Job Description

BIM Lead / Senior Coordinator

About Us

Arcadis is the world's leading company in sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy for natural and built assets. With over 36,000 professionals in 70+ countries, we are united in improving quality of life and solving the world's most complex challenges.

Location/s: Based in our Little Island, Cork offices. This is an office-based role with hybrid opportunity.

Role description

Reporting to the BIM Manager, the BIM Lead / Senior Coordinator will support the delivery of multidisciplinary life sciences and pharmaceutical projects from our Cork office. The successful candidate will take ownership of BIM coordination and delivery on complex projects, while providing practical support and direction to BIM Coordinators, modellers and project design teams.

The role will act as the primary BIM point of contact on assigned projects, working closely with Project Managers, Design Leads, engineering disciplines, clients, vendors and external stakeholders. The post-holder will combine hands-on technical BIM capability with the leadership and judgement needed to maintain coordinated, compliant and delivery-focused project environments.

The post-holder is expected to demonstrate the Arcadis Core Values at all times.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead BIM coordination and delivery across multidisciplinary engineering projects.
• Act as the primary BIM point of contact on assigned projects.
• Lead, support and mentor BIM Coordinators and modellers across project teams.
• Implement project BIM requirements and maintain compliance with the agreed BIM Execution Plan (BEP).
• Set up and maintain project BIM workflows, standards, procedures and coordination environments.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary models and maintain federated coordination models.
• Plan, undertake and manage clash detection and spatial coordination activities.
• Chair or facilitate BIM coordination meetings and workshops, tracking issues through to resolution.
• Review models for quality, coordination and compliance with project requirements.
• Coordinate information and model exchanges between internal disciplines, vendors and external parties.
• Support teams with model set-up, coordinates, model federation and technical troubleshooting.
• Work with discipline leads to ensure model development reflects engineering design intent and project delivery requirements.
• Identify BIM delivery risks and escalate coordination, programme or resource issues where appropriate.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of BIM standards, templates, automation and delivery workflows.
• Promote Arcadis Behavioural Standards and Equality, Diversity & Inclusion.

Other reasonable work as requested by the BIM Manager and Operations Director(s).

Qualifications & Experience

• Demonstrable experience in a Senior BIM Coordinator, Lead BIM Coordinator or comparable technical BIM delivery role.
• Experience delivering large, complex and multidisciplinary engineering projects.
• Strong hands-on 3D AutoCAD experience, including creating, editing, manipulating and coordinating 3D geometry.
• Experience importing and converting vendor or equipment STP/STEP files into usable CAD geometry for model integration.
• Advanced Navisworks Manage capability, including model federation, clash detection, viewpoints, search and selection sets, and coordination workflows.
• Strong working knowledge of Revit, including project and model set-up and multidisciplinary model coordination.
• Ability to create and manage walkways, access zones, maintenance clearances and equipment clearance volumes.
• Ability to produce occasional LOD 200 simplified coordination geometry where detailed design or vendor information is not yet available.
• Experience integrating vendor equipment and third-party 3D information into the overall project environment.
• Experience using Autodesk Construction Cloud, Autodesk Forma or a comparable Common Data Environment.
• Strong understanding of BEPs, federated models, model QA/QC, shared coordinates, linking strategies and multidisciplinary model integration.
• Experience leading coordination meetings and communicating technical BIM issues clearly to engineering and project teams.
• Good working knowledge of ISO 19650 principles.
• A relevant qualification in BIM, engineering, construction technology, architecture or a related discipline is desirable; equivalent industry experience will also be considered.
• Experience in pharmaceutical, life sciences, semiconductor, data centre or advanced manufacturing projects is desirable.
• Experience with Cintoo Cloud, point-cloud or reality-capture workflows, Autodesk ReCap, scan-to-BIM verification, Newforma Konekt or comparable issue-management platforms is desirable.
• Experience developing BIM standards, templates or automation-based productivity workflows is desirable.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We're dedicated to creating a workplace where everyone thrives. Through six ED&I workstreams - Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+, and Race - we foster innovation by embracing diverse perspectives.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.