VDC - Project Specialist

Job Posting:

Ferguson is North America’s leading value-added distributor across residential, non-residential, new construction and repair, maintenance, and improvement (RMI) end markets. Spanning 34,000 suppliers and more than one million customers, we deliver local expertise, value-added solutions, and the industry’s most extensive portfolio of products. From infrastructure, plumbing, and appliances, to HVAC, fire protection, fabrication, and more, we make our customers’ complex projects simple, successful, and sustainable.

Ferguson is currently seeking qualified candidates for the Virtual Design Construction (VDC) Project Specialist position. The VDC Project Specialist is responsible for facilitating the execution of our VDC projects. The role’s primary focus is coordinating and communicating with internal and external stakeholders, managing the priorities specific to projects, ensuring that schedules are being tracked, and distributing the deliverables for the project to the external stakeholders.

This is a remote role in accordance with Ferguson’s Remote Work Schedule. 

Qualifications:

Required:

• Degree from accredited college/university focusing on Engineering, Architecture, or Construction Management.
• Minimum of 4 years VDC experience, including at least 2 years planning/managing the overall VDC scope of work for projects in Healthcare, Education, Industrial, Municipal, or Multi-use.
• Displays solid VDC/BIM acumen.
• Experience leading VDC and BIM projects
• Proficient in utilizing and instruction on the application of BIM and VDC Coordination processes and workflows at an advanced level.
• Ability to create and manage BIM schedules.
• Self-motivated and efficient at working both independently and collaboratively within a team.
• Detail-oriented and able to efficiently manage multiple tasks simultaneously without direct supervision.
• Strong problem-solving, mathematical and written/verbal communication skills.
• Detailed knowledge of current construction delivery methods, practices, and documentation.
• Ability to actively listen, mentally visualize and then produce detailed 2D, 3D, 4D or 5D deliverables for use by internal and external clients.
• Acute knowledge of Navisworks coordination principles.
   

Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Consistent communication with our clients throughout the lifecycle of the projects.
• Collaborate with project teams to establish the objectives for the project.
• Conduct internal and external meetings to ensure all parties are in unison on project specifics.
• Track and manage project schedules using software tools and templates provided under department SOPs.
• Balance the direction of the project as distributed by the external stakeholders while ensuring that we are capable of the direction internally.
• Maintain Navisworks coordination models to offer the modelers the information they need for their project coordination.
• Track and request critical project related info and distribute to the project team (RFIs, Submittals, CCD/Revisions).
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