Building Information Modeling Manager

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.

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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

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

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.