Principal BIM Lead

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East Midlands

Hybrid

GBP 70,000 - 90,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

28 days' holidays
Private health care
Flexible & hybrid working
Group personal pension
Life assurance
Parental Leave entitlements
Professional memberships paid

Job summary

COWI is seeking a Principal BIM Lead to join its Digital Delivery team across UK offices. You will advise internal and external stakeholders, enforce BIM standards, and coordinate multidisciplinary models ensuring full integration.

You will guide automation and scripting to streamline workflows and contribute to project success. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience with Revit, Tekla, and OpenBuildings Designer on UK infrastructure projects, strong leadership, and the ability to train

Qualifications

  • Experience delivering digital production, compliance and handover stages.

Responsibilities

  • Driving the production and delivery of high-quality 3D models and 2D drawings in accordance with standards and project-specific requirements.

Skills

Enhanced communication
Team collaboration
Leadership
Problem solving
Attention to detail

Education

HNC or higher in Civil Engineering
EngTech (MICE or TMIET)

Tools

Python
C#
Dynamo
Grasshopper
Revit
Tekla
Bentley OpenBuildings Designer
ProjectWise
Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC)

Job description

Principal BIM Lead

Glasgow/Derby/York/London/Bristol

Permanent Position

Office/Home Hybrid Working

Do you want to join one of the most technical design consultancies in Scotland? Can you produce high calibre models and drawings? Are you experienced on infrastructure projects? Then join COWI, to be outstanding together.

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 from our offices in Glasgow, Derby, York, London, or Bristo, you'll 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.

Your key responsibilities will be:
  • 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 perform 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-mindset towards quality.
Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.

The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.

On top of that, you’ll have:
  • 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 and comprehensive understanding of working with and the application of multiple software platforms (including Revit, Tekla and/or Bentley OpenBuildings Designer) on UK infrastructure projects, especially in 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 - delivering Projects using the framework provided by ISO19650) 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.
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 support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.

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 the Nordic region, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 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:
  • 28days' holidayplus all UKbank and public holidays
  • Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities
  • Private health care, for you anda contribution from you foryour 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
  • Maternity Leave: 1-20weeks full pay, 21-26 weeks half pay, 27-39Statutory (SMP) 40-52 weeks unpaid (eligibility criteria will apply)
  • Paternity Leave: 12 weeks full pay (eligibility criteria will apply)
Optional benefits include:
  • Cycle-to-work scheme
  • Electric vehicle lease
  • Corporate gym membership
  • Annual Rail card (available for under 30s)
Got more questions?

If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to Abhinav Khanna at abkn@COWI.COM. 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.

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