BIM Manager - Data Centers

About the role

SLB New Energy & Industrial (NEI) is a division of SLB, with a portfolio including ventures in carbon capture and sequestration, geothermal power, energy storage, sustainable battery-grade lithium, hydrogen, and Data center infrastructure solutions. The Data Center infrastructure solutions business provides innovative and cost-effective solutions that enable building faster, smarter, and more resilient data centers.

SLB is seeking a highly qualified and motivated BIM Manager to lead the BIM/VDC of the Data Center project portfolio, acting as the single point of accountability for all BIM and model-coordination matters across active projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide centralized BIM/VDC leadership and accountability across all Data Center projects.
• Ensure effective MEP model coordination, clash resolution, and constructability analysis of models provided by design consultants, equipment manufacturers, and other third parties.
• Maintain alignment between trade partners, engineering contractors, vendors, and client-issued models on all BIM matters.
• Contribute to the team's identification of modularization and prefabrication opportunities that improve constructability, schedule, and repeatability.
• Build, staff, and scale a distributed BIM coordination team that delivers consistent quality across projects.

Requirements

• Define and maintain the Data Center portfolio BIM standards, ensuring adherence to BIM Execution Plans (BXP), templates, naming conventions, and workflows.
• Hire, onboard, train, and manage BIM coordinators across multiple North America locations.
• Establish Level of Detail requirements and model-sharing protocols; operate within and adapt to each client's Common Data Environment (e.g., Autodesk Construction Cloud / BIM 360, Procore) and consultant standards.
• Evaluate and implement BIM/VDC tools and emerging technology (reality capture, digital twin, automation).
• Partner with preconstruction, project management, field, and MEP/prefab teams to align BIM with schedule and cost goals.

Qualifications and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in construction management, Architecture, Engineering, or related field. Equivalent experience may be considered.

• 10-15 years in BIM/VDC on commercial or industrial construction.
• Experience on mission-critical or data center is strongly preferred.
• Proficiency with Autodesk Revit and Navisworks, and the ability to work across multiple client Common Data Environments (Autodesk Construction Cloud / BIM 360, Procore) is required.
• Demonstrated hands-on MEP coordination and clash detection on large, systems-intensive projects.
• Prior experience leading or mentoring BIM staff; experience managing distributed or multi-site teams a plus.