Principal BIM Lead

COWI A/S; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy in the East Midlands is looking for a Principal BIM Lead to enhance its Digital Delivery team. The role involves providing expert advice across stakeholders while driving high-quality 3D models and 2D drawings. You will coordinate multidisciplinary teams, oversee the implementation of digital tools, and support junior team members' development. The ideal candidate has significant experience in the digital production cycle and knowledge of relevant software platforms. Competitive salary and hybrid working options available.

Benefits

28 days' holiday plus all UK bank and public holidays

Private health care

Flexible and hybrid working conditions

Life assurance

Qualifications

• Experience in supporting projects during digital production, compliance, and handover stages.
• Extensive experience with software platforms on UK infrastructure projects.
• Thought leader with a vision to support digital delivery outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Driving the production of high-quality 3D models and 2D drawings.
• Implementing and running the coordination of multidisciplinary teams.
• Providing training and development for junior team members.

Skills

Knowledge of software platforms (Revit, Tekla, Bentley OpenBuildings Designer)

Experience in coordinating with multidisciplinary teams

Knowledge of programming languages (Python, C#, Dynamo, Grasshopper)

Experience with Common Data Environments (CDE)

Enhanced communication skills

Demonstrable experience of working with Information Management Initiative (IMI)

Education

HNC or higher education in Civil Engineering or a related field

Job description

Overview

Do you want to be part of our Digital Delivery team? Can you support internal and external stakeholders? Are you experienced in multiple software platforms (including Revit, Tekla and/or Bentley OpenBuildings Designer)? Then, enhance your career by turning challenges into sustainable solutions.

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow

To enhance our Digital Delivery team, we are looking for a Principal BIM Lead to join us. Working in any of our UK offices, you will be providing advice and support to internal and external supply chain/stakeholders and enforce consistent and compliant use of Digital Tools to align with or inform the production of Exchange Information Requirements and BIM Execution Plans. Developing, updating or maintaining software interfaces between project, client and 3rd party systems.

Responsibilities

• Driving the production and delivery of high-quality 3D models and 2D drawings in accordance with COWI’s standards and any project-specific standards agreed with our clients.
• Supporting the delivery of/developing detailed multi-disciplinary models, knowledge of Asset Tagging required, as well as the development of families/component libraries.
• Implementing/running the coordination of multidisciplinary teams by ensuring models are fully integrated.
• Assisting discipline leads by providing technical support and expertise throughout project lifecycles.
• Implementing/running automated scripts and tools to enhance workflows and improve project efficiency.
• Assisting and advising on and ensuring projects are set-up effectively with respect to software, tools, and processes.
• Taking an engaged approach in training and developing colleagues across the business and junior members of the Digital Delivery Discipline Team, ensuring their advancement and skill-building on various projects, as well as acting as a Key Specialist and performing a lead role across Teams and Projects.
• Providing key specialist support to the Discipline Management Team in the development of internal processes.
• Maintaining a positive and enthusiastic attitude towards checking and a business-minded approach to quality.

Skills and Experience

• Previous experience of supporting projects within the digital production, compliance and handover stages.
• Experience in coordinating with multidisciplinary teams and integrating designs.
• Knowledge of programming languages and visual programming: Python, C#, Dynamo, Grasshopper, etc. Implementation and oversight of the above in projects.
• Experience with implementing/overseeing the use of interfacing software for clash avoidance, clash detection and coordination activities.
• Experience of working with Common Data Environments (CDE) specifically ProjectWise and Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC).
• Extensive experience with multiple software platforms (including Revit, Tekla and/or Bentley OpenBuildings Designer) on UK infrastructure projects, especially in a multi-disciplinary environment.
• An HNC or higher education in Civil Engineering or a related field and Professionally Qualified to EngTech (MICE or TMIET).
• Enhanced communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with engineers, discipline leads, and project managers.
• Demonstrable experience of working with the Information Management Initiative (IMI) (formerly the UK BIM Framework) and working in UK BIM Project Delivery Roles.
• Thought leader with a drive and vision to support COWI UK on its digital delivery journey resulting in consistent and efficient project outcomes that meet client needs.

What We Offer

A place to work and so much more

At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We aspire to have 100% of our revenue come from activities that move our customers towards sustainability. We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home. With offices primarily located in Scandinavia, the UK, Ireland, North America, and India, we are currently 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy, and environment into play.

What we also offer

To us, a fair reward is more than a competitive salary. We want to take care of our people professionally and personally as well.

Some of our benefits include:

• 28 days' holiday plus all UK bank and public holidays
• Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities
• Private health care, for you and your immediate dependents
• Flexible and hybrid working conditions
• Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions
• Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange
• Life assurance

Contact and Equal Opportunity

Got more questions? If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to Ciaran Gilfedder at [e-mail].

Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.

Equal opportunity employer. COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.