Section Manager, BIM Coordination

Job description / Role

Group overview

Headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, we operate construction and manufacturing businesses, design and development centers, and a host of facilities in the Middle East and other countries.

Alfanar Building Systems

Alfanar Construction is classified as a Grade I contractor by the Contractors Classification Committee of the Government of Saudi Arabia.

Alfanar Building Systems manufactures and markets a variety of building construction products and systems.

The core manufacturing activities of the industries operating under Alfanar Building Systems are:

• Real estate development
• Fau00e7ade cladding, glazing systems, and architectural aluminum products
• Precast concrete products and architectural elements

Job purpose

Ensure the successful implementation, coordination, and management of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and ensure the effective use of BIM to enhance project efficiency, collaboration, and quality throughout the design, construction, and operation phases.

Key accountability areas

BIM strategy and development:

• Develop and implement BIM strategies, standards, and workflows to align with project goals.
• Develop and implement the BIM Execution Plan (BEP) in collaboration with clients.

Information management and data control:

• Define workflows, protocols, and processes for integrating BIM across projects.
• Ensure proper organization and management of BIM data for easy access and use throughout the project lifecycle.

Standards, compliance, and quality assurance:

• Establish and enforce BIM standards, templates, and guidelines in accordance with international best practices.
• Enforce compliance with the BIM Execution Plan (BEP), project protocols, and industry standards.
• Monitor the quality and integrity of BIM deliverables, ensuring adherence to project specifications and standards.

Collaboration and communication:

• Facilitate effective communication and collaboration through regular coordination meetings and digital platforms.
• Foster effective communication and collaboration among multidisciplinary teams, including architects, engineers, contractors, and clients.

Project delivery and performance:

• Ensure timely delivery of BIM-related project outputs, such as 3D models, documentation, and data for asset management.
• Optimize BIM workflows and enhance team proficiency, ensuring smooth BIM processes throughout the project.

Problem-solving and conflict resolution:

• Develop solutions to technical challenges, minimizing the impact on project schedules and budgets.
• Perform clash detection, resolve conflicts, and optimize model integration to ensure smooth project delivery.

Model and team management:

• Manage and integrate BIM models from various disciplines, resolving conflicts using tools like Navisworks or BIM 360.
• Ensure the efficient use of BIM processes and tools across all stages of the project.
• Provide training sessions for project teams, assist with technical challenges, and ensure effective use of BIM software.

Role accountability

HR proficiency:

• Ability to recruit, recognize, and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
• Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
• Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
• Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.

Responsibility:

• Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
• Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them.
• Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Delivery:

• Deliver the required results in a timely manner with required quality and cost.
• Making a tangible difference: must make a tangible difference to his area of operation and exceed business expectations.

Business planning and performance:

• Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
• Able to plan, follow-up, and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
• Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take corrective action accordingly.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational development:

• Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business process improvements:

• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automation opportunities as much as possible.
• Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
• Promote the automated systems and use them fully, to spread its culture.

Quality:

Quality is considered as Alfanar's prime competitive advantage; as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.

Adaptation:

Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Academic qualification

Bachelor degree in any relevant field

Work experience

10-15 years

Technical / functional competencies

• Technical research
• Leadership
• Resource management
• Communication
• Engineering design

About the Company

alfanar builds efficient energy systems & solutions of the present and sets up infrastructures for a brighter future.

We assist utility sector partners & customers in transforming cities into sustainable, habitable, and inclusive Smart Cities by harnessing renewable energy resources from wind, solar, and waste heat energy. Promoting the transition to a sustainable eco-conscious future.

Using world-class technologies, we develop unrivaled quality electrical solutions & products from our manufacturing facilities, to solve the world’s major energy challenges and make the world a better viable place.

Diligence, Efficiency, and Innovation are the key criteria our teams adopt in order to continuously provide effective solutions. We’re constantly equipping our teams with the tools they need to expand their horizons and reach higher grounds.

Being in an ever-changing environment with a crucial impact on their surroundings, our employees are nurtured to become keen thinkers with highly refined skills and a consistent outlook on the future, working together on finding the next big innovation.