BIM Lead

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the overall BIM strategy, governance, and 3D model coordination throughout the project lifecycle for large-scale capital projects.
• Establish and maintain BIM standards, workflows, protocols, and quality requirements across multidisciplinary project teams.
• Develop and manage the 3D model review, approval, and stage-gate process to ensure design quality, compliance, and project delivery objectives are met.
• Coordinate design reviews and model integration activities with engineering, design, construction, and operational stakeholders.
• Facilitate model review sessions, driving stakeholder alignment, feedback resolution, and timely decision-making.
• Collaborate with discipline leads to develop and coordinate utility, service, and infrastructure routing strategies.
• Review and validate innovative or non-standard design solutions, ensuring alignment with project requirements and operational needs.
• Oversee the integration, coordination, and quality assurance of BIM deliverables from consultants, contractors, suppliers, and equipment vendors.
• Lead multidisciplinary clash detection and model coordination efforts to identify, resolve, and mitigate design and constructability issues.
• Ensure project designs incorporate best practices for constructability, operability, maintainability, safety, and long-term asset performance.
• Support project teams by fostering collaboration across engineering, operations, facilities, commissioning, and end-user functions.
• Monitor BIM deliverables to ensure compliance with project standards, regulatory requirements, and execution plans.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or a related discipline.
• Proven experience serving as a BIM Lead or BIM Manager on large-scale greenfield capital projects within the pharmaceutical, life sciences, advanced manufacturing, semiconductor, or highly regulated industrial sectors.
• Minimum 15 years of experience delivering complex engineering and construction projects, with significant involvement in design, engineering, construction, and project execution phases.
• Demonstrated expertise in BIM execution planning, multidisciplinary model coordination, clash resolution, and digital project delivery.
• Strong understanding of facility design principles, including manufacturing environments, laboratories, utilities, cleanrooms, process systems, and supporting infrastructure.
• Experience leading geographically dispersed project teams and coordinating with engineering consultants, contractors, equipment vendors, and owner stakeholders.
• Proficiency in industry-standard BIM and 3D modeling platforms such as Autodesk Revit, Navisworks, BIM 360/ACC, and related digital delivery tools.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills, with the ability to drive alignment across diverse project teams.
• Familiarity with GMP-regulated environments, pharmaceutical facility design, and large capital project delivery would be highly advantageous.

Additional Information

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