Technical Expert

**About The Company**
GROPYUS creates sustainable, affordable, and aspirational buildings for everyone through modular construction and setting a new standard in smart living.

**About the role**:
**We are looking for you**: A Technical Expert with experience in Timber Building Design who wishes to join our Product Evolution team. The Product Evolution team is a multi-disciplinary design-focused unit tasked with developing the next generation of Sustainable Prefabricated Buildings designed for Rapid, Automated Manufacture and Assembly. You will be working alongside experienced Architects, Engineers and Business Development specialists. You will be equally capable and happy to work independently or as part of a close-knit team.

GROPYUS seeks to bring a state-of-the-art prefabricated timber Building System solution to International Marketplaces, establish a digitally driven robotic manufacturing facility in multiple locations to service different regions of the World. GROPYUS recognizes the inherent technical difficulty associated with delivering a product that can be successful in different international regions.

**You as a solution**: We are looking for a colleague with a wide-ranging understanding of technical regulations relating to timber building design; specifically mid-rise mixed-use/residential buildings (conscious that in the future we intend to pivot to other building typologies). While we are focusing on multiple geographies, experience/knowledge in relation to North American regulations are explicitly valuable.

As an expert in the field, you will provide technical expertise to enable the benchmarking of the GROPYUS Building System Product as part of the due diligence process of entering foreign markets. This work will be highly influential in gaining credibility with potential investors active in these markets.

The role requires both impeccable English language skills (ideally supplemented with other languages in relevant markets) and extensive technical knowledge of prefabricated-timber construction.

Ideally you will also understand the basics of setting up a company and the fundamentals of the formulation of business cases in foreign territories and the technical difficulties of achieving product insertion when cutting across international codes and standards boundaries.

It is anticipated that adjustment of our current product lines will be required. Therefore, we seek to employ an experienced individual that has a comprehensive understanding of mass timber or timber framed construction design practice. Ideally the applicant will have experience/ exposure to all, or many disciplines related to such buildings e.g. Structural engineering, fire resistance and fire suppression systems, sustainability assessments, Building Physics. Previous exposure to regulatory code compliance for prefabricated building solutions would also be hugely advantageous.

A goal of this role is to unify the knowledge we gain from a network of local experts/consultants (active in different regional markets) to help the wider GROPYUS team understand how to evolve our existing product line into a compliant, attractive, affordable market-ready product.

While this role would be focused on product design / engineering you will work with other team members who will focus on diverse activities such as project pipeline establishment, customer engagement, factory location scouting and Supply Chain feasibility assessments.

In order to build fruitful relationships in the regions of interest, attract investments and realize building projects abroad you will assist in some technical tasks, including:

- Explaining our product on a detailed technical level, including performing technical sales to potential international investors
- Evaluating potential technical product adjustments based on local building codes.
- Coordinating the efforts of various local technical experts/consultants that are required to conduct a Product Benchmarking Study.
- Assessing the technical feasibility, steering and planning the development of international pilot projects, acting as an internal technical sparring partner for decentralized construction partners & experts

**In this role, you will**:

- work as part of a close-knit compact team with diverse market entry goals.
- be involved in the assessment of adaptation of a European design to suit International Timber Residential and Multi-Use Building requirements.

**About you**:

- Most likely completed University level (or equivalent) studies (Bachelors, Masters, PHD etc.) and have at least 10 years of experience post-graduation in an Architectural/Engineering practice or Timber Manufacturing or Construction Company.
- Portfolio of experience in the design of timber buildings
- While not necessary for the role it would be unusual if you do not hold (or have held) a professional accreditation through a recognized AEC (Architecture Engineering Construction) Professional Institution.
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