JOB DESCRIPTION / ROLE
Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al-Futtaim Group today is one of the most diversified and progressive, privately held regional businesses headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Structured into five operating divisions; automotive, financial services, real estate, retail and healthcare; employing more than 35,000 employees across more than 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Al-Futtaim Group partners with over 200 of the world's most admired and innovative brands. Al-Futtaim Group's entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organization to continue to grow and expand; responding to the changing needs of our customers within the societies in which we operate.
By upholding our values of respect, excellence, collaboration and integrity; Al-Futtaim Group continues to enrich the lives and aspirations of our customers each and every day
Overview of the role
The BIm manager will be responsible for developing and implementing BIM workflow and driving standard usage of BIM and managing a large team of BIm professionals to ensure smooth operations.
What you will be doing
- Oversee the use of BIM software firm-wide, including installing, configuring, maintaining, and supporting all BIM installations as well as analysing and solving BIM user issues.
- Support each project team by
- Managing and creating content library files and templates
- Creating and enforcing standards.
- Evaluating project models
- Chair the firm's BIM user group and ensure regular communication and coordination among BIM users
- Report on the company's current and projected state in regard to BIM implementation.
- Create and lead deployment strategies for the BIM implementation effort.
- Assess: Evaluate the firm's current workflow, strategies, budgets, projects, staffing, etc.
- Plan: Create a plan for implementation (identify team members, what is the project, what are the goals, tasks, KPI, etc.)
- Solve: Execute the plan, install the software, get templates created, get training, etc.
- Coordinate with IT manager the selection of BIM software products, including but not limited to licensing compliance, incorporating new version releases, maintaining legacy software, and customizing software for specific firm needs.
- Manage the implementation of supporting software and plug-ins for BIM.
- Stay informed on best practices for use of BIM.
- Stay informed on other BIM related software products and their interaction with Revit.
- Ability to use Dynamo and Python for automation.
- Responsible for BIM standards development, implementation, and enforcement.
- Creation and maintenance of the template files to assure standards.
- Provide support for plotting and electronic file submissions.
- Automate routines in BIM to support standards and productivity.
- Provide quality control for completeness and adherence to company standards of all shop drawings produced.
- Provide fundamental and intermediate training to AFE staff on all BIM software, through a training program incorporating large group, project team and individualized training methods.
- Conduct continuing education on BIM processes and its new technologies.
- Provide technical orientation/onboarding to new hires regarding BIM tools.
- Attend conferences, seminars, and workshops for BIM, bringing back best practices and disseminating the information to appropriate teams.
- Assist project teams in BIM project setup, project work modelling and detailing.
- Assist/create Revit families in response to project need.
- Create project schedules with content.
- Help resolve BIM design issues.
- Manage and distribute coordinated digital documents to the project team.
- Communicate with subcontractors to receive, coordinate, and update all models.
REQUIREMENTS
Required Skills to be successful
- Knowledge of the business and the mission-critical technical and functional skills needed to do the job.
- Understands the AFE Mission, Vision and processes. Learns new methods and technologies easily.
- Must be very well organized, resourceful, and planful; effective and efficient at marshalling multiple resources to get things done; lays out tasks in sufficient detail to mark the trail; can get things done with less cost and in less time; can work on multiple tasks at once without losing track; foresees and plans around obstacles
What qualifies you for the role?
- Minimum Qualifications, Certification and Knowledge:
- Bachelor's degree in electrical / Mechanical Engineering with RICS certificate in BIM
Minimum Experience: 10 Years in construction field in large MEP projects i.e. Hotels, Hospitals, Universities, Rail, Malls, entertainment complex, warehouses, residential, towers
About Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies
Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies offers customers complete engineering and systems integration solutions.
The Engineering arm operates in the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt providing a wide variety of products and services from air conditioning, scaffolding and access solutions, elevators and escalators, control and life safety, facilities management, building products, MEP, Energy Management, Technology Infrastructure and Digital Transformation.
The Technologies division provides complete business solutions to large, medium and small customers that include, contact centre solutions, business applications, business intelligence, data management, advanced analytics amongst others. The IT infrastructure portfolio comprises IP telephony, ELV systems, networking solutions, professional audio-visual solutions and managed services.
These solutions are further complemented by services that include project management, installation, testing, commissioning and after-sales maintenance contracts.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Established in the 1930's, the Al-Futtaim Group initially operated as a trading enterprise. Rapid development throughout the 1940's and 50's saw it establish itself regionally as an integrated commercial, industrial and services organisation, positioning itself one of the leading business houses in the lower Gulf region. Today, it operates collectively over 40 companies bearing the Al-Futtaim name, dominates many market segments in the UAE, and has expanded its sphere of operation to include Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Egypt.
The Group comprises a diverse range of strategically positioned operating subsidiaries and associate companies, structured to give the Al-Futtaim Group the flexibility and versatility to keep ahead of local competition while keeping pace with the ever-evolving global business scenario. The Groups continued investment in world-class systems technology is clear evidence of its commitment to maintain leading edge performance and service delivery.
The success of the Al-Futtaim Group can be attributed to a business approach that combines the ability to change with the traditional values of integrity, service and social responsibility that define its core business philosophy. This, linked with the Groups belief in decentralisation, gives the heads of the operating companies a high degree of functional autonomy and authority, providing the Group with essential flexibility, and individual employees a clearly defined work culture and sense of responsibility.
