Digital Construction Engineer

RG Setsquare; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

RG Setsquare is recruiting a Digital Construction Engineer to join the Pre Construction team of our blue chip client. The role focuses on ensuring BIM, digital and information activities comply with our ways of working and stakeholder needs, providing technical and operational support across production, quality, and cost management.

You will lead BIM strategy, coordinate with planning, design and procurement, ensure ISO 19650 compliance, and deliver BEP and 3D/BIM coordination; act as BIM lead

Job description

Our Client, a Blue Chip Building Contractor are currently looking for a Digital Construction Engineer to join their busy and expanding Pre Construction team. The key responsibility of the Digital Construction Engineer is to ensure the BIM, digital and information activities are conducted in compliance with our ways of working and our stakeholders needs. The successful individual will be responsible for providing technical and operational support, together with production, quality, operational/site management support and managing costs whilst creating a supportive and collaborative environment, meeting client expectations and enhancing the reputation of our construction business.

Key Responsibilities

• Managing a large framework of educational build projects a project BIM strategy based of off the clients Information Requirements which is to include the creating the post-contract BIM Execution Plan and all other company BIM related duties.
• Together with the client team and stakeholders, assist in developing the project's digital handover strategy
• Maintaining an understanding of industry standards such as ISO 19650 series and alike
• Accountable for the implementation and compliance with all safety requirements across staff, contractors and work practices ensuring appropriate records are maintained and required reports are available.
• Recognise and reward safe behaviours and practices. Provide leadership in establishing our BIM, and information management processes with project teams
• Manage the BIM and information management delivery within a timely manner ensure the maximum outcomes for the client and stakeholders.
• Implement digital strategy to effectively manage BIM and Information management on projects
• Ensure quality is at a consistently high level and pro-actively identify quality issues.
• Review and assist commercial teams with costs and controls associated to our BIM and information management strategy.
• Coordinate with planning team to ensure BIM and Information.
• Consultant appointments - Working closely with our Construction team and help them to appoint consultants with appropriate BIM obligations as part of their appointment contracts including BIM capability assessments of the project team
• Subcontractor appointment - Working closely with our construction team and help them appoint subcontractors with appropriate BIM scopes as part of their appointment contracts including BIM capability assessment of the project team
• Implementing BIM - Enforce project BIM strategy, 3D/BIM coordination workflows and BEP across the project team and police it on a regular basis to ensure that the project's BIM is developed progressively in the required format
• Audit - At key milestone submission dates review and audit of the project BIM and prepare audit reports for project team leaders
• Meetings - Chair internal and external BIM meetings as BIM Lead for the project
• Reporting - Regular reporting of the project BIM activities to internal and external stakeholders
• Visualisation - Managing/delivering appropriate visuals to team members when needed to support their task or scope of work
• Design - Working closely with the respective design teams to ensure that needs have been understood and incorporated.
• Safety - Support the H&S effort through the model functionality to support safety initiatives on the project.
• Logistics - Working closely with our internal construction team and help planning and construction teams to optimise site logistics through the use of model information
• Clash Management - Interrogation of appointed teams information models to identify any potential design clashes between task teams ensuring that it is logged within the issues register for tracking and resolution
• Commercial - Creating and capturing evidence of BIM values which influence the commercial outcomes on the project. Extract data from the model to contribute directly to support monthly reporting.
• Procurement - Interface with and support the procurement team to package work scopes for inquiry including trade specific BIM scope of works for appointments as well as BIM capability assessment forms etc
• 4D - Interface with the internal planning team to help create construction sequencing the virtual build of the project through various phases incorporating site wide logistics etc
• Asset Management - Collaborate with the client's appointed asset management team and produce and Asset Information Model at handover ensuring all required asset data has successfully been
• Information Management