What are the responsibilities and job description for the VDC Engineer position at The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company?
Whiting-Turner is looking for a self-motivated, energetic, creative, technology-driven, detail-oriented, quick-thinking, innovative person to join our internal Virtual Design & Construction (VDC) team. Job Responsibilities include:
Qualified candidates should:
Qualified candidates should:
- Understand building construction, engineering, and/or architecture.
- Have on the job or class experience with BIM software programs and technology.
- Thrive in a team environment both contributing to larger projects and producing independent work.
- Have an innately curious, forward-thinking personality to push innovative ideas in all aspects of daily tasks.
- Be able to multi-task and deliver parallel successful products.
- Creating virtual simulations to validate and improve site logistics, safety concerns, building sequencing, scheduling, and VR experiences.
- Manage 3D coordination activities with operation teams from project kickoff through closeout.
- Perform preconstruction model tasks – quality verifications, schedule validations, constructability reviews, and virtual mock-up production.
- Drive research and development of new software, hardware, and technology to optimize the team’s execution and overall project quality.