Graduate Electrical Engineer

Stantec; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced Senior BIM/CAD Lead to oversee the strategic development and maintenance of CAD and BIM standards. This role involves managing a team of modellers and ensuring high-quality outputs across various engineering disciplines. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong leadership, BIM expertise, and the ability to collaborate across UK and international teams, aligning with ISO 19650 standards. This is a full-time, hands-on position pivotal to project delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience in overseeing CAD and BIM standards.
• Demonstrated leadership in BIM processes.
• Ability to coordinate teams across regions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the creation and governance of design standards.
• Manage BIM/CAD modelling work tasks between teams.
• Ensure delivery of high-quality BIM outputs.

Skills

Leadership

BIM expertise

CAD standards development

Strong communication

Collaboration

Tools

Autodesk Revit

Civil 3D

Inventor

Job description

Overview

We are seeking an experienced and forward‑thinking Senior BIM/CAD Lead to oversee the strategic development, implementation and maintenance of CAD and BIM standards across the Stantec Energy & Resources UK business. The role will lead the creation, governance and continuous improvement of multi‑platform design standards, ensuring consistency and quality across a wide range of engineering disciplines and software environments.

Responsibilities

This role will lead the creation, governance and continuous improvement of multi‑platform design standards, ensuring consistency and quality across a wide range of engineering disciplines and software environments. In addition to setting strategy, the role will be hands‑on in managing and coordinating BIM/CAD modelling work tasks between UK teams and our offshore design centre in Pune, with flexibility to undertake model authoring when required. The successful candidate will also provide leadership to a team of 3D BIM modellers, ensuring the accuracy, consistency and efficiency of 3D modelling workflows using Autodesk Revit, Civil 3D, Inventor and other relevant platforms. The position plays a pivotal role in supporting complex projects across Waterpower & Dams, Transmission & Distribution, Renewable Energy, Nuclear, Waste & Generation and Minerals & Resources, ensuring delivery of high‑quality BIM outputs aligned with project requirements, client expectations and industry standards. You will provide support through the bid, planning & mobilisation, delivery and close stages from a BIM viewpoint, develop the BIM Execution Plan and subsequent Master Information Delivery Plans and Task Information Delivery Plans, ensuring everything aligns with the Exchange Information Requirements. You will work in collaboration with the Information Management team to establish Common Data Environments, standards and procedures to support digital delivery in accordance with ISO 19650, oversee planning and managing document and information management systems with review and approval workflows while supporting the design and modelling team through the delivery phase, providing support, guidance, checks and reviews of progress, quality and compliance.

Qualifications

Self‑motivated and responsible for supporting the team across the UK and international regions, including global design centres. Demonstrates a real passion in BIM and can influence and support others to see the value of adoption. Strong communication skills, collaboration with multidisciplinary engineers in local and remote offices. Proficient in establishing Common Data Environments and aligning BIM Execution Plans with ISO 19650 standards.