BIM Manager

About the role

As a BIM Manager, you will play a strategic role in developing and implementing a road map towards enhancing the organization's BIM capability. You will collaborate with stakeholders across the business to define the vision, roadmaps, and related features to be delivered for selected BIM uses, ensuring alignment with BIM strategy and business goals. You will continuously improve tools and processes by fostering support bases and developing sustainable initiatives. Beyond technology, the focus of this role extends to business alignment, partnership, and driving roadmap synchronization.

You will report to the Operations Team for Airports North American but participate as an active member in the Global BIM Office. This role requires a strong understanding of Building Information Modelling in various industries, global standards, concepts, tools, and techniques. You will be responsible for optimizing and enhancing solutions and processes that support BIM capabilities on customer projects and making best practices to support standardization and re-usability.

Key Responsibilities

• Define, implement BIM standards and BIM ways of working in the organization globally.
• Implement BIM with required maturity level as per customer requirements in organization - projects and teams globally.
• Build the BIM team and BIM competence (hiring, reviewing, developing talent) within the North American organization.
• Manage and tailor the Forma environments for projects in terms of templates, workflows, access and rights management, and customer specific requirements.
• Participate / lead as an expert in discussions related to BIM requirements with customers, consultants, architects, and others.
• Lead as consultant for sales, engineering, installation, service teams on BIM related topics.
• Provide Vanderlande compliance statement against customer BIM requirements.
• Help set Global and Regional BIM standards and strive to achieve adherence with consistency.
• Drive change management within organization for BIM ways of working towards required maturity level and BIM dimensions.
• Ensure interoperability of different software used in the project implementation within Vanderlande, with suppliers and external parties.
• Work as a trainer for BIM Managers, BIM Coordinators, BIM Modelers, and Software solutions such as Revit, Forma, and related workflows.
• Support & connect with developers of engineering suite of tools and content builders to assure libraries are set-up and maintained in a BIM compliant way.
• Interface with customer’s design team - BIM and IT Managers, and Vanderlande BIM Business Architect and IT team to ensure required software is available and customized properly where necessary.
• Act as a Vanderlande authority to agree on deviations/non-compliances in project sales phase against Vanderlande BIM standards.
• Handle escalations of BIM relevant topics where other BIM professionals cannot decide.
• Set-up and maintain Vanderlande BIM Standards (choice of software, LOD templates, specs, etc…).
• Review contracts, BEP, EIR, RFP, customer BIM Protocols, customer BIM standards during bid phase.
• Create and maintain preBEP, BEP, EIR, MIDP, TIDP, Risk Register, Mobilisation Plan templates. Support creation and review of such documents on the projects.
• Create BIM implementation roadmap along with BIM Office team.
• Implement solution (best practices) for prioritized BIM uses.
• Act as end point of escalations on technical topics related to BIM.
• Keep on the top of latest BIM technologies. Identify and recommend adaptation and improvements in solutions and process to comply with BIM uses (e.g. reality capture, 4D, 5D, CDE, issue management).

About the team

The Regional BIM Manager will report within the Engineering group of Project Execution based in Marietta, GA. They will coordinate and participate in the Global BIM Office which has a goal to achieve enhanced BIM capabilities, compliance to customer BIM requirements, BIM maturity level 2, and adherence to ISO 19650 processes. This position's upline consists of Senior Manager Engineering, Director of Engineering, VP of Operations, and Executive Managing Director of North America. This role will work with various SMEs and BIM professionals within Vanderlande Customer Centres and Business Units who work as BIM office regional representatives.

Your profile / qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Engineering, Architect, Construction).
• Minimum 10 years of experience working as a BIM 3D modeler, BIM Coordinator, and BIM Manager.
• Experienced in 3D information modeling and BIM related software, e.g. Revit, AutoCAD, Navisworks, Tekla, BIM Collab, BIM 360, Forma (ACC), and other CDEs (Aconex, ProjectWise, Dalux, Procore, Connect, etc.).
• Experienced in working as a BIM Manager in complex and large-scale BIM projects within Autodesk Forma.
• Broad understanding of IT hardware, software solutions, and processes.
• Affinity with software development and implementation.
• Advanced knowledge and experience with the Autodesk software ecosystem.
• Experienced in automation & productivity improvement (e.g. various add-ins, Dynamo, Python, etc.).
• Certain in correct and accurate creation and maintenance of BIM documentation, e.g. EIR, preBEP, BEP, etc.
• Strong BIM knowledge, codes, regulation, and norms expert in ISO 19650 standards, NBIMS-US, PAS, LOD standards, IFC, BCF, Uniformat, Master format, BIM protocols, BIM uses, and industry best practices.
• Able to establish quality control and quality assurance processes related to BIM workflows and deliverables.
• Up to date with current technological innovations and has an outlook on future developments with a natural drive for continuous improvement.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with creating custom training plans. Seasoned trainer who creates and maintains custom training material. Ability to propagate knowledge and skills with capacity to 'train the trainer.'
• Adept at coaching project teams and individuals in project-specific challenges.
• Experienced in working in a cross-functional team environment.
• Strong project management and stakeholder management skills. Capable in managing client, other contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers on BIM matters.
• Flexibility to travel domestically and internationally up to 15% as required.
• Excellent written communication skills with fluency in English.