BIM Lead Dubai

Role overview

Project BIM and digital workflows

• Lead digital workflow strategy, objectives, and project data management with project digital coordinators and digital design leaders.
• Coordinate project-specific BIM issues across office and firm-wide scopes and offices.
• Initiate project BIM models and drawings to standards; support model coordination, process management, and project objectives.
• Advise on LOD matrices, BIM management plans, and coordination with project teams, disciplines, and consultants.
• Support BIM staff and project teams producing models, drawings, and project documentation.
• Monitor BIM content quality and coordinate with project leaders to ensure consistent project outputs.

Standards, tools, and collaboration

• Contribute to tracking project specifications, material lists, and energy, water, and carbon use.
• Implement BIM standards, guidelines, best practices, tools, and software across teams and offices.
• Develop training materials and conduct regular training on BIM standards, tools, and workflows.
• Monitor project compliance with BIM standards and manage BIM resources with the Digital Practice team.
• Lead coordination and standards meetings; work with software vendors, consultants, and BIM managers.
• Evaluate productivity improvements, perform quality assurance testing of new tools, and advance innovative BIM workflows.

Leadership responsibilities

• Support project BIM staffing, project plans, fee proposals, and BIM-related marketing proposal statements.
• Direct, train, and mentor BIM specialists, BIM technologists, and project team members.
• Collaborate across offices on standardization, efficient workflows, deliverable quality, training, and new technology adoption.
• Develop firm-wide BIM services and strategies and foster innovation and collaboration across offices and disciplines.
• Promote sustainable strategies, maintain design-team relationships, and communicate the firm's work.

Minimum qualifications

• Professional degree in Architecture or a related field.
• At least 8 years of focused AEC experience applying and developing digital tools and processes, including Revit on large-scale building projects.
• Demonstrated ability to create and coordinate complex BIM/Revit models and drawing packages at multiple detail levels and project stages.
• Strong supervisory, leadership, communication, organizational, planning, and task-distribution skills.
• Knowledge of architectural practice, building systems, engineering principles, construction, and building codes.
• Expertise in BIM and digital tools including Revit, ACC/BIM 360, Dynamo, Navisworks, Revizto, AutoCAD, scripting, Grasshopper, and Rhino.
• Proficiency in parametric and rendering software, Adobe Suite, Google Workspace, and data visualization.
• Familiarity with sustainable strategies and principles; LEED or another green-building accreditation is preferred.

Digital design fields

• Knowledge of computational design, performance analysis and simulation, visualization, manufacturing, and robotics.
• Experience with energy modeling, life-cycle assessment tools, and appropriate scripting languages.

Portfolio submission

• A one-file PDF portfolio of 10–20 pages, no larger than 5 MB, is required for design and project management positions; applications without work samples will not be reviewed.

Benefits and development

• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability, and life and accident insurance.
• Flexible schedules, paid family leave and vacation, backup care, and an employee assistance program are available.
• Professional development includes reimbursement for professional licenses, renewals, and exam fees, as well as in-house career development.