Building Information Modeling Manager

Wood; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible benefits

Career development

Diversity & inclusion

Onsite working

Global opportunities

Job summary

Wood is seeking a Building Information Modeling (BIM) Manager to join our Houston team and lead the project BIM and digital engineering environment for a nuclear facility. The role drives safe, controlled, and integrated design, construction, commissioning, and handover through strong governance of BIM processes and data management.

You will establish BIM standards, BEP, and CDE governance across disciplines, contractors, and suppliers, ensuring model quality and seamless integration with

Qualifications

• Significant experience implementing BIM on large, complex projects.
• Experience developing and administering BIM Execution Plans (BEP).
• Strong understanding of engineering design processes and information management.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary 3D models and model interfaces across organizations.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain the BIM Execution Plan (BEP) including objectives, workflows, and quality expectations.
• Establish and maintain BIM standards, templates, naming conventions, model structures, and collaboration requirements.
• Define BIM roles, interfaces, and deliverables across disciplines and contractors.
• Ensure BIM activities align with project and Owner/Operator requirements and QA processes.
• Provide governance of the Common Data Environment (CDE) and coordinate with IT and Document Control.
• Establish and govern model federation, reviews, constructability, and issue resolution.
• Monitor model status, revision control, access, and traceability.
• Coordinate BIM information with engineering, scheduling, cost, and other systems.
• Ensure models used for construction and turnover are properly reviewed and authorized.

Skills

BIM management

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

BIM software (Revit, Navisworks)

Job description

Wood is recruiting for a Building Information Modeling Manager to join our team in Houston, TX. The Building Information Modeling (BIM) Manager is responsible for establishing, governing, and overseeing the project BIM and digital engineering environment to support the safe, controlled, and integrated design, construction, commissioning, and handover of a nuclear facility.

The Role

The BIM Manager ensures that BIM processes, information structures, model standards, workflows, and supporting technologies are implemented consistently across engineering disciplines, contractors, suppliers, and other project participants. The role provides leadership for multidisciplinary model The integration and ensures that project models and associated digital information support project execution requirements, configuration management, design assurance, constructability, project controls, commissioning, and eventual turnover to the Owner/Operator.

Our Clients and Projects

Wood’s Operations business delivers solutions to an ever-broadening range of clients across the energy and materials industries globally. We deliver operations, maintenance, modifications, brownfield engineering, asset optimization and management, supporting our clients through the asset lifecycle. We are focused on developing strategic relationships with our clients, providing solutions that deliver efficiency, integrity and reliability.

What We Can Offer

• Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to leaders of industry across Operations Americas sector
• Flexible working arrangements that balance client, team and individual needs, offering onsite working
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice
• Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
• Flexible benefits package that can be adapted to suit your lifestyle
• Commitment to continued professional development through development plans tailored to individual needs and interests
• Global connections with leading industry experts around the world who are shaping the standards of our profession

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain the project BIM Execution Plan (BEP), including BIM objectives, responsibilities, workflows, modeling requirements, information exchanges, and quality expectations.
• Establish and maintain project BIM standards, procedures, templates, naming conventions, model structures, level of development, level of information need, coordinate systems, and model federation requirements.
• Define BIM roles, responsibilities, interfaces, and deliverables across engineering disciplines, contractors, suppliers, and other Appointed Parties.
• Ensure BIM activities align with project and Owner/Operator requirements, engineering procedures, information management requirements, configuration management processes, and nuclear quality assurance requirements.
• Provide governance and oversight of the Common Data Environment (CDE) as it relates to BIM information, coordinating with Engineering, Information Management, Document Control, IT, and Digital Engineering.
• Establish and govern processes for multidisciplinary model federation, model review, design coordination, interference and clash management, constructability review, and issue resolution.
• Ensure appropriate controls are established for model status, revision, approval, access, traceability, and configuration.
• Coordinate integration of BIM information with engineering, document management, project controls, asset information, and other project digital systems where required.
• Establish requirements for model-based information exchanges among the Owner/Operator, engineering organizations, contractors, vendors, fabricators, and construction organizations.
• Coordinate with Engineering and Configuration Management to ensure BIM models reflect approved design information and that changes are incorporated through controlled project processes.
• Ensure models used for construction, fabrication, installation, commissioning, or operational purposes are appropriately reviewed and authorized for their intended use.
• Establish BIM quality assurance and model validation processes, including model audits and compliance reviews.
• Monitor BIM performance and identify nonconformances, data quality issues, interoperability concerns, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Support integration of model information with schedule, quantities, cost, construction planning

Qualifications

At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world’s most critical challenges.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, Digital Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Significant experience implementing BIM on large, complex engineering, infrastructure, energy, or industrial capital projects.
• Demonstrated experience developing and administering BIM Execution Plans and multidisciplinary BIM standards.
• Strong understanding of engineering design processes, configuration management, document and information management, construction execution, and project handover.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary 3D models and managing model interfaces across multiple organizations.
• Knowledge of commonly used BIM authoring, coordination, model review, CDE, and engineering information management platforms.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and communication skills.

About Us

Wood is a global leader in consulting, engineering and operations for the energy and materials sectors. With 33,000 people in around 50 countries, Wood supports clients across the full asset lifecycle, delivering safe, predictable outcomes while enabling resilient operations and a lower carbon future. Wood forms the Energy & Materials pillar of Sidara - a global partnership uniting leading multidisciplinary engineering, design, and project management companies. www.woodgroup.com

Diversity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.