VDC Supervisor
$60 - $70/hr
Senior
Sacramento, CA, USA
In Person
Architecture & Civil EngineeringBuilding Services Engineering
About the job
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience working in a building information modeling environment.
- Proficiency in the latest versions of Autodesk Revit and Evolve.
- Extensive knowledge of BIM 360/ACC, Navisworks, Trimble, Bluebeam, and AutoCAD.
- Ability to create complex parametric families and understand and work with complex families based on department needs.
- Ability to actively mitigate potential project problems.
- Ability to use available resources to solve problems quickly and efficiently.
- Ability to produce high-quality, well-considered work, systems, and standards.
- Strong, expert-level proficiency in Revit and Evolve.
- Ability to read and understand drawings from multiple disciplines and identify potential flaws or risks.
- Ability to troubleshoot software issues independently for oneself and the team.
- Must be detail-oriented and well organized.
- Ability to communicate effectively across multilevel teams and with clients.
- Must wear proper personal protective equipment while on jobsites.
- Must comply with all safety standards and procedures.
- Must sit, stand, and walk during the workday, and lift, carry, push, pull, kneel, crouch, and reach.
Responsibilities
- Coach modelers and coordinators toward successful accomplishment of their key results by assessing their skill sets, identifying coaching and training needs, and providing feedback.
- Train the team and assist in developing software, building information modeling, and virtual design and construction standards.
- Ensure standards are communicated and followed throughout the department.
- Promote and exemplify the company culture and linking values.
- Coordinate personnel based on workload and schedule.
- Ensure modelers and coordinators understand client and field-operation needs, objectives, and project challenges, and support their success.
- Work with project managers and superintendents to identify project scope and facilitate its completion.
- Flag and document changes to virtual design and construction scope based on field requests, client requests, and design changes, and communicate them to project managers so budgeted hours can be updated.
- Develop and communicate the internal virtual design and construction schedule based on project build schedules and client schedules.
- Identify and communicate to superintendents and project managers the dates by which key information and files are needed to produce models and drawings.
- Communicate with project teams and clients to eliminate impacts on department productivity caused by clients, field operations, design changes, and other factors.
- Review productivity goals with virtual design and construction coordinators and layout specialists to ensure schedules align with project timelines.
- Ensure the team meets productivity and work-quality standards.
- Track timelines and progress toward deliverables and report them to project teams.
- Track billed hours by project and drawing code for cost analysis.
- Utilize and manage third-party partners to ensure the department can support its workload.
- Ensure all active projects have the resources needed for success.
- Update the historical database with final billed hours from completed projects to create production rates.
- Gather and record feedback on models and drawings.
- Gather, record, and communicate team feedback on systems and procedures.
- Implement standards for department work products, including drawing codes and drafting conventions.
- Update department workflows and standard operating procedures based on current best practices.
- Research and share trends in electrical fabrication design.
- Build relationships between field management and department staff to promote collaborative project planning.
- Ensure and facilitate communication between the virtual design and construction department and project staff regarding project health, budget, constraints, issues, and progress.
- Provide feedback to estimating regarding clients’ actual virtual design and construction requirements and revised estimated work hours.
- Represent the company’s virtual design and construction expertise at project interviews and potential-client meetings.
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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