Senior VDC Specialist - Federal

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The Senior VDC Coordinator leads the model-based coordination process for Cerris Builders federal and commercial construction projects and develops, reviews, and maintains coordinated building information models and related technical deliverables. Working across project management, field leadership, design consultants, and trade partners, this role uses construction knowledge and technical judgment to evaluate model information, identify and assess coordination conflicts, recommend practical resolutions, and keep coordination aligned with constructability, sequencing, cost, procurement, schedule, and field execution needs.

• Develop and maintain project BIM Execution Plans (BEPs), coordination requirements, model-sharing standards, and related project procedures.
• Lead BIM kickoff sessions and multi-trade coordination meetings; establish coordination zones, priorities, milestones, and deliverables aligned with the construction schedule.
• Federate architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, and specialty-trade models as applicable to the project.
• Perform and review clash detection; evaluate conflicts among building systems and facilitate resolution with design consultants, trade partners, project management, and field leadership.
• Review coordinated models from a general contractor constructability, installation, and sequencing perspective; identify constraints and recommend practical options for resolution.
• Track coordination issues, model submissions, trade-partner deliverables, and action items through resolution; maintain issue logs and supporting documentation.
• Facilitate and document completion of the coordination process before areas are released for construction, escalating unresolved or out-of-scope issues to the appropriate project leader.

• Receive, review, federate, and manage multidisciplinary 3D models provided by design consultants and trade partners using Navisworks, Revit, and other applicable BIM/VDC platforms.
• Create, develop, and modify 3D models and model elements as needed to support design coordination, clash resolution, constructability reviews, and project execution.
• Review engineering drawings, design information, project submittals, and relevant product information to help ensure model content is accurate and consistent with project requirements.
• Build and modify Revit families and produce graphical representations of specified design information in drawings and models.
• Support or oversee project model setup and quality checks to help ensure models and deliverables follow applicable company and project standards.
• Maintain document control for VDC deliverables and keep coordination models, model submissions, drawings, and supporting project information organized and current.

• Work closely with Project Managers, Superintendents, Project Engineers, design teams, trade partners, estimating/preconstruction, fabrication/shop teams, and field personnel to align and direct model-based coordination with project execution.
• Identify and evaluate coordination issues that may affect constructability, field installation, schedule, cost, procurement, or project sequencing; develop and communicate recommendations within the role’s scope of responsibility.
• Support preconstruction, estimating, design-assist, and mock-up activities with model-based information and coordination expertise as needed.
• Use construction-management platforms, cloud-based model-sharing systems, issue-tracking tools, and document-review applications to support coordination, collaboration, and project documentation.
• Review coordination milestones and outstanding work to help prioritize assignments, manage the VDC coordination schedule, and monitor project deliverables and budget-related requirements where assigned.

• Explain technical issues and coordination options clearly to project…