Required Experience 8 - 12 years' experience in Rail infrastructure
Job Category Digital Railways
Posted 25 Oct 2026
Full Job Description
Job Description
WSP is looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior BIM Technician - Civils to support the design and delivery of Lineside Rail Infrastructure Projects & Level Crossing Projects in UK-GCC T&I Team.
The candidate to have expertise in Building Information Modeling (BIM) and CAD design, ensuring accurate, coordinated, and efficient design outputs that meet project standards and client requirements.
Responsibilities
MicroStation Experience
- Proven ability to produce accurate 2D rail-civils drawings to UK standards.
- Experience developing and checking 2D and 3D models for multidisciplinary rail projects.
- Familiar with applying CAD QA processes, CRA-V practices and structured drawing checks.
- Able to work from survey data, topographical information and other discipline inputs.
- Work through full CAD lifecycle (site data - model - drawing - QA)
3D / BIM Experience
- Capable of creating 3D MicroStation models (track slab, walkways, structural elements).
- Able to generate long sections, cross sections and cut-through views to show design changes, ground variation and asset interfaces.
- Clash detection awareness - able to identify clashes visually within the 3D environment (e.g., structures vs gauge, walkway vs equipment zones, civils vs signalling), supporting coordinated design reviews.
- Experience supporting BIM-aligned workflows, including multidisciplinary model coordination.
- Confident navigating ProjectWise, including check-in/out, version control and workflow management - correct assurance process from Drawer- Designer-Checker-Approver and setting up Document Sets
- Ensures compliance with naming conventions, metadata requirements and document control processes.
- Experienced issuing and managing CAD models and drawings within ProjectWise for UK and international rail projects
Rail Design Experience
- Base understanding of rail-civils requirements, including key design principles such as gauges, clearances, heights, offsets, access/maintainability needs, structural constraints, and how these influence lineside civils, stations, depots and level crossing design.
- 3D modelling of UTX / URX Designs
- Understanding process of Technical Queries, how they are raised and what input from CAD would be required (sketches, checks, dimensions etc)
- Coordination with Multi Discipline teams like MEP, Architectural, E&P, Telecoms etc.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree Civil / Diploma in Civil Engineering or equivalent industry experience.
- 8 - 12 years' experience in Rail infrastructure
- Current competencies with relevant Rail Authorities (e.g. Network Rail, London Underground, etc).
- Ability to work on 3D MicroStation, AECOsim / OpenBuilding Designer, AutoCAD, Revit in adherence to defined CAD & BIM Standards.
- Ability to build strong working relationships.
- Ability to work well in a team environment as well as being a self-starter able to work unsupervised.
Source
Original vacancy published byWSP.Please refer to the official employerwebsite for current information.