TEECOM | We Make Technology Work in Buildings
Do you want to launch or advance a career at the intersection of technology and the built environment? Do you want to work with exceptional engineers to creatively solve complex problems? Do you want to work with clients to take their building experiences to the next level of connectivity, safety, and wow-factor? Do you want to join a company that defines the state of the art in its practice, with visionary leadership and in-house research and development?
TEECOM is a $45+ million/year consulting engineering firm with an average annual growth rate of 20% over the past 25 years. We make technology work in buildings through strategic consulting, design and engineering, project management, and enterprise support. We work hard in a fast-paced professional environment that will challenge you to learn and grow, and we play hard through team lunches and events that give back to the community. Join us and make TEECOM even better.
About the Position
As a senior-level production role, the Senior BIM Specialist I is part of the production team that supports all levels of the engineering team across multiple disciplines. This individual manages the process of virtually constructing a building and documenting the design contract from the construction documents set through record drawing submittals. It is their responsibility to manage the models, conduct BIM planning, and ensure collaboration, coordination, and accuracy on all projects. This individual serves as the go-to person on the project for modeling, documentation, and verifying design intent.
As the person responsible for QA/QC on projects, this individual must learn the fundamentals of technology systems such as telecommunications infrastructure, cabling, audiovisual, security, acoustics, and wired and wireless networks. They will therefore participate in the TEECOMuniversity in-house training program, including Bridge courses and one-on-one or group sessions. As an expert in Revit, they will participate in, create, and provide feedback on the Revit training in the TEECOM Documentation
Impact
- Represent TEECOM Values and Guiding Principles: Individual demonstrates that they CARE about clients and fellow team members, adds VALUE, and earns and builds TRUST.
- Deploy Technical Expertise: Individual has demonstrated expert skills in their trade and is able to succeed on their own as well as review, correct, and direct other technical staff to produce exemplary output (documents, etc.).
- Make Difficult Decisions: Projects are often complex, uncertain, and full of ambiguity. Individual has experience with making difficult decisions that directly impact the success of the project.
- Augment Company-Wide Communication: Individual demonstrates a commitment to elevating company-wide communication by enhancing internal documentation, fostering team collaboration, and supporting transparency across the firm.
Influence
- Lead by Example: Individual sets the example for the team by aligning their actions with their words.
- Indirect Mentorship: Individual provides indirect mentorship to anyone who asks questions or needs guidance.
- Direct Mentorship: Individual serves as a direct mentor to specific staff who seek mentorship to learn and enhance their soft and hard skills.
- Technical Expertise: Individual has a deep knowledge of their discipline that is supported by continuing education and certifications.
Knowledge
- Knowledge of the AEC industry and the design and construction of technology systems such as telecommunications infrastructure, cabling, audiovisual, security, acoustics, and wired and wireless networks.
- Large and complex construction projects ($500,000+ TEECOM fee) involving a multitude of disciplines with both long and fast-track timeframes (years or months) in various industry verticals (mission critical, healthcare, workplace, transportation, higher ed, government, industrial, cultural, etc.).
- Familiarity and experience with working with others discipline teams (architectural, electrical, mechanical, structural, and civil).
- Expert in production processes for the following systems a plus: data/voice structured cabling systems, audiovisual presentation and conferencing systems, wireless systems including Wi-Fi, public safety and cellular distribution systems (DAS), access control, intrusion detection, video surveillance systems, electrical distribution (conduit, cable tray, and device placement), outside plant pathways, and equipment modeling.
Skills
- Organization: Keep track of multiple projects and client and team member requests, often on a last-minute basis with excellent follow-up to assure promises are kept.
- Documentation: Thoroughly documents, updates, and maintains process documentation, notes, and decisions across appropriate platforms to ensure workflows, processes, and discussions are accessible and up-to-date.
- Communication: Conduct business communications in an effective, professional, and concise manner, both verbally and in written formats, and in one-on-one, small-group, and large-group settings. You must read, write, speak, compute, and problem-solve various tasks. Break down complex concepts into smaller and more digestible components that allow for a greater level of understanding by others.
- Teamwork: Work as a functional member of a team and successfully work with other teams and business functions to achieve positive results. Facilitate effective project team and cross-functional interactions (Technical, Operations, BD, Marketing, etc.).
- Problem Solving: Approach problems using a methodical and logical method to create a workable solution. Use numbers and mathematical approaches for various tasks. Conduct research using the Internet.
- Software: Use software applications effectively and efficiently (G Suite, MS Office, Bluebeam, Slack, Revit, AutoCAD MEP, Navisworks, Bluebeam Studio, etc.) to communicate and deliver work products.
- Process Oriented: Follow processes, continually seek to make processes more efficient, enforce processes, and conduct root cause analyses that lead to the update or creation of processes.
