Building Information Modeling Coordinator

Job Description

• Business area: Building
• Country: United Kingdom
• Office: Kegworth
• Position length: Permanent

NIRAS is an international consulting company with activities within Building and Infrastructure, Process industry, Utilities, Environment and Nature, Climate, Energy, Planning and Development Consulting. Our 2400 specialists solve the challenges of our customers based on our values - we listen, we learn, we deliver. We believe that cooperation, knowledge sharing and creativity are the way to create the best value for our customers. We have a turnover of approx. DKK 2 billion from offices in more than 30 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. NIRAS is an equal opportunity employer with a focus on the SDG goals. We value diversity in all its forms and welcome and appreciate applications from all qualified candidates.

SDA Design Consultants, a part of the NIRAS group, is a multi-disciplinary civil and structural engineering consultancy based in Kegworth, Derbyshire. The firm offers civil and structural engineering design services to a range of clients, project types and values. Due to increasing project commissions and appointments, the firm seeks to appoint a full-time BIM Coordinator to support the project delivery team.

The BIM coordinator will provide technical support directly to project team members and report to the project lead, providing feedback on the team’s requirements for training, workflows or content.

Our ambition

NIRAS is a global project-focused organisation with a high level of engineering expertise, and has an expanding international presence with over 2600 employees in 40 offices in 21 countries.

We deliver world-class solutions to ensure sustainable development in our society to benefit the next generations. Our leaders and employees focus on excellent project delivery and boosting our digital journey with our customers to sustain our business development.

Why you should join the NIRAS Group

NIRAS acknowledges that our employees are key to our success. We pride ourselves on providing a balanced professional and social working environment, and there are always competent colleagues with whom you can share knowledge and be inspired. You will be part of a culture with plenty of opportunities to develop personally and professionally.

Furthermore, you will be part of a team where commitment, empowerment, and high professionalism characterise your colleagues. We have a great social environment, and the Scandinavian leadership culture is the foundation for what we do. Our values ​​- we listen, we learn, we deliver - are the starting point for how we think and work, and it is crucial for us to deliver high quality support to our business.

At NIRAS, we put human development and, not least, the environment and climate at the forefront. We incorporate UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals in our projects, and strive to provide consultancy and solutions which will also benefit the next generation.

About the job

Core responsibilities will include:

• Initial project setup and attending project kick-off meetings to advise on BIM implementation
• Maintaining project BIM models and associated project BIM support documents
• Performing BIM coordination exercises
• Contributing towards negotiations of BIM deliverables in contracts
• Training teams in relevant workflows and software packages both internally and externally
• Provide ongoing support, troubleshooting and guidance for BIM workflows and standards
• Monitoring the performance and quality levels of BIM models
• Ensuring BIM models satisfy the prescribed project-specific BIM requirements and keep to BIM standards
• Author and maintain project BEP and collaborative documents to ensure effective communication between consultants
• Managing consultant information and ensuring compliance with BEP and project standards
• Carrying out clash detection and chair / run clash detection meetings, reporting findings and providing possible solutions
• Support the creation of in house standards and training to support various teams across the business
• Identifying opportunities to improve BIM workflows in correlation with all aspects of the practice

About you

• Minimum 3 years of experience as a BIM coordinator for large scale multidisciplinary projects
• Knowledge and experience of Autodesk Revit and related software and plugins
• Knowledge and experience of Solibri or similar for model checking and clash detection
• Knowledge and experience of BIM360
• Knowledge of Dynamo is highly beneficial
• Knowledge and experience of legacy CAD applications and practices
• Experience in delivering projects to BIM standards with validation and QA processes
• Familiarity with common data environment practices is beneficial
• Experience with large scale/complex international projects is beneficial
• Familiarity with relevant standards PAS1192 and ISO19650
• Extremely technically competent
• Highly organised with attention to detail
• Able to motivate and influence people
• Able to present ideas and workflows both graphically and verbally

30 Apr 2023

About the Organization

NIRAS is an international, multidisciplinary consultancy company with over 1200 employees located in offices in Europe, Asia and Africa. Our business is to provide impartial consultancy within the fields of construction, infrastructure, public utilities, environment, energy, planning, socioeconomics, management, IT and development consulting. Our domestic market is the Baltic region where we work from companies in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Estonia, Russia and Ukraine. We have completed projects in over 180 countries and have companies and offices in a number of countries in Europe, Asia and Africa in order to support our international projects. NIRAS was founded in 1956 by graduate engineers Jørgen Kristian Nielsen and Konrad Rauschenberger. Today, NIRAS is one of the leading consultancy companies in Denmark. We are not attached to contractors, manufacturers or suppliers and are a member of the Danish Association of Consulting Engineers (FRI) and the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC). Ownership The shares in the NIRAS group are owned by the NIRAS Foundation as well as management and employees at NIRAS. The main objective of the NIRAS Foundation as the owner of NIRAS Group A/S is to promote the company’s growth and continuance both in financial terms and in relation to staff policy and desirable development.