BIM Technician – Civils

About the role

Balfour Beatty Power T&D are looking for a BIM Technician - Civils to join their team in Derby.

Working with project teams, designers and technicians to deliver the scope of works in line with project objectives. Producing drawing outputs for both initial and detail design phases and support the design of substation and overhead line civil works whilst complying with internal quality control processes.

Primarily utilising BIM authoring tools such as Autodesk Revit, the role requires close collaboration with different teams and disciplines, and will involve evaluating design calculations to develop practical engineering drawings based on these parameters. The successful candidate will need to apply engineering knowledge to ensure that all designs are feasible, safe, and well-optimised.

To produce engineering drawings and reinforcement schedules based upon the civil designs required on Power T&D projects.

Ensure the timely and quality production of deliverables to a high technical level which are compliant with the required Client and national technical standards (BS/Eurocodes/ENA).

• Drive a Safety by Design approach at all times.
• Work closely with other elements of the design team to ensure effective collaboration on multi-disciplinary projects.
• Ensure appropriate Quality Assurance Standards are applied.
• Produce Drawings and Material Schedules to the required standard first time and within time scales set.
• Assist in the checking of Documents produced by other members of the team.
• Liaise as necessary with the design and operations personnel to determine the most suitable and practical interpretation of design requirements.
• Comply with project and function specific standards and practices.
• Produce accurate packages with minimum of rework
• Produce accurate and complete records

• Reinforced concrete foundation drawings for overhead line towers
• Reinforced concrete foundation drawings for overhead line tower upgrades / remedial works
• Reinforced concrete foundation drawings for bunds, retaining walls and other structures
• Bar bending schedules
• Setting out drawings
• Reinforced concrete foundation drawings for substation equipment
• Overall BIM Models/layouts for federated models

• Proven experience of the drawing of civil engineering works
• Competent in the use of Autodesk Revit
• IT Literate (Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel)
• Desire to operate in a technician role and develop skillset to support designers
• Excellent communication skills

• Civils 3D software experience
• AutoCAD or Microstation experience
• Autodesk Recap Experience
• Experience working with Lidar/survey data
• Experience working with geolocated models
• Previous experience complying with quality assurance processes
• Experience working in a Common Data Environment (CDE) such as BIM
  360 or Forma

• Good understanding of BIM principals (PAS
  1192 and ISO
  19650)
• Good understanding of engineering principles

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

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