BIM Manager – Data Centres
Turner & Townsend · London
Company Description
At Turner & Townsend we're passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people realise their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.
Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects in over 130 countries worldwide.
Our team is dynamic, innovative, and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and collaborative culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity, and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people enjoy working on some of the most exciting programmes in the world.
Job Description
About the Role
The Data Centre market represents one of the largest and fastest-growing opportunities within Real Estate Digital. Accelerated by global investment in cloud infrastructure, AI, hyperscale campuses and mission-critical facilities, clients are seeking increasingly sophisticated digital capabilities to support the planning, delivery and operation of their assets.
We are seeking an experienced BIM Manager to lead the PMC BIM function on a major data centre project. The role provides project-wide governance and assurance, connecting client requirements with the work of designers, contractors, vendors and specialist package teams. You will make BIM practical, controlled and decision-focused, ensuring models, data and workflows support safe, coordinated delivery and a reliable handover.
Key responsibilities
- Lead BIM delivery for the PMC from design mobilisation through construction, close-out and handover, acting as the primary point of contact for BIM-related matters.
- Onboard architects, engineers, vendors and specialist package contractors to the project BIM processes, workflows, owner requirements and common data environment.
- Lead BIM kick-off sessions, review BIM content within project mobilisation materials and ensure delivery teams understand their obligations.
- Lead the review, development and maintenance of the BIM Execution Plan, supporting standards, model matrix, information requirements and agreed workflows.
- Manage compliance with client BIM requirements, including the quality, structure, coordination and timely submission of models and drawings.
- Plan and undertake model quality-control and model-health reviews using approved tools; assign issues to model owners and monitor corrective action.
- Establish and manage clash-detection and multidisciplinary coordination processes, maintaining clash sets as packages and project stages develop.
- Administer the CDE, including permissions, issues, checklists, RFIs, review workflows and model submission processes.
- Monitor model interface points, asset and data population, model package splits, model-freeze dates and other BIM milestones.
- Chair or coordinate weekly BIM meetings with designers, contractors and specialist package BIM leads; escalate unresolved risks through PMC governance.
- Maintain BIM dashboards and portfolio reporting, providing clear visibility of compliance, issues, trends, close-out readiness and delivery risk.
- Coordinate closely with the BIM Field Engineer so that site-verification findings, scan comparisons and construction deviations are reflected in model coordination and close-out.
- Lead BIM close-out, including submission planning, review workflows, drawing-index and model-matrix reconciliation, redline and as-built review, approvals and packaging of native deliverables.
Experience and qualifications
- Significant BIM management or digital delivery experience on complex construction programmes, ideally data centres, advanced manufacturing, life sciences or similarly services-intensive projects.
- Experience working for or alongside a PMC, client, main contractor, design consultant and specialist supply chain in a multi-party delivery environment.
- Demonstrable experience leading BIM mobilisation, coordination, assurance, reporting and handover across design and construction.
- Strong knowledge of information management principles and industry standards, including ISO 19650.
- Experience managing a common data environment and model review, approval and issue-management workflows.
- Relevant degree, HNC/HND or equivalent experience in construction, engineering, architecture, BIM or digital delivery.
- Professional accreditation or recognised BIM / information management certification is desirable.
Key competencies
- Leadership - sets clear BIM expectations and creates accountability across multiple organisations.
- Assurance mindset - tests evidence, identifies non-compliance and drives issues through to closure.
- Communication - translates technical BIM requirements into practical actions for project and site teams.
- Commercial awareness - understands how information quality, coordination and late decisions affect cost, programme and risk.
- Stakeholder management - builds effective relationships while confidently challenging underperformance or non-compliance.
- Organisation - manages competing deliverables, recurring reviews, milestones and reporting without losing attention to detail.
Systems and technical knowledge
- Autodesk Forma and/or Procore including Docs, Issues, review workflows, checklists and RFIs.
- Revit and Navisworks Manage, or equivalent model authoring, federation, review and clash-detection tools.
- Model-health and interoperability checking tools.
- Power BI or equivalent dashboard and reporting tools.
- Microsoft 365, including Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and SharePoint.
- Awareness of asset-information, data and digital handover requirements.
What success looks like
- Delivery partners are mobilised quickly and understand the project BIM requirements.
- Model quality, coordination and data compliance are visible, measurable and actively managed.
- BIM risks are identified early, assigned clearly and escalated with decision-ready evidence.
- Model-freeze, redline, as-built and final handover submissions are planned, controlled and accepted.
- The PMC and client have trusted dashboard information on digital delivery performance.
Why join us?
This is an opportunity to play a visible role in the delivery of a complex, technology-led data centre programme. You will work within an integrated PMC team, helping clients and delivery partners turn digital requirements into reliable decisions, coordinated delivery and assured handover.
Qualifications
Systems and technical knowledge
- Autodesk Forma and/or Procore including Docs, Issues, review workflows, checklists and RFIs.
- Revit and Navisworks Manage, or equivalent model authoring, federation, review and clash-detection tools.
- Model-health and interoperability checking tools.
- Power BI or equivalent dashboard and reporting tools.
- Microsoft 365, including Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and SharePoint.
- Awareness of asset-information, data and digital handover requirements.
Additional Information
Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.
We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.
Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
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