BIM Technical Manager

SLB; Shreveport (LA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SLB New Energy & Industrial (NEI) seeks an experienced BIM Manager to lead BIM/VDC for its Data Center project portfolio in North America. You will coordinate MEP models created by design consultants and vendors, ensure constructability, and align with client requirements across multiple sites.

In the near term you will perform hands-on coordination while hiring and scaling a distributed BIM team, with up to 50% travel to project sites in the US and Canada to support coordination, clash

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, Architecture, Engineering, or related field.
• Equivalent experience may be considered.
• 10–15 years in BIM/VDC on commercial or industrial construction; data center experience preferred.
• Proficiency with Revit and Navisworks; ability to work across multiple client CDEs (ACI/BIM 360, Procore).
• Hands-on MEP coordination and clash detection on large, systems‑intensive projects.
• Experience leading or mentoring BIM staff; managing distributed or multi-site teams is a plus.
• Exposure to prefabrication/modular delivery and fast-track schedules typical of data center work.
• Strong understanding of construction sequencing and how model data supports field execution.
• Autodesk certifications and/or VDC credentials preferred.
• Familiarity with reality capture and coordination tools (e.g., Recap, point clouds) a plus.
• Experience with modular/prefabricated MEP delivery and vendor-engineered packages a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Candidates must be legally able to work and reside in the US without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Provide centralized BIM/VDC leadership and accountability across all Data Center projects.
• Ensure effective MEP model coordination, clash resolution, and constructability analysis.
• Maintain alignment between trade partners, engineering contractors, vendors, and client models.
• Identify modularization and prefabrication opportunities to improve constructability and schedule.
• Build, staff, and scale a distributed BIM coordination team across North America.
• Define and maintain Data Center BIM standards, templates, and workflows.
• Hire, onboard, train, and manage BIM coordinators across multiple locations.
• Establish LOD requirements and model-sharing protocols; operate with client CDEs (ACCloud/BIM 360, Procore).
• Lead coordination meetings with partners, engineers, and field teams; drive clash resolution to closure.
• Support prefabrication and modularization central to mission-critical delivery.

Skills

BIM leadership

Coordination

Communication

Mentoring

Team building

Education

Bachelor's degree in construction management, architecture, engineering or related field

Tools

Autodesk Revit

Navisworks

Autodesk Construction Cloud / BIM 360

Procore

Job description

Come join us at SLB New Energy & Industrial and be part of a global company driving energy innovation for a balanced planet SLB New Energy & Industrial (NEI) is a division of SLB; our portfolio includes ventures in carbon capture and sequestration, geothermal power, energy storage, sustainable battery-grade lithium, hydrogen and Data center infrastructure solutions. To know more about NEI please visit https://www.slb.com/about/driving-energy-innovation/scaling-new-energy-systems

Our Data Center infrastructure solutions business provides Innovative and cost-effective solutions that enable building faster, smarter and more resilient data centers. Our modular infrastructure solutions scale AI and cloud computing capacity while minimizing capital risk and deployment delays. From design and supply chain to commissioning and operations, by standardizing components and relocating labor to controlled offsite environments, we help reduce costs, improve lead times, and lower construction risk while ensuring quality and global repeatability. To know more about our Data Centers Infrastructure solutions please visit https://www.slb.com/products-and-services/scaling-new-energy-systems/data-center-infrastructure-solutions

SLB is seeking a highly qualified and motivated BIM Manager to lead the BIM/VDC of the Data Center project portfolio, acting as the single point of accountability for all BIM and model-coordination matters across active projects. Reporting to the Technical Manager, the BIM Manager takes MEP models produced by design consultants, equipment manufacturers, and other third parties and performs model coordination, clash resolution, and constructability analysis to deliver constructible, well-sequenced mission-critical systems for multiple hyperscale data center clients.

In the near term, the BIM Manager performs hands-on coordination on active projects while hiring, building, and managing a distributed team of BIM coordinators across North America as the function scales.

This position requires regular travel (up to 50%) to project sites across the United States and Canada to support coordination, clash resolution, and field execution.

Job Summary

• Provide centralized BIM/VDC leadership and accountability across all Data Center projects.
• Ensure effective MEP model coordination, clash resolution, and constructability analysis of models provided by design consultants, equipment manufacturers, and other third parties.
• On all BIM matters, maintain alignment between trade partners, engineering contractors, vendors, and client-issued models.
• Contribute to the team's identification of modularization and prefabrication opportunities that improve constructability, schedule, and repeatability.
• Build, staff, and scale a distributed BIM coordination team that delivers consistent quality across projects.

Roles And Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the Data Center portfolio BIM standards, ensuring adherence to BIM Execution Plans (BXP), templates, naming conventions, and workflows.
• Hire, onboard, train, and manage BIM coordinators across multiple North America locations.
• Establish Level of Detail requirements and model-sharing protocols; operate within and adapt to each client\'s Common Data Environment (e.g., Autodesk Construction Cloud / BIM 360, Procore) and consultant standards.
• Evaluate and implement BIM/VDC tools and emerging technology (reality capture, digital twin, automation).
• Partner with preconstruction, project management, field, and MEP/prefab teams to align BIM with schedule and cost goals.
• Run MEP model coordination, clash detection, and constructability analysis on models provided by design consultants, equipment manufacturers, and other third parties, coordinating mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection systems.
• Lead coordination meetings with trade partners, engineers, and field teams, driving clash resolution to closure.
• Manage federated models, model health, and quality across the project lifecycle, integrating models issued by consultants, vendors, and clients along with reality-capture data.
• Support prefabrication and modularization opportunities central to mission-critical delivery (MEP racks, skids, electrical rooms, containment assemblies).
• Own model-based deliverables: coordination drawings, quantities, 4D sequencing, and as-built/handover data where required.

Qualifications And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, Architecture, Engineering, or related field. Equivalent experience may be considered.
• 10-15 years in BIM/VDC on commercial or industrial construction. Experience on mission-critical or data center is strongly preferred.
• Proficiency with Autodesk Revit and Navisworks, and the ability to work across multiple client Common Data Environments (Autodesk Construction Cloud / BIM 360, Procore) is required
• Demonstrated hands-on MEP coordination and clash detection on large, systems-intensive projects
• Prior experience leading or mentoring BIM staff; experience managing distributed or multi-site teams a plus.
• Exposure to prefabrication/modular project delivery and to fast-track schedules typical of data center work.
• Strong understanding of construction sequencing and how model data supports field execution.
• Autodesk certifications and/or VDC credentials are preferred.
• Familiarity with reality capture and coordination tools (e.g., Recap, point clouds) is a plus.
• Experience with modular/prefabricated MEP delivery and vendor-engineered packages is a plus
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• Candidates must be able to legally work and reside in the US, without sponsorship.