Virtual Design & Construction Operations Manager

About the role

At Baker Electric we are energized by truly living our values - Team Builders, Relentless Follow Through, All-In, and Care for Others. When our team members work together with these things in mind, we do great things both individually and as an organization. Being an employee-owned company shows our drive for sustainable, long-term growth while enhancing the lives of our team members. SUMMARY: The Virtual Design & Construction (VDC) Operations Manager leads the people, processes, and project delivery that turn design and model information into coordinated, constructible, and field-ready electrical work. Partnering closely with project management, field operations, prefabrication, and procurement, this role manages VDC resources and workload and is accountable for team performance, project delivery, quality, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop VDC team members; set clear expectations, hold the team accountable for performance, and support training, succession, and career growth.
• Plan staffing and workload across current and upcoming projects, identifying hiring, training, or reassignment needs early.
• Facilitate VDC project kickoffs to confirm contract and BIM requirements, deliverables, responsibilities, milestones, and escalation paths.
• Own VDC project delivery from startup through closeout, managing scope, hours, budget, schedule, forecasts, and recovery plans.
• Evaluate scope changes for VDC, labor, prefabrication, schedule, and commercial impact, and report portfolio performance, risks, and needed decisions to leadership.
• Oversee model development, coordination, clash management, constructability reviews, and issue tracking using current contract documents, approved submittals, and Baker Electric standards.
• Provide technical direction on complex coordination and installation issues, documenting assumptions, design gaps, and unresolved conflicts.
• Route engineering, code, and contractual decisions to the appropriate responsible party.
• Coordinate with project management, prefabrication, procurement, and field leadership to align VDC deliverables with material needs, fabrication capacity, and delivery timing.
• Ensure work packages clearly define scope, quantities, fabrication details, sequence, and installation intent; use prefab and field feedback to drive corrective action and improve standards.
• Support field execution through look-ahead planning, sequencing, layout, logistics, constraint removal, and timely resolution of field issues.
• Ens