The Role
Lead development and execution of the global BIM roadmap, standards, and maturity. Build and manage BIM team, customize and govern Autodesk Forma environments, ensure interoperability, create and maintain BEP/EIR templates, train stakeholders, support bids and contracts, and drive BIM process and tool improvements aligned with ISO 19650 and customer requirements.
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Job TitleBIM ManagerJob Description
About the Role
- As a BIM Manager I, you will play a strategic role in developing and implementing a road map towards enhancing the organisation’s BIM capability.
- You will collaborate with stakeholders across the business to define the vision, roadmaps, and related features to be delivered for selected BIM uses, ensuring alignment with BIM strategy and business goals.
- You will continuously improve tools and processes by fostering support bases and developing sustainable initiatives.
- Beyond technology, the focus of this role extends to business alignment, partnership, and driving roadmap synchronization. You will report to the Operations Team for Airports North American but participate as an active member in the Global BIM Office.
- This role requires a strong understanding of Building Information Modelling in various industries, global standards, concepts, tools and techniques.
- You will be responsible for optimizing and enhancing solutions and processes that support BIM capabilities on customer projects and making best practices to support standardization and re-usability.
Key Responsibilities:
- You are responsible for defining, implementing BIM standards and BIM ways of working in the organization globally.
- Implementing BIM with required maturity level as per customer requirements in organisation - projects and teams globally.
- Building the BIM team and BIM competence (hiring, reviewing, developing talent) within the North American organisation
- Managing and tailoring the Forma environments for projects in terms of templates, workflows, access and rights management, and customer specific requirements.
- Participating / leading as an expert in discussions related to BIM requirements with customers, consultants, architects and others.
- Leading as consultant for sales, engineering, installation, service teams on BIM related topics.
- Providing Vanderlande compliancy statement against customer BIM requirements.
- Helping set Global and Regional BIM standards and striving to achieve adherence with consistency.
- Driving change management within organisation for BIM ways of working towards required maturity level and BIM dimensions.
- Ensuring interoperability of different software used in the project implementation within Vanderlande, with suppliers and external parties.
- Working as a trainer for BIM Managers, BIM Coordinators, BIM Modelers, and Software solutions such as Revit, Forma and related workflows.
- Supporting & connecting with developers of engineering suite of tools and content builders to assure libraries are set-up and maintained in a BIM compliant way.
- Interfacing with customer’s design team - BIM and IT Managers, and Vanderlande BIM Business Architect and IT team to ensure required software is available and customized properly where necessary.
- Acting as a Vanderlande authority to agree on deviations/non-compliances in project sales phase against Vanderlande BIM standards.
- Handling escalations of BIM relevant topics where other BIM professionals cannot decide.
- Setting-up and maintaining Vanderlande BIM Standards (choice of software, LOD templates, specs, etc…)
- Reviewing contracts, BEP, EIR, RFP, customer BIM Protocols, customer BIM standards during bid phase.
- Creating and maintaining preBEP, BEP, EIR, MIDP, TIDP, Risk Register, Mobilisation Plan templates. Supporting creation and review of such documents on the projects.
- Creating BIM implementation roadmap along with BIM Office team.
- Implementing solution (best practices) for prioritised BIM uses.
- Acting as end point of escalations on technical topics related to BIM.
- Keeping on the top of latest BIM technologies. Identifying and recommending adaptation and improvements in solutions and process to comply with BIM uses (e.g. reality capture, 4D, 5D, CDE, issue management)
About the team:
- The Regional BIM Manager will report within the Engineering group of Project Execution based in Marietta, GA.
- They will coordinate and participate in the Global BIM Office which has a goal to achieve enhanced BIM capabilities, compliancy to customer BIM requirements, BIM maturity level 2 and adherence to ISO 19650 processes.
- This position’s upline consists of Senior Manager Engineering, Director of Engineering, VP of Operations, and Executive Managing Director of North America.
- This role will work with various SMEs and BIM professionals within Vanderlande Customer Centres and Business Units who work as BIM office regional representatives.
Your Profile / Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Engineering, Architect, Construction).
- Minimum 10 years of experience working as a BIM 3D modeler, BIM Coordinator and BIM Manager.
- Experienced in 3D information modelling and BIM related software, e.g. Revit, AutoCAD, Navisworks, Tekla, BIM Collab, BIM 360, Forma (ACC), and other CDEs (Aconex, ProjectWise, Dalux, Procore, Connect, etc.),
- Experienced in working as a BIM Manager in complex and large-scale BIM projects within Autodesk Forma.
