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VIVO provides facilities management and accommodation maintenance for the UK military and its partners. VIVO embodies both experience and innovation.
What we do
We put our Customers and Families First. They are the driving force behind everything we do. We drive forward improvements for them to ensure the service they receive, whether reactive repairs or a major project, is completed safely and on time. In order to achieve this, we have 4 core values: open, caring, agile and collaborative. These are at the heart of everything we do.
Location: Home based, candidates can be located anywhere in England.
Salary: Competitive + company car/car allowance + benefits
Hours of work: Monday-Friday, full time
The BIM Manager will sit within the VIVO Defence Contracts Asset Management Team/Billable Works Team, which provides VIVO Defence Services with UK/contract wide support in the operational delivery of both maintenance and construction services, across various built and infrastructure asset types. The management of asset data is a fundamental part of the contract delivery requirements. Part of this is the implementation of VIVO’s commitments to delivery BIM to ISO 19650 standards over the course of the contract.
The Contract BIM Manager will be responsible for developing VIVO’s digital capabilities, data management strategy and the delivery of our BIM commitments within VIVO’s FDIS Contract Building Information Modelling Execution Plan. They will own the Contract BEP which will be continuously developed and amended to meet VIVO and DIO’s evolving maturity and promote the benefits of digital ways of working, including working closely with the VIVO Digital and IT teams to implement new digital/IoT capabilities to bring efficiencies into our day-to-day ways of working.
The principal role of the BIM manager will be to support the Billable Works teams in ensuring that projects run smoothly, and project information models are delivered on time. The role involves working closely with our supply chain partners in their capabilities to achieve the BIM delivery requirements as well as with the Commercial and Projects teams in the tendering of BIM projects, including tender documentation, BIM related RFI’s, supplier BEP evaluations and post tender interviews and recommendations.
You will also manage the communication of BIM strategy, documentation & workflows to stakeholders and produce monthly reports for senior managers, to identify and measure BIM implementation.
What You Need To Do The Job
First and foremost, you should be an experienced BIM Manager, with a degree level qualification in Architecture, Engineering, or Design, or have extensive appropriate working knowledge in this field.
It is important that you have sound knowledge of infrastructure projects and a general technical ability, experience of the design, construction, and delivery of infrastructure projects and of managing BIM and digital information element of multi-disciplinary projects (delivery and operation), as well as experience of operating asset management against ISO 19650-3 or PAS1192-3 (Information Management using Building Information Modelling).
You should have experience of using collaboration software like SharePoint (CDE) & Projectwise, Asite, Viewpoint 4 Projects, GliderBIM and authoring software such as Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD, Bentley.
Strong communication skills are essential, as well as good commercial awareness and the capacity to modify strategy and technical needs to meet client/project/practice objectives.
You will need to hold a full UK driving licence and be able to pass SC Clearance to be considered for this role.
What We Offer
- 25 days annual leave
- 6% employer matched pension contribution
- Company car or car allowance
- Private medical cover for self and partner
- Life assurance at 2 x base salary
- 1 x professional subscription per year
VIVO Defence Services
The role you have applied for is with VIVO Defence Services, a joint venture between Serco and EQUANS. By applying for this role, please be aware that information contained within your CV may be shared between VIVO Defence Services, Serco and EQUANS during the recruitment process.
At VIVO, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. Therefore, we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool.
We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working and operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly a Disability Confident Leader. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview. If candidates wish to request extra time to apply then they should contact 0345 010 4000 and ask to speak to a VIVO Recruiter.
