VDC Coordinator
$35 - $50/hr+ Employee referral incentive
Mid
Sacramento, CA, USA
In Person
Architecture & Civil EngineeringConstruction Management
About the job
Requirements
- Four or more years of experience working in a BIM environment.
- Proficiency with the latest versions of Autodesk Revit.
- Knowledge of BIM 360, Navisworks, Trimble, Bluebeam, and AutoCAD.
- Ability to create simple parametric families and understand and work with complex families based on project needs.
- Ability to create and manipulate schedules for takeoffs, bills of materials, and cut lists.
- Ability to read and understand drawings from multiple disciplines and identify potential flaws or risks.
- Ability to troubleshoot minor software issues independently.
- Must be detail-oriented and well-organized.
- Ability to communicate effectively across multilevel teams and owner types.
- Understanding of one-line diagrams in electrical systems.
- Must wear proper personal protective equipment on jobsites and comply with all safety standards and procedures.
- Ability to sit, stand, walk, lift, carry, push, pull, kneel, crouch, and reach during the workday.
Responsibilities
- Assist with 3D modeling for large-scale, high-complexity projects using superintendent or layout specialist layouts.
- Use Navisworks Manage or ACC Forma for clash detection and resolution.
- Ensure models meet general contractor requirements in the BIM execution plan or appendix.
- Collaborate with senior VDC coordinators, supervisors, and managers to maintain BIM budgets.
- Ensure accurate and timely completion of models and drawings for assigned projects according to the general contractor or operations team schedule.
- Use ClickUp for task management according to Royal Electric’s R-Series standards.
- Identify and share new methods and workflows for VDC work.
- Adhere to project schedules and communicate promptly when timelines may not be met.
- Use and maintain the project tracking system.
- Use and seek advanced workflows to improve efficiency and accuracy.
- Represent the company in high-level coordination meetings with clients and trade partners.
- Resolve coordination issues while minimizing cost and schedule impacts, and communicate impacts to stakeholders.
- Collaborate with field staff, clients, and trade partners in support of project success.
- Use conflict-resolution strategies and help ensure the constructability of final models.
- Build collaborative relationships with owners and trade partners to solve project problems.
- Create accurate content and troubleshoot software issues by using available resources or consulting peers.
- Promote construction technology and mentor or train peers in its use.
- Read plans, specifications, submittals, and codes, and identify potential flaws or risks.
- Perform quality assurance and quality control on own and others’ work for appropriate use of construction materials and methods.
- Create prefabrication assembly details, work with field operations to identify assemblies, and seek new prefabrication opportunities and methods.
- Coordinate difficult issues with field operations and bring cost impacts to stakeholders.
- Provide clear directions, take notes, and set daily and weekly goals for self and others.
- Maintain an organized digital workspace and ensure others do the same.
- Follow and enforce department file-management policies so department members can access files and digital assets.
Desired Qualifications
- A strong electrical background is preferred.
About the company
Royal Electric designs and builds electrical systems and underground utilities for property owners, general contractors and public agencies across the Central and Western United States. Its work spans airfields and transportation infrastructure as well as commercial buildings and facilities that depend on reliable power. The company takes projects from early design and construction planning through installation, using prefabricated assemblies and digital building models to coordinate work before crews reach the site. It earns revenue through construction contracts for electrical and underground project scopes. Royal Electric was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Sacramento, California.
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Sacramento, CA
Founded
1971
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Royal adds field oversight: visiting executives join daily safety meetings, alongside regular site visits from safety staff and superintendents.
- Full-time infrastructure managers receive defined time off: Royal lists eight paid holidays alongside vacation and sick leave.
- Royal demonstrates large-project execution: its September 2026 report describes 64 miles of cable replaced at San Francisco International Airport.
What critics are saying
- Deadlines demand extra effort: Royal explicitly asks employees to stretch when critical project deadlines require it.
- Interstate assignments limit local work: Royal's Infrastructure Project Manager opening requires out-of-state travel from Sacramento or Pleasanton.
- Royal reported in September 2026 that San Francisco airport crews worked two additional months at night after runway reopening.
What makes Royal Electric unique
- Royal controls concrete supply: two volumetric trucks act as batch plants when tight schedules rule out third parties.
- Royal adds testing to construction: its California services cover Title 24 building standards compliance.
- Royal built an airfield niche early: its airport-lighting practice dates to its first airport bids in the 1980s.
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