- Broad understanding of IT hardware, software solutions and processes. Affinity with software development and implementation. Advanced knowledge and experience with the Autodesk software ecosystem. Experienced in automation & productivity improvement (e.g. various add-ins, Dynamo, Python, etc.)
- Competent in correct and accurate creation and maintenance of BIM documentation, e.g. EIR, preBEP, BEP, etc.
- Strong BIM knowledge, codes, regulation and norms: expert in ISO 19650 standards, NBIMS-US, PAS, LOD standards, IFC, BCF, Uniformat, Master format, BIM protocols, BIM uses and industry best practices.
- Able to establish quality control and quality assurance processes related to BIM workflows and deliverables.
- Is up to date with current technological innovations and has an outlook on future developments with a natural drive for continuous improvement.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience with creating custom training plans. Seasoned trainer who creates and maintains custom training material. Ability to propagate knowledge and skills with capacity to ‘train the trainer’. Adept at coaching project teams and individuals in project-specific challenges.
- Experienced in working in a cross-functional team environment.
- Strong project management and stakeholder management skills. Capable in managing client, other contractors, subcontractors and suppliers on BIM matters.
- Flexibility to travel domestically and internationally up to 15% as required
- Excellent written communication skills with fluency in English.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction or related field.
- Minimum 10 years of experience as a BIM 3D Modeler, BIM Coordinator, and BIM Manager.
- Experience with Revit, AutoCAD, Navisworks, Tekla, BIM Collab, BIM 360, Autodesk Forma and other CDEs (Aconex, ProjectWise, Dalux, Procore, Connect).
- Experience managing large-scale BIM projects within Autodesk Forma.
- Broad understanding of IT hardware/software, affinity with software development and implementation; advanced Autodesk ecosystem knowledge.
- Experience with automation and productivity tools (Dynamo, Python, add-ins).
- Competence in creating and maintaining BIM documentation (EIR, preBEP, BEP, MIDP, TIDP, Risk Register, Mobilisation Plan).
- Expert knowledge of BIM standards and formats (ISO 19650, NBIMS-US, PAS, LOD standards, IFC, BCF, Uniformat, MasterFormat).
- Ability to establish BIM quality control and assurance processes.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication and presentation skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience creating custom training plans and delivering train-the-trainer programs for BIM roles and software.
- Cross-functional team experience and strong project/stakeholder management skills managing clients, contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers on BIM matters.
- Flexibility to travel domestically and internationally up to 15%.
- Excellent written communication skills and fluency in English.
Vanderlande Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with day‑one eligibility in many U.S. roles and employer‑paid protections that reduce out‑of‑pocket exposure. Feedback suggests medical, dental, and vision are a clear strength.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting in the U.S. Feedback suggests this forms a solid pillar of the total rewards package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, sick leave, and paid holidays are characterized as generous relative to peers. Compressed workweek options in some roles further support time away and recovery.
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The Company
What We Do
Vanderlande is the global market leader for future-proof logistic process automation at airports. The company is also a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses and in the parcel market. Vanderlande’s baggage handling systems are capable of moving over 4 billion pieces of baggage around the world per year. Its systems are active in more than 600 airports including 12 of the world’s top 20. More than 52 million parcels are sorted by its systems every day, which have been installed for the world’s leading parcel companies. In addition, many of the largest global e-commerce players and retailers have confidence in Vanderlande’s efficient and reliable solutions. The company focuses on the optimisation of its customers’ business processes and competitive positions. Through close cooperation, it strives for the improvement of their operational activities and the expansion of their logistical achievements. Vanderlande’s extensive portfolio of integrated solutions – innovative systems, intelligent software and life-cycle services – results in the realisation of fast, reliable and efficient automation technology. Established in 1949, Vanderlande has more than 7,500 employees, all committed to moving its customers’ businesses forward at diverse locations on every continent. With a consistently increasing turnover of 1.8 billion euros, it has established a global reputation over the past seven decades as a highly reliable partner for future-proof logistic process automation. Vanderlande was acquired in 2017 by Toyota Industries Corporation, which will help it to continue its sustainable profitable growth. The two companies have a strong strategic match, and the synergies include cross-selling, product innovations, and research and development.
