BIM & Digital Delivery Manager
🔍 New York, New York, United States
Joining Arup
Arup's purpose, shared values, and collaborative approach has set us apart for 80 years, guiding how we shape a better world.
As a BIM & Digital Delivery Manager, you will provide technical and digital-delivery leadership across multidisciplinary building and infrastructure projects. You will work with engineers, designers, project managers, clients and BIM professionals to establish effective information-management and BIM workflows that support coordinated, efficient and high-quality project delivery.
You will combine strong technical BIM knowledge with project leadership, helping teams apply appropriate standards, technology, automation and emerging artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities while maintaining robust quality, information-security and information-management practices.
*This role can sit in our East or West LATAM offices.*
The role
- Lead BIM and digital-delivery activities across multidisciplinary projects, from mobilization through close-out.
- Develop, review, implement, and maintain project BIM Execution Plans and associated delivery workflows.
- Define modeling, federation, coordination, information-exchange, and digital-deliverable strategies appropriate to project scope.
- Interpret client information requirements and translate them into practical, proportionate project processes.
- Establish model-health, information-quality, and QA/QC procedures; review the work of others for accuracy, completeness, and compliance.
- Lead model-coordination and issue-management processes, working with discipline leads to identify, assign, track, and resolve coordination issues.
- Establish and manage federated model, Common Data Environment (CDE), and information-exchange workflows using platforms appropriate to the project.
- Plan and facilitate BIM kick-off meetings and coordination workshops.
- Interpret and support the application of BIM and information-management standards, including ISO 19650 principles where applicable, together with client and jurisdictional requirements.
- Maintain a clear distinction between BIM/information-management and engineering design responsibilities.
- Assess BIM scope, delivery requirements, risks, and opportunities at bid and project-mobilization stages.
- Estimate resource needs; support project managers with work planning, schedules, and deliverable milestones.
- Monitor BIM activities against project scope, program, budget, and quality objectives, escalating issues and recommending corrective actions.
- Identify digital approaches that improve delivery efficiency, reduce rework, and enhance information quality.
- Identify and implement opportunities to improve project delivery through automation, computational workflows, data analytics, and AI.
- Promote the responsible use of approved AI-enabled tools, maintaining appropriate information security, quality assurance, transparency, and human oversight.
- Develop or support automation initiatives using tools such as Dynamo, scripting, APIs, or low-code solutions.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend practical applications based on project value, risk, interoperability, and maintainability.
- Act as a trusted BIM and digital-delivery advisor to project teams, clients, and external collaborators.
- Communicate technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders; facilitate workshops to establish project BIM and information requirements.
- Mentor BIM designers and coordinators; provide technical support, training, and professional development.
- Contribute to the development of standards, templates, libraries, protocols, and guidance; share lessons learned across projects and teams.
Is this role right for you?
- 7+ years of relevant AEC experience in BIM, digital delivery, or information management, including demonstrable experience leading BIM delivery on multidisciplinary projects.
- Bachelor's degree, advanced technical diploma, or equivalent relevant professional experience in engineering, architecture, design technology, construction, information management, or a related field.
- Advanced capability in one or more major BIM authoring and/or coordination environments, with the ability to learn and implement unfamiliar platforms.
- Demonstrable experience developing or implementing project BIM standards, BIM Execution Plans, federated-model workflows, and model-coordination processes.
- Working knowledge of CDE and collaborative information-management environments such as Autodesk Forma and/or ProjectWise.
- Working understanding of ISO 19650 principles and contemporary BIM and digital-delivery practices.
- Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary engineering and project-management teams on coordination activities.
- Strong communication, analytical, problem-solving, planning, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills.
Ability to mentor others and provide technical leadership across multiple projects or workstreams.
- Knowledge of relevant US project-delivery practices and ability to work effectively within applicable state and local requirements.
Preferred
- Experience across both Autodesk and Bentley ecosystems, including tools such as Revit, Civil 3D, OpenBuildings, MicroStation, Navisworks, Revizto, or Solibri.
- Experience with automation or computational design using Dynamo, Python, APIs, scripting, or comparable tools.
- Experience with data analytics or visualization platforms such as Power BI.
- Practical experience applying approved AI-enabled tools to AEC workflows, including model QA, information retrieval, content generation, or knowledge sharing.
- Experience with reality capture, point-cloud workflows, asset information, digital handover, or digital-twin use cases.
- Relevant BIM, information management, Autodesk, Bentley, or professional accreditation.
- Experience on major buildings, rail, aviation, transportation, or other complex infrastructure projects.
- Experience supporting bids, client workshops, BIM consultancy, or supply-chain BIM assessments.
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What we offer you
At Arup, we care about each member’s success, so we can grow together.Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognizes the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive – through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.
We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup’s legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling members to share in the results of our collective efforts.
Benefits at Work - At Arup, we have a comprehensive and valuable benefits program that works for our employees and their families while keeping costs low. These benefits provide health and welfare security for you as well as paid time off for rest and renewal. As a member of Arup, everyone shares in our success through a global profit share scheme (payments are dependent on the firm’s financial performance). Our Global Profit Share Plan (paid bi-annually) provides an opportunity for you to share in the success of the Firm. As a valued employee of Arup, you can also choose to participate in our 401(k) plan with up to 10% company match to help you save for your future
Flexible Working - We believe that flexible arrangements create a more inclusive way of working that supports our diversity and the wellbeing of our people. Options for alternative schedules and the ability to work outside of the office for a portion of your workweek are available
New York / New Jersey Hiring Range - The good faith base salary hiring range for this job if performed in NY/NJ is $137,800–$149,300 per year. This range is commensurate with experience, educational background, and skill level. Benefits are not included in the base salary. Please note hiring ranges for candidates performing work outside of NY/NJ will differ.
Different People, Shared Values
Arup is an equal opportunity employer that actively promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of age (within legal limits), gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, neurotype or mental health, race or ethnicity, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. We are an open environment that embraces diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas – this drives our excellence.
Guided by our values and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, we create and contribute to equitable spaces and systems, while cultivating a sense of belonging for all. Our internal employee networks support our inclusive culture: from race, ethnicity and cross-cultural working to gender equity and LGBTQ+ and disability inclusion – we aim to create a space for you to express yourself and make a positive difference. Discover more about life at Arup at www.arup.com/careers/your-life-at-arup.
Our Application Process
We will be reviewing our candidates for this position on a rolling basis. Once you have applied you will be evaluated and potentially moved on to the next round, at which point a member of the talent resourcing team will reach out to you directly.
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