, then we invite you to apply for this position.

There's not a lot of BS here, and not a lot of turnover. Good people work at Batchelor & Kimball. We're good at our jobs, and good to each other. We have high expectations because the work is challenging, but we know the most valuable thing about the work is the people who do it. If this sounds like a good fit for you, we'd like to meet you!

The VDC (BIM) Spooler position will work with VDC Specialists, utilizing BIM fabrication modelling software, to create fabrication level drawings for the manufacturing group. The Spooler will work with the Building Information Model (BIM) breaking the Mechanical & Plumbing systems into manageable spools (fabrication drawings) for the manufacturing facility to fabricate from.

Essential duties and responsibilities include:

• Work with VDC Specialists on the creation of detailed fabrication and installation drawings for Mechanical and Plumbing systems
• Create fabrication spool drawings for the prefabrication of pipe systems
• Create fabrication spool drawing map to identify installation location of prefabricated pipe spools
• Annotation of fabrication spool map drawings
• Annotation of fabrication and installation shop drawings
• Creation of bill of materials
• Creation of pipe cut lists
• Creation of pipe identification labels
• Work with other team members to complete models and drawings as required
• Assist fabrication shop with kitting and carting for efficient job site delivery
• Perform QA/QC review of work personally produced prior to issue to other teams
• Assist in QA/QC review of work produced by other spoolers within the team

Communicate with VDC Specialists to ensure that fabrication intent is clearly communicated on fabrication spool drawings

Maintain training and continued education for incumbent and team to continually improve accuracy and productivity

Provide input to management regarding both hardware and software requirements to perform duties

Supervisory/budgetary/external communications responsibility

This an individual contribution role. The incumbent will be responsible for communicating with internal employees as well as third party companies and the IT team at EMCOR.

Knowledge, skill and ability requirements (minimum competencies required for job performance) include:

Ability to read, comprehend, and interpret technical literature/writing and plans

Ability to define problems, assess options and make appropriate recommendations

Ability to distinguish between shades of color

Competence in public speaking/presentations

Self-driven desire to learn, become competent, and succeed in field

Good verbal and written communication skills with ability to train and mentor

Good self-management and organizational skills

Professional demeanor

Good analytical skills and ability to generate creative solutions

Ability to perform well and meet expectations in a fast-paced environment

Good interpersonal skills

Ability to coordinate project activities and monitor progress to successfully reach project goals

Ability and willingness to demonstrate ethical behavior and a high level of integrity

Ability to balance team and individual responsibilities

Ability manage stress and job demands

Ability to cooperatively work with others

Prior work experience and educational requirements include:

Knowledge of experience with installation of mechanical or plumbing systems

Knowledge of Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD, Autodesk Fabrication CADMEP, Autodesk Navisworks or any other BIM software is a plus

A working familiarity and proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite products including Excel, Word, and Outlook and ability to be trained in use of the Company-specific applications and software

Physical demands are those associated with working in a typical office environment and miscellaneous field travel