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Framing Layout Lead – Commercial & Multifamily Construction
Artcad Builders
Location: Modesto, California; In-Office Position
Position: Full-Time; Salaried
Salary Range: $90,000–$115,000 annually, depending on experience
Position Overview
Artcad Builders is seeking a highly experienced Framing Layout Lead to join our team in our Modesto, California office.
This position is designed for an experienced framer who has spent significant time in the field and has personally been responsible for laying out large commercial and multifamily wood-framed buildings.
The Framing Layout Lead will bring that field experience into the office and work directly with Artcad's Project Managers and internal design and prefabrication teams. The primary responsibility is to review construction documents, coordinate building layout requirements and review our internally generated prefabrication designs and wall books before they are released for production and field installation.
We are specifically looking for someone who understands how a building actually gets framed in the field and can apply that knowledge during preconstruction, coordination and prefabrication.
This is primarily an in-office position in Modesto. Regular jobsite travel is not required. On rare occasions, the Framing Layout Lead may accompany a Project Manager to a project to review specific field conditions or coordination issues.
Key Responsibilities
Plan & Constructability Review
- Perform detailed reviews of architectural and structural construction documents for commercial and multifamily framing projects.
- Cross-reference architectural and structural drawings to identify dimensional discrepancies, conflicts and missing information.
- Review floor plans, structural plans, elevations, sections, details and schedules from an experienced framer's perspective.
- Verify building dimensions, wall locations, wall types, openings, bearing conditions and critical framing conditions.
- Review grids, control dimensions, floor-to-floor relationships and building geometry.
- Identify constructability problems before walls and framing components are fabricated.
- Work with Project Managers to identify items requiring RFIs or clarification from the Architect, Structural Engineer or General Contractor.
- Review RFIs, ASIs, bulletins and revised drawings and determine how changes affect framing and prefabricated components.
Layout Planning & Coordination
- Develop and review framing layout information based on approved construction documents.
- Establish critical building dimensions, grid lines, control lines and reference points for use by field layout crews.
- Review exterior walls, corridors, units, shafts, stairs, elevators and other critical building dimensions.
- Verify floor-to-floor alignment and stacking conditions.
- Identify potential layout conflicts before information is released to the field.
- Provide technical layout support to Project Managers and field leadership when questions arise.
- Use extensive field experience to ensure layout information is practical and usable by Artcad's Foremen and crews.
Prefabrication & Wall Book Coordination
- Work directly with Artcad's internal design and prefabrication teams during development of wall panels and wall books.
- Review internally generated wall layouts against architectural and structural construction documents.
- Apply field framing and layout experience to Artcad's prefabrication design process.
- Verify wall lengths, heights, openings, headers, bearing points, wall types and framing conditions.
- Review wall panel breaks and panelization from the standpoint of field installation.
- Evaluate whether prefabricated assemblies can be efficiently produced, transported, staged and installed.
- Identify conditions better suited for field framing rather than prefabrication.
- Review wall books for accuracy and constructability before release to production and field operations.
- Coordinate design revisions with Project Managers and the internal design team.
- Help ensure field crews receive clear, accurate and usable wall books and layout information.
Framing Coordination
- Review wall, floor and roof framing for coordination between prefabricated and field-built components.
- Understand and identify bearing conditions, shear walls, hold-downs, straps, posts, beams, headers and structural hardware requirements.
- Review engineered lumber and structural framing conditions that affect wall fabrication or layout.
- Coordinate framing conditions around stairs, elevators, shafts, corridors and other complex areas.
- Identify conflicts between architectural and structural documents.
- Recognize potential conflicts with mechanical, electrical, plumbing and other building systems where they affect framing.
- Assist Project Managers with framing-related questions during preconstruction and construction.
Quality Control
- Provide an experienced framer's review of projects before prefabrication begins.
- Verify approved RFIs and design changes have been incorporated into current wall books and framing information.
- Help establish and maintain standardized Artcad layout and wall-book review procedures.
- Identify repetitive conditions where a single design or layout error could affect multiple units, walls or floors.
- Review lessons learned from field operations and incorporate that knowledge into future prefabrication and layout planning.
- Help reduce framing errors, field modifications, wasted material and rework through better upfront planning.
Qualifications
- Minimum 10 years of hands-on wood framing experience required.
- Significant commercial and/or multifamily framing experience required.
- Demonstrated experience as the lead person responsible for complete building layout is required.
- Experience laying out large multifamily, podium, mixed-use, hotel, student housing or similar wood-framed buildings strongly preferred.
- Advanced ability to read and interpret architectural and structural construction documents.
- Strong understanding of building grids, control lines, dimensions, elevations and building geometry.
- Thorough understanding of wood-framing construction and sequencing.
- Strong knowledge of walls, floors, roofs, shear walls, hold-downs, structural hardware, engineered lumber, headers, beams and bearing conditions.
- Ability to cross-reference architectural and structural drawings and identify discrepancies.
- Ability to understand how framing details shown on construction documents translate into actual field installation.
- Ability to recognize constructability and layout issues before work reaches the field.
- Experience with prefabricated or panelized wood framing strongly preferred.
- Experience reviewing shop drawings, panel drawings, wall books or similar fabrication documents preferred.
- Experience with Bluebeam or similar digital plan-review software strongly preferred.
- Comfortable working with digital plans, tablets and construction management systems.
- Strong communication and organizational skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively with Project Managers, designers, Foremen and field personnel.
- Ability to work independently and make sound recommendations based on extensive framing experience.
- Bilingual English/Spanish is a plus.
Work Environment
This is a full-time, in-office position based at Artcad Builders' Modesto, California office.
The Framing Layout Lead will spend the majority of their time working directly with our Project Management, design and prefabrication teams reviewing projects before and during construction.
Jobsite travel will be limited and generally only required on rare occasions when accompanying a Project Manager to investigate or coordinate a specific field condition.
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary: $90,000–$115,000 annually, depending on qualifications and experience
- Health benefits
- 401(k)
- Paid time off and company holidays
- Company-provided technology and equipment necessary for the position
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate has spent a significant portion of their career framing large buildings and has personally led layout in the field.
You should be able to open a set of architectural and structural drawings and understand not only what is shown, but how the building is actually going to be laid out and framed.
You know which dimensions matter. You understand how control lines and grids translate into walls. You recognize when architectural and structural plans do not agree. You know the framing conditions that commonly create problems in the field, and you understand how a seemingly small error in a prefabricated wall package can repeat across an entire floor or building.
We are looking to bring that experience into our office and apply it before the work reaches our fabrication facility or field crews.
Primary Objective
The objective of the Framing Layout Lead is to identify and resolve framing, layout and constructability issues before they become field problems.
By combining experienced field layout knowledge with Artcad's project management, internal design and prefabrication capabilities, this position will help us produce more accurate wall packages, better wall books, cleaner field installations and fewer costly corrections and delays.
Pay: $90,000.00 - $115,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
Work Location: In person
