BIM Manager - Open Buildings (BENTLEY)

This Opportunity

The BIM Manager position will focus on Bentley products to create and manage detailed 3D models with Bentley software. They will provide technical design support for OPEN BUILDINGS and CADD, ensuring accurate designs and specifications for planning and infrastructure projects. Responsibilities include overseeing CADD designs for multi-site construction projects, verifying that deliverables like reports, plans, and models reflect survey data and meet industry standards for quality and accuracy. This position is based in New York City.

Key Responsibilities

• Create accurate 3D models of MEP systems in Bentley software per project specs.


• Coordinate with engineers and architects to align models with requirements.


• Ensure deliverables meet quality standards and the BIM Execution Plan.


• Conduct clash detection and generate reports for coordination.


• Produce 2D drawings from 3D models for construction documents.


• Comply with all project BIM standards and protocols.


• Maintain and update the BIM library and families.

 Your Impact

• Supervise work product compiled and drafted from the physical work site, surveys, structural concepts, blueprints, schematics, data, verbal or written specifications or technical drawings.


• Coordinate 3D design and drafting (using Open Buildings - Bentley) work product and work closely with engineers and project managers to resolve design details or discrepancies, and to prepare drawings which require a high degree of precision on projects of moderate- to large-scale, complexity, and/or scope. 


• Oversee quality control standards and procedures for accurate and precise CADD work, measurements, documentation, analysis, and portrayal of incoming and existent data.


• Ensure standard practices to provide technical design assistance and guidance that accounts for the proper illustration, fit form, and function using geometric dimensioning, tolerance and quantity calculations, while ensuring the construction and maintainability of designs according to design standard specifications and code requirements.  


• Ability to anticipate and recognize issues related to own work.


• Ability to gather appropriate resources to solve problems.


• Self-educates and mentor other drafting staff, as well as engineers in BIM techniques.


• Assists project/design managers by providing input on schedule and production tasks.


• Believes in and champions the firms’ core values and inspires others to do the same.


• Understands overall project scope, the role of BIM team, and the roles of other disciplines for a project.


• Demonstrates an intermediate level of written and verbal communication both internally and externally.


• Experience monitoring and successfully managing time spent versus time allocated for task completion. 


• Understands basic firm financial terms and concepts


• Champions model and drawing quality standards


• Assists with managing the development and output of document sets for WSP engineering staff.


• Performs Revit project setups and updates with some direction of engineering staff with some supervisory guidance. 


• Implement drawing organization for large, complex drawing packages across multiple companies.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a closely related discipline or equivalent professional experience.


• MTA experience (not required but highly preferred)


• 5 to 10 years of proven experience as a BIM Modeller, with a focus on Bentley software solutions.


• Technical proficiency with Bentley software platforms (including MicroStation, AECOsim, OpenBuildings Designer) and other BIM applications.


• Active Listening - Ability to actively attend to, convey, and understand the comments and questions of others.


• Applied Learning - Ability to participate in needed learning activities in a way that makes the most of the learning experience.


• Communication, Oral - Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word.


• Customer Oriented - Ability to take care of the customers’ needs while following company procedures.


• Detail Oriented - Ability to pay attention to the minute details of a project or task.


• Initiative - Ability to make decisions or take actions to solve a problem or reach a goal.


• Diversity Oriented - Ability to work effectively with people regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, or job type.       


• Experience working on projects within both public and private sectors (such as state, city, county, utility districts, and private land development).


• Analytical approach with sound judgment for evaluating situations and making informed decisions.


• Strong self-management and interpersonal skills, with the capability to communicate persuasively and tactfully across all organizational levels.


• Well-developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills, demonstrated by research, data analysis, calculations, statistical review, and solution identification relevant to project objectives.


• Capacity to work independently while providing mentorship and leadership to junior team members, strictly adhering to QA/QC standards.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Master’s Degree is preferred.

WSP Benefits:

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Compensation: 

Expected Salary (New York):  $110K-$150K

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and may offer additional benefits and compensation, depending on circumstances and the type of work being performed not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

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