Senior BIM Manager

Location/s: London or Croydon, UK
Recruiter contact: Alice Roostan

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. 

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual. 

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

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 the role

Are you passionate about delivering infrastructure projects that have a positive impact on society? Do you thrive on tackling complex challenges head-on? If so, join our dynamic Information Management team, where we bring together a unique combination of skills to drive meaningful change in the infrastructure industry. 

We recognise the inherent challenges that come with major delivery projects, which is why we leverage a diverse skill set encompassing delivery engineering, project management, and coding/development. By combining this expertise, we are at the forefront of tackling complex challenges and creating innovative solutions. As part of our growth, we are looking for a Senior BIM Manager to join our team to support implementation of the latest digital design delivery methods and improved ways of working within our division. We are looking for someone with a deep inherent knowledge of technical standards and production methods but that can also combine this with astute leadership and management skills to be able to drive change throughout our major projects. Our team are already working with major clients across the UK and North America, focusing on delivering innovative digital project delivery solutions to address our client’s needs. We have a proven track record in providing exemplary information management solutions, which have won numerous global awards.

Delivering projects and providing leadership:

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. As part of your responsibilities, you will be:

• Providing technical advice to enhance BIM delivery standards and functional capability according to ISO 19650
• Acting as the intermediary between designers, clients and the wider information management team so that projects remain efficient and coordinated within a collaborative framework
• Participate in the production and maintenance of BIM Execution Plans, providing expert input, supporting audits as needed to ensure compliance and/or flag remediate actions
• Producing monthly reports for senior managers, to identify and measure BIM implementation
• Proven asset information delivery experience to support the delivery of compliant, structured, and validated digital information across design, construction, and handover phases
• Lead information management workflows aligned with ISO 19650, ensuring that all digital and asset data supports long term operational needs and integrates with client FM/CAFM systems
• Overseeing the production of project models, documentation, and Asset Information Models (AIMs) that meet Employer’s Information Requirements (EIR), Asset Information Requirements (AIR), and industry best practice. · Supporting 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 into project information and supporting the ongoing strategic development of project delivery

Candidate specification

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 Senior 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 management teams with a responsibility to drive project delivery and your own career through a dynamic and evolving area of the business as we strive to remain aligned with evolving digital technologies. 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 

Summary:

• Forward thinking, ambitious, pro-active. Self-starter, autonomous but able to work with the wider team
• Responsible to contribute to excellence in 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 

We'd also like to you have:

• Minimum HNC
• Confident leading and working as part of a team with strong interpersonal skills and able to communicate with a variety of different audiences to lead project & regional transformation
• Good knowledge of infrastructure projects, particularly within the Railway industry 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, with good technical knowledge of a range of software platforms, databases, and tools
• Demonstrable BIM experience
• 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) and 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
• Be driven to pursue continued education in Digital & BIM and connect with wider internal and external industry community

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Agile working  

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

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.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

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.

Employee Ownership

• Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
• Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
• As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long-term impact and contribution.
• Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future.
• For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.

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.

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.

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.