Senior BIM Manager

Job Description

Mott MacDonald

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.

About the business unit

We help conceive, drive, and implement transport solutions for cities, regions, and asset owners/operators around the globe. From preparing the business case and​ advising on related issues - such as revenue, procurement, and environmental legislation - to delivering the completed infrastructure and helping maintain it. Our planning, engineering, environmental and management skills cover the whole project cycle. We play a major role in developing and delivering the Global Transport Sector Strategy.

Overview of role

Day to day you will lead the BIM delivery of projects, helping to manage concurrent priorities across the teams. You will need to establish the strategy and governance of BIM requirements on behalf of authors, custodians and owners, to enable our projects and clients to meet their various business requirements.

Projects may vary from major design and build commissions to a portfolio of smaller advisory projects.

Responsibilties

• Providing technical advice to enhance BIM delivery standards and functional capability according to ISO 19650.
• Acting as the intermediary between designers, clients and architects so that projects remain efficient, coordinated within a collaborative framework.
• Ensuring that BIM execution plans are produced and maintained. On occasions you will peer review the BEPs of other projects.
• Supporting and auditing the project team and flagging non-compliances.
• Producing monthly reports for senior managers, to identify and measure BIM implementation.
• Supporting the career development, coaching and mentoring of a team of staff.
• Shape digital project delivery using both our internal and emerging tools to drive continuous improvements.
• Regularly connecting with our Clients as you seek to develop improved solutions to their challenges.
• Working alongside the project management teams providing insights from project information and supporting the ongoing strategic development of project delivery.

We offer the opportunity to take a leading role in the way we work at Mott MacDonald and change things for the better. As a BIM Manager you will have the control and support to define and implement better ways of working and demonstrate the impact you have made. You will work alongside the management teams with the responsibility to drive project delivery and your own career through a dynamic and evolving area of the business as we strive to keep up with technology.

As part of this role, you will have the opportunity to;

• Work with great people, build strong teams and develop others to reach their potential.
• Grow your professional network locally and globally and be a leading light within the division.
• Learn from others on a wide variety of local and international projects.
• Deliver better solutions directly to Clients and experience positive change to achieve personal and customer satisfaction.

Essential

• Responsible for BIM implementation within the account.
• Required to build a strong and open network across the account to break down silos and improve knowledge sharing.
• Work closely with existing and new projects to elicit information requirements, develop processes and work directly with clients.
• Report to the information management board and work closely with other BIM managers and account leaders across the division.
• Strong communication skills
• Good knowledge of infrastructure projects and a general technical ability
• Be open minded, assertive, cooperative, strong sense of team and vision driven.
• Hands on and practical insight of the latest BIM and digital IM processes and tools.
• Good technical knowledge of a range of software platforms, databases and tools.
• Relevant BIM experience
• Experience of operating asset management against ISO 19650-3 or PAS1192-3 (Information Management using Building Information Modelling)
• Experience of the design, construction, and delivery of infrastructure projects
• Experience of managing BIM and digital information element of multi-disciplinary projects (delivery and operation)
• Experience using authoring software such as Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD & Bentley
• Experience using collaboration software like SharePoint (CDE) & Projectwise
• Awareness of using Data visualisation software like Power BI
• Commercial awareness, as well as the capacity to modify strategy and technical needs to meet client/project/practice objectives.
• Confident leading and working as part of a team with good interpersonal skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Must be a self-starter, autonomous but able to work effectively with the wider team.
• Ability to communicate with a variety of different audiences, both technical and non-technical to lead project & regional transformation forward.
• Be driven to pursue continued education in Digital & BIM and connect with wider internal and external industry community.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

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