- Emotional Intelligence: Nurture, mentor, and manage staff who work in a deadline-driven environment on projects with complex needs. These conditions can lead to stress in team members. Know how and when to apply pressure and when to nurture staff members, resulting in high levels of effective communication, team member satisfaction, motivation, and project results, and leading to a highly functional and successful team.
- Mentorship: Mentor the technical staff and teach them the correct processes. Come prepared to maximize the effectiveness of time spent with your team, and keep timeliness in mind so that you act immediately when the situation demands it.
- Management: Break down complex projects into smaller tasks, plan, schedule, budget, and mitigate risk to successfully deliver work both for clients and internally for TEECOM. Delegate tasks to the most appropriate resource that allows for the efficient execution of the work while challenging staff and allowing them to grow.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Learn the building design process and the pursuit process
- Participate in BIM-related forums and user groups to discover new techniques; identify upcoming changes within the AEC industry with regards to the evolution of BIM processes
- Foster client relationships and fellow design team members and ensures all contact information and important discussions are documented in TEECOM’s CRM
- Ask clients about other current or upcoming projects
- Attend client and/or industry events
- Assist in schematic design, design development, and construction documentation for a variety of projects
- Coordinate and produce accurate and detailed construction documents in AutoCAD and Revit for one or more disciplines
- Communicate with clients, consultants, and BIM team regarding BIM standards/processes, and if necessary, document/create project BIM standards/processes for distribution to the project team
- Lead project production effort in a fast-paced and collaborative environment
- Coordinate schedules and resources around project work to complete tasks on time
- Lead and be accountable for the production package and the training of those working on the project team
- Provide BIM quality assurance and quality control by reviewing project BIM standards/BEP at various phases of the project so they adhere to TEECOM/Clients standards and client project requirements
- Model management and maintenance ensuring a healthy BIM database
- Lead or participate in project BIM coordination meetings: spatial coordination of disciplines, gathering discipline BIM models
- Conduct clash detection and conflict resolution
- Lead BIM project team in deploying project templates on specific projects and ensuring team adherence to them
- Manage BIM content development approvals for projects
- Coordinate with staff to review models and comments via Bluebeam
- Coordinate methods for electronic information transfer
- Identify and recommend automation tools, scripts, or other 3rd-party software tools to reduce the production time
- Perform other work-related duties as assigned
- Mentoring BIM Specialists and Designers
- Support teams with workload and assist where needed
- Establish and update TEECOM standards for discipline and client specific projects
- Attend initial project design team coordination meetings to identify and document BIM standards and production requirements
- Assist the production of resource libraries for Revit
- Assist the creation of standards for Revit
- Manage and develop utilities that produce analytical information from the BIM model for costing and estimating
- Create and Assist and update training materials for TEECOMuniversity and GitHub/Bridge as well as training sessions for the various Autodesk software
- Assist with recruiting efforts and the candidate experience
- Regularly document, update, and maintain team-related processes, workflows, and best practices. Actively initiate and participate in discussions about project challenges, process improvements, and other topics that enhance internal documentation and contribute to the team’s success and collaboration
- Ensure timesheets/expense reports are accurate and up-to-date daily
- Achieve billed revenue target each quarter
What Success in this Role Looks Like
- Utilization equals 85%
- Average hours worked is between 40 and 50 hours per week
- Achieve goals from the Performance Plan each quarter
- Quarterly reviews are completed on schedule
- Ensure BIM QA/QC are completed on all projects to adhere to TEECOM standards and client project requirements
- Complete 100% of Asana tasks on time
- Able to identify and prioritize tasks
- Make few if any mistakes (checking own work), mistakes are not repeated after correction
- Feel comfortable interfacing with client in meetings
- Offer ideas to automate work or improve templates/processes
- Meet deadlines
- Manage time well, planning ahead, not asking for help at last minute
- Able to work under pressure and tight deadlines
- Familiar with Dynamo scripts
- Problem-solving and organizational experience and a focus on continuous improvement
- Identify resources needed and work closely with the overall team lead to maintain full visibility of multiple projects, ensuring resource gaps are prioritized and addressed efficiently
- Actively engage with GitHub repositories, Callback One, Design Decision Logs, and other pertinent platforms by consistently contributing valuable documentation and participating in discussions to enhance internal documentation and team collaboration.
Experience
- Associate Degree in a related field or Technical Certificate in Drafting, or related field.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture or Engineering is plus
- Minimum four to five years AEC Industry experience including large scale and complex projects
- Minimum four to five years of professional Autodesk product use and support (Revit Architecture, Revit MEP, AutoCAD or AutoCAD MEP)
- Bluebeam Studio
- Microsoft Office 365 Suite
- G Suite
Certifications
Your level will be evaluated and determined during the interview process.
We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES: Please note that TEECOM does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Recruitment Fee Agreement, TEECOM will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, TEECOM explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of TEECOM.
