BIM Manager - St. Petersburg, FL

Overview

FLSA Class:
Exempt

Reports To:

Firm Principal

Location:

On-Site

Job Summary: As a BIM Manager at Sweet Sparkman Architecture and Interiors, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining the Revit and general project documentation infrastructure for the firm. This includes Revit Templates, project standards, and libraries, and helps to ensure model health and quality control for drawing sets and coordination. The BIM Manager will also aid in problem-solving for complex models and families and will be expected to work with project teams to troubleshoot BIM-related challenges.

• Lead the creation, ongoing refinement, and deployment of the official firm-wide Revit Templates to ensure standardization, efficiency, and adherence to Sweet Sparkman s project documentation requirements.
• Establish, manage, and continuously update the firm’s BIM library of parametric families and standard details, ensuring high quality, performance, and compliance with project standards.
• Define and document internal BIM standards, protocols, and workflows for all projects, ensuring consistent naming conventions, level of detail (LOD) requirements, and coordinate systems.
• Assist in the administration of projects’ BIM Execution Plan with BIM and drafting staff from consultant firms to ensure proper collaborative project setup, project positioning, and sharing/linking protocols are being maintained.
• Evaluate, recommend, and manage the implementation of new versions of Revit and related BIM software, ensuring smooth transitions and minimal disruption to ongoing projects.
• Conduct regular audits and checks on active project models to monitor model health, file size, performance, and data integrity.
• Work with project leaders to perform technical reviews of drawing sets, confirming that documentation extracted from the model meets the firm s quality control standards before issuance.
• Oversee the proper setup and linking of models across disciplines, facilitating clash detection and inter-disciplinary coordination to proactively address geometric conflicts.
• Assist project teams in developing and enforcing BIM Execution Plans specific to large or complex projects, outlining project goals, required software, and deliverables.
• Serve as the firm s expert resource to troubleshoot complex BIM-related challenges, including resolving model errors, optimizing view template settings, and fixing problematic parametric families.
• Aid project teams in developing complex or highly technical Revit families and models that exceed typical project team capabilities.
• Develop and conduct targeted training sessions and workshops for staff at all levels to enhance their proficiency in Revit and adherence to new BIM standards and workflows.
• Assist project managers with the initial setup of new projects, ensuring the correct application of the firm s templates, standards, and cloud collaboration settings.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• A highly skilled Revit user with proven experience working on large and/or complex projects.
• Competent with the Autodesk Construction Cloud platform, including BIM
  360 and Autodesk Docs.
• Assess/audit Revit model health.
• Implement Clash Detection, and work with project teams to coordinate conflict resolution internally and with consultants.
• Develop, tailor, and administer the BIM Execution plan.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite or similar software.

• A Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, or Construction is preferred but not required if equivalent experience is demonstrated.
• Minimum of five years of experience required.

• Ability to perform work primarily in an office, requiring prolonged periods of sitting or standing at a desk while utilizing a computer and telephone equipment.
• Ability to use a computer for extended periods for writing, editing, research, and analysis, requiring close visual acuity to perform activities such as preparing and analyzing data, transcribing, viewing a…