Principal BIM Lead

COWI

Limerick

Hybrid

EUR 90,000 - 120,000

Full time

7 hours ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration package
Flexible and hybrid working conditions
24 days annual leave
Mentoring system in experience Ireland
CPD and training opportunities
Sports and social events

Job summary

COWI is seeking a Principal BIM Lead to drive digital delivery for infrastructure projects across Ireland and the UK. You will lead the production of 3D models and 2D drawings to COWI standards, coordinate multidisciplinary work, and mentor staff while advancing automated workflows and data interfaces.

You will work from Ireland offices and collaborate with clients, partners and internal teams to ensure compliant BIM execution and efficient project delivery across the lifecycle.

Qualifications

  • Previous experience supporting digital production, compliance and handover stages.
  • Experience coordinating with multidisciplinary teams and integrating designs.
  • Knowledge of interfacing software and automation to improve workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Drive production and delivery of high-quality 3D models and 2D drawings per standards.
  • Support multi-disciplinary models and libraries development.
  • Coordinate multidisciplinary teams ensuring fully integrated models.
  • Provide technical support across project lifecycles.
  • Develop and run automated scripts/tools to improve workflows.
  • Train and mentor colleagues and junior staff.

Skills

Python
C#
Dynamo
Grasshopper
Revit
Coordination
Communication

Education

HNC or higher in Civil Engineering or related field
EngTech (MICE or TMIET) professionally qualified

Tools

ProjectWise
Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC)
Revit
Tekla
Bentley OpenBuildings Designer

Job description

Do you want to join one of the most technical design consultancies in UK & Ireland? Can you produce high caliber 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 Dublin, Cork, Limerick or Galway, 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 & Ireland 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 & Ireland BIM Project Delivery Roles.
  • Thought leader, with a drive and vision to support COWI UK & Ireland 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 & Ireland, 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:
  • Competitive remuneration package, commensurate with experience
  • Flexible and hybrid working conditions
  • 24 days annual leave
  • A highly valued mentoring system in one of Ireland’s most experienced consultancies
  • Training and continued professional development CPD
  • Active Sports and social and annual summer outing
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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