DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.

DLR Group's Design Technology team has an opening for a Design Technology Discipline Lead for our Engineering practice. We operate within a hybrid work model, supporting flexibility between office time and work from home.

Considering this model, this role could be based in the following cities:

• Los Angeles, CA
• Omaha, NE
• Dallas, TX
• Portland, OR

Position Summary

The Design Technology Discipline Lead, Engineering will set the guidelines for the BIM workflow throughout the Engineering Group. The top priority of the DTDL is to ensure that our BIM processes are geared to maximum efficiency, as this relates to the utilization of Design Technology tools for engineering.

If you are a collaborative thought leader with a strategic mindset this might be the position for you. DLR Group is 100% employee owned and as such you’ll enjoy the opportunity to have ownership in the Firm. We rely on all our employee-owners to apply their financial acumen to grow the Firm profitably.

The successful candidate will:

Cultivate a culture of learning

• Coordinate national training for DLR Group standards and best practices.
• Review and coordinate BIM training with Discipline BIM Leaders for tools and workflows. Curate content in learning and development platform monthly.
• Coordinate and direct DLR Group-specific Revit Skills Assessment questions and training with discipline BIM leaders.

Evolve Engineering Practice

• Coordinate annual BIM summit to further develop and align technology and innovations of our BIM practice.
• Manage and implement items within Revit/BIM discipline request logs for quarterly content releases.
• Conduct monthly meetings with discipline BIM leaders to coordinate development, testing, and training.

Communicate Effectively to Staff

• Communicate status and updates of Revit request logs with discipline BIM leaders including review and back check.
• Track and report tools and content usage to Discipline BIM leaders and Engineering leadership.
• Communicate new developments and tools internally.

Create a DLR Group Design technology approach

• Communicate support needs of engineering team to Design Technology managers.
• Coordinate engineering related software development needs with Design Technology Development team.

Required Qualifications:

• Associate degree or technical college certificate for engineering technology, BIM/drafting technology.
• Sound and highly developed technical competency skills in the areas of utilizing BIM tools, the ability to learn new BIM tools and the ability to translate and implement DLR Group best practices and training.
• Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
• Ability to effectively write user guides and Revit user documentation.
• Experience developing effective and concise training on BIM tools.
• Ability to work both independently and effectively in a cross-disciplinary team atmosphere and across multiple offices.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, engineering, interior design or related construction industry.
• Previous experience leading a team using Revit.
• LEED accreditation.

DLR Group?is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.

We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients’ success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Our ambition is to use our collective design voice to bring about a better society and create stronger communities by recognizing and addressing longstanding inequities in our nation. Leading this change – to deliver a more equitable culture – aligns with DLR Group’s Core Values and our brand promise to elevate the human experience through design. By exploring, discovering, sharing, and ultimately resolving inequities identified within our firm and the broader A/E/C industry, we can develop a more diverse and inclusive design culture to better fulfill our brand promise.

Our comprehensive Benefits at DLR Group include medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs, flex spending, paid holidays, and paid time off. We also offer a 401(k) plan, employee stock ownership, and bonus opportunities. Compensation considerations are based on location, experience, and skills.

Through our values – commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork – we elevate the human experience through design, together.

We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V.

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