As a member of Garver’s growing Water Design Center, the Building Information Modeling (BIM) Project Leader will be responsible for leading the drafting and design for projects while managing and mentoring a design squad of BIM Designers and Technicians. The BIM Project Leader will also be responsible for leading the production of 3D Revit models and maintaining CAD/BIM standards for Garver’s Water Design Center. The BIM Project Leader will collaborate with multiple teams of engineers, designers, and technicians to produce drawings on various Water Business Line (WBL) projects.
This role in the Water Design Center is one that is central to project delivery through our many offices and utilizes the latest BIM technology, predominantly Revit software. Typical projects in design include process mechanical, structural, building mechanical, and architectural designs for water and wastewater treatment plants.
Primary responsibilities of the BIM Project Leader will include:
- Serve as the primary BIM point of contact for assigned projects
- Lead the coordination between project team disciplines (civil, process, structural, mechanical, and electrical)
- Drawing Sheet List (both excel and Revit)
- Production of compiled PDF’s for project milestones from all disciplines
- Design changes where necessary
- Clash detection and resolution between disciplines
- Exporting of Revit files
- Civil site plan linking
- Facilitate P&ID design with all process modeling.
- Lead the development of 3D Revit models
- Organization of facilities in different models as project requires.
- Coordination of models with sub-consultants as needed.
- Maintaining the shared coordinate system.
- Owner of secured workset(s) for levels, grids, and scope boxes.
- Lead the organization of facility plans, sections, and details in Revit for construction documents.
- Attend project meetings as required.
- Work closely with Design Phase Managers to maintain scope, budget, and schedule to execute projects.
- Maintaining strong communication with engineers and project managers to ensure timely delivery of projects and avoid any potential project conflicts.
- Acknowledge and coordinate design issues with disciplines.
- Arranging necessary resources for file sharing and communication to effectively share design files across the company or with clients, sub consultants, and contractors.
- Coordinate BIM resources for assigned projects.
- Develop markups working with the engineers.
- Distribute and coordinate workload with your assigned BIM Designers and Technicians.
- Review the work of your assigned BIM Designers and Technicians and serve as their mentor.
- Provide thorough review of every plan sheet for assigned projects to ensure all projects adhere to company CAD/BIM standards, prior to engineers’ review
Requirements:
- 10 or more years of computer aided drafting and design experience with an architectural &/or engineering design team
- Extensive experience in the use of BIM software (Revit)
- Experience using MSOffice products, including Excel, Outlook, and Word
- General understanding of various building types
- Experience with architectural, industrial and commercial designs
- Experience with multi-discipline CAD designs (i.e. piping, structural, electrical, I&C, controls, mechanical, HVAC, process)
- Good communication and training skills (verbal and written)
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Understanding of water or wastewater treatment specific equipment
- Experience using Bluebeam software
- Experience with file sharing protocols and other methods of file transfer
- Associate’s degree or higher with a focus on CAD/BIM
- Experience with Civil 3D
- Experience with point clouds and point cloud processing with ReCap
- Experience with BIM360 file sharing software
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Garver offers its employees programs such as company-paid professional memberships, company support for industry licenses and continuing education opportunities that foster a progressive atmosphere. Garver provides the tools, resources, and environment to develop leaders, stimulate ideas, and accomplish projects. By offering highly competitive salary packages, attractive benefits, and a comprehensive wellness program; Garver walks the talk when it comes to work-life balance.
Founded in 1919, Garver is an employee-owned engineering, planning, and environmental services firm focused on aviation, transportation, buildings, federal, water and wastewater services; surveying; advisory services; and construction engineering and inspection. In the top 100 of Engineering News-Record's Top 500 Design Firms list, with more than 1,300 employees, Garver has a people-first culture that drives innovative, client-first service and is consistently recognized as a best firm to work for by Zweig Group. Learn how Garver invests in people and places they call home at GarverUSA.com.
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