Construction Technology Specialist

Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency is seeking a Construction Technology Specialist to join our Client's team.

General Job Description: 

Reporting to the Construction Technology Manager, the Construction Technology Specialist will be responsible for enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of our construction sites technologies. The specialist will provide technology support to job site leadership and personnel. They will be responsible for the maintenance, support, and improvement of field technologies support such as cloud storage, field iPad, Navis Models accessibility, Bluebeam, and other construction-specific applications. They should have skills in the successful execution of technical enhancements and/or improvements. They should have skills in application configuration and integration. These skills will be utilized to demonstrate value through prototypes, documents, and presentations.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Test, maintain and deploy corporate estimating and operations software updates as necessary.

Collaborate with training development teams to create and maintain new training material content.

Estimating and bid tracking software user management.

Possess the ability to turn concepts into workable solutions for the organization.

Successfully work with the operations team to develop best-practice solutions for internal stakeholders.

Participate in the evaluation of existing applications to reconfigure, update and add new features to achieve ‘constant improvement’ ideology.

Perform configuration and integration testing in beta environments with select user groups.

Successfully guide support issues (troubleshoot/debug) from the Project Management teams utilizing standardized ticketing system.

Maintain on-going project status and documentation

Assist in technical document development to accurately represent application design and configuration.

Successfully work with the operations team to develop best-practice solutions for internal stakeholders.

Participate in the evaluation of existing applications to reconfigure, update, and add new features to achieve ‘constant improvement’ ideology.

Perform configuration and integration testing in beta environments with select user groups.

Maintain on-going project status and documentation. 

Assist in technical document development to accurately represent application design and configuration.

Willing to travel to different locations to conduct training and support as needed.

Position Requirements (Skills, Knowledge, Abilities):

Bachelor degree, or 5 years of industry-related experience 

3 years of comparable experience with estimating, project management, bid tracking (or similar software)

Possesses a willingness to learn and master new application platforms, as required

Strong data analysis, design, and application testing skills

Ability to use discretion, and maintain confidential information

Operate in a startup fashion, for emerging technologies that impact the construction industry

Ability to quickly adapt to new business teams, new technologies and processes

Ability to express difficult and complex concepts clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing

Possesses strong relationship management skills working and consulting with users

15-20% travel (or as required) to local offices and jobsites, from primary office location (Azusa, Commerce, Costa Mesa, Cypress, Pasadena, Pleasanton, or San Leandro)

Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone's global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.

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