Technical Director

Bednark is seeking an experienced Technical Director to lead the flow of technical design from project planning through fabrication, logistics, and installation.

This is a cross-functional operations leadership role for someone who can manage technical resources across a fast-moving portfolio, bring install thinking into the design process, and build standards and systems that make every downstream team more effective.

A major focus of the role is maintaining momentum. The Technical Director makes sure drafting resources are aligned to the highest priorities, teams have clear deadlines and complete information, blocked work is moved quickly, and revision cycles do not quietly consume capacity needed elsewhere.

The right person combines deep technical and fabrication knowledge with strong resource management, field judgment, and the ability to influence Project Management, Production, Logistics, and Install.

This is not a role for someone who wants to personally draw or solve every detail; it is for a leader who can create clarity, set priorities, and make the entire technical process work better.

• Own the portfolio-wide resource plan for the Technical Design Office across all active projects, balancing deadlines, complexity, revision load, fabrication dates, install dates, and available drafting capacity.
• Assign drafting resources and establish clear deliverables, priorities, and time expectations so each designer knows what is due, when it is due, and when they are expected to move to the next priority.
• Maintain active visibility into what each drafter is working on, what is blocking them, and where capacity can be reallocated when information is missing or priorities change.
• Partner with Project Managers to establish deadlines for technical information, decisions, redlines, and approvals before late inputs create downstream schedule problems.
• Manage revision cycles deliberately. Push for consolidated feedback and complete decision-making rather than allowing repeated small changes to consume drafting capacity.
• Identify projects that are absorbing disproportionate technical resources or creating risk to the broader portfolio, and reset priorities or sequencing with Operations and PMO as needed.
• Protect technical quality while maintaining pace, throughput, focus, and momentum across the department.

• Ensure installation is considered during technical design, including site access, indoor versus outdoor use, breakdown and modularity, weight and size, field connections, tolerances, rigging, finish durability, crew size, equipment, and available install time.
• Challenge details that may work on paper but are unnecessarily slow, fragile, difficult, or expensive to install.
• Balance finish quality, fabrication efficiency, transportability, and field speed based on the project.
• Bring Site Superintendents into planning early enough to influence how work is detailed, broken down, packed, sequenced, and assembled.
• Lead and develop Site Superintendents as field leaders and ensure they arrive onsite with clear authority, complete information, and a realistic execution plan.
• Ensure installation packages communicate element identification, assembly sequence, hardware and fasteners, tools and equipment, critical dimensions, and project-specific field requirements.
• Ensure Technical Design provides Logistics with the element lists, quantities, dimensions, breakdown information, and other data required for trucking, packout, and site handling.
• Close the loop after installs so recurring field issues, difficult details, missing information, or inefficient assembly methods become improvements to future technical standards.

• Own and continuously improve company standards for technical drawings, documentation, tolerances, material and finish callouts, hardware, connection details, element identification, revision control, and drawing releases.
• Define what "ready for production" and "ready for install" mean and establish practical release gates that prevent incomplete work from moving downstream.
• Standardize the flow of technical information into Production, Procurement, Logistics, and Installation so teams receive the information they need in a consistent and usable format.
• Maximize CAD, modeling, and automation tools to reduce duplicate work. Use technical models and drawing data to generate takeoffs, hardware schedules, element…