MEP BIM Lead

About the Role

Buro Happold is seeking an MEP BIM Lead to join its Buildings team in Riyadh. This full-time role involves shaping the digital delivery of complex, high-performance, and sustainable building-services projects. The successful candidate will contribute to a practice focused on sustainability, equity, and social outcomes.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

As MEP BIM Lead, you will be responsible for leading and embedding effective BIM processes across MEP design delivery within the Riyadh Buildings team. This involves close partnership with project BIM leads, MEP job leaders, engineers, BIM technicians, and external project stakeholders to establish robust project information-management procedures from mobilisation through design, coordination, construction support, and final deliverables. Key responsibilities include:

• Leading the planning, setup, implementation, and ongoing management of MEP BIM delivery on complex building projects.
• Establishing and maintaining MEP BIM workflows in accordance with project BIM Execution Plans, client requirements, Buro Happold standards, and agreed information-management protocols.
• Supporting the review of tender and project BIM requirements, including Exchange Information Requirements, Level of Information Need, model-development requirements, delivery milestones, and digital scope.
• Contributing discipline-specific information to the BIM Execution Plan, Task Information Delivery Plan, and coordinated programme of model and drawing deliverables.
• Working with the Regional BIM Lead and Project BIM Lead to define clear digital-delivery responsibilities, workflows, approval routes, and quality-control procedures.
• Leading the development and implementation of MEP BIM enhancements, templates, standards, content libraries, and automated workflows.
• Supporting project teams in adopting consistent and efficient modelling, documentation, and coordination practices.
• Setting up and maintaining discipline Revit models in accordance with Buro Happold project templates, BIM standards, and project-specific requirements.
• Coordinating MEP models with architecture, interiors, structures, landscape, civil, façade, fire, and specialist consultant models.
• Setting up and managing Navisworks model reviews, clash-detection tests, and issue-resolution workflows.
• Carrying out routine model-health and information-quality reviews, including compliance with model standards and information requirements.
• Ensuring MEP models meet the agreed Level of Information Need for each project stage and deliverable.
• Providing technical support, training, and guidance to engineers, BIM technicians, and junior team members on Revit, Navisworks, Autodesk Construction Cloud, and MEP BIM best practice.

Experience and Qualifications

Candidates should have 5-10 years of experience in a relevant field. The role requires a strong understanding of BIM processes and their application in complex building projects.

Work Environment and Culture

Buro Happold offers a hybrid working arrangement and supports continuous professional development through learning and development programmes. The company values flexible approaches to working patterns and promotes diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences. The practice is committed to changing the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment.

Benefits

Buro Happold provides an attractive salary and benefits package. Employees are entitled to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions.

Application

Individuals interested in this role are encouraged to apply.