VDC Manager

About the role

The VDC Manager is responsible for connecting design, coordination, and construction execution, leveraging real-world project experience to enhance the design and preconstruction process.

Responsibilities

• Support multidisciplinary design reviews across all project phases, focusing on constructability, system interactions, coordination risks, and spatial feasibility.
• Guide the team on identifying potential issues and challenges before they become problems, recognizing patterns and common coordination failures based on past projects.
• Oversee issues and risks identified throughout the design lifecycle, moving beyond simple item tracking to understanding their real impact on construction, cost, schedule, and execution.
• Participate in technical conversations with designers, project teams, and key stakeholders, using a practical construction perspective to inform design decisions.
• Lead or support multidisciplinary design and constructability reviews, ensuring alignment between design intent and construction reality.
• Work closely with the BIM Project Manager to ensure design decisions are grounded in practical, buildable solutions, complementing the BIM PM's technical depth.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in construction, preconstruction, VDC, BIM coordination, design management, or related project delivery roles.
• Proven experience working on real projects alongside or for Construction Managers, General Contractors, or field execution teams.
• Strong understanding of project delivery methods, including Design-Bid-Build and Design-Build.
• Ability to evaluate design documentation and models from a constructability, coordination, and execution perspective.
• Strong understanding of multidisciplinary coordination across architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection systems.
• Strong technical judgment and ability to prioritize issues based on their actual impact on cost, schedule, construction feasibility, and project execution.
• Experience leading or supporting multidisciplinary design and constructability reviews.
• Working knowledge of 3D coordination and visualization tools.
• Ability to guide teams on what to look for during model and design reviews without focusing only on software or production tasks.

Skills

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical issues clearly and facilitate practical discussions between design and construction teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience on complex projects with significant multidisciplinary coordination requirements.
• Prior involvement in preconstruction, design-assist, constructability reviews, or field coordination processes.
• Experience supporting issue/risk management workflows and helping teams prioritize high-impact items.
• Background in architecture, engineering, construction management, or a related technical discipline.