South Africa onlyWe are looking for a Senior Information Manager to help lead the delivery of our exciting and complex projects across multiple sectors. We are an established industry leader in Romania, with a strong track record across sectors and geographies. Thanks to strong business relationships in the UK, we are delivering large-scale, complex projects in collaboration with leading architects and engineers, particularly in the infrastructure space across the Middle East, and now seek an information manager to offer the full range of services our clients demand.
Job purpose
The nature of the role will vary subtly depending on your background and aspirations - we are looking for
candidates to fill roles that have both a technical and commercial leaning. Broadly, as a Senior Information
Manager, you will work with the Discipline Lead, internal and external clients, to maximise the value of adopting a
Digital-led project approach throughout the whole project lifecycle.
Principle Responsibilities
- This role will see you working as part of a talented specialist team, focusing on IM consultancy projects
across a range of sectors, including stadia, culture, commercial, aviation, residential, and more.
- You will be involved in consulting clients on the strategic implementation of BIM through the planning, design, construction, and operational stages for a project lifecycle.
- Liaising and co-operating with Project Directors, Project Leaders, IT, and Regional BIM Leaders in support
of a collaborative working culture
- On active projects, the role involves the management and delivery of the Client’s information requirements during the project lifecycle through activities such as coordination, information delivery planning, and visualisation.
- Offering the IM consultancy service for the creation of strategic and tactical requirements; and
Implementation services for setting up, governing, and maintaining the Asset Information Model and Project Information Model.
- Setting up and managing Common Data Environments (CDEs) on behalf of Clients where we are the Lead
Consultant and/or have the Information Manager scope.
- Establishing the internal Common Data Environment, including processes and procedures to enable reliable information exchange between Project Team Members, the Employer, and other parties.
- Managing Common Data Environment processes and procedures.
- Contribute to the provision of strategic advice to clients wanting to improve projects and organisations through a digital approach.
- Maintaining the Information Model to meet integrity and security standards in compliance with the exchange information requirements.
- Driving project performance, service delivery, and technical and commercial outcomes, and undertaking
reviews, ensuring client delivery is above expectations.
- Ensuring risks are proactively identified, assessed, and managed to avoid adverse impacts on the project.
- Working to ensure maximum client satisfaction, championing client care, and proactively working with the client.
- Manage documents in line with the Quality Management System
- Support the Project Director in preparing monthly reports to the client on activities carried out
- Monitor the team’s tasks against agreed deadlines, flagging any potential delays so that they can be
addressed promptly
- Attend project and group meetings as necessary, monitor and coordinate actions and responses arising
- Ensure compliance with QA procedures.
- Support the Project Director to ensure QMS audit compliance.
- Create and improve project information management protocols where needed.
- Oversight of the creation of project deliverables to ensure that they meet with client's information
requirements in collaboration with the project management team.
- Ensure that common systems and templates are set up and that any problems are communicated to IT Support.
Requirements
What we are looking for
- A minimum of five years of experience in the construction industry and a detailed knowledge of authoring platforms and evaluation platforms such as Revit, Civil 3D, BIM360, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Solibri or Navisworks.
- You will hold a relevant industry qualification. Typical degrees include: [Engineering Technology, Architect, Architectural Technologist, Project Management, BIM Management] or be able to demonstrate experiential learning to an equivalent level.
- Experience in the Built Environment sector with an architect, main contractor, or engineering consultancy in a project/design management and information management role.
- Ability to act as an Information Management Lead for complex multi-disciplinary projects, taking ownership of successful and coordinated delivery across different disciplines and regions, will form a central part of the successful delivery of this role.
- Experience in consulting clients on the strategic implementation of BIM through the planning, design, construction, and operational stages for a project lifecycle.
- Experience in management and delivery of the Client’s information requirements during the project lifecycle through activities such as coordination, information delivery planning, and visualisation.
- Experience of providing an IM consultancy service for the creation of strategic and tactical requirements; and implementation services for setting up, governing, and maintaining the Asset Information Model and Project Information Model.
- Maintaining the Information Model to meet integrity and security standards in compliance with the exchange information requirements.
- Manage documents in line with the Quality Management System and ensure compliance with QA procedures.
- Setting up and managing Common Data Environments (CDEs) on behalf of Clients where we are Lead Consultant and/or have the Information Manager scope.
- Establishing the internal Common Data Environment (ACC and SharePoint), including processes and procedures to enable reliable information exchange between Project Team Members
- You can demonstrate an understanding of the ISO 19650 Suite of Documents and international approaches
- An excellent communicator, capable of selling the value of Information Management and Digital Delivery to internal and external stakeholders.
- Capable of leading either from the front or alongside a project director.
- Mapping processes and aligning digital deliverables and the management of their delivery
- Carry out validation and compliance checks and advise on non-compliance and generate reports on this.
- Actively seek to improve processes and collaborate with the QA team to implement enhancements.
Benefits
The business is 80 strong in Romania based & 6 people who are UK based.
They are branching out in South Africa for this next hire, which makes it an exciting time to join the business as their very first S.A based employee.
They are an engineering company (construction engineering) focused. Remote first company and they do a lot of work in the middle east - Saudi specifically.
This person will be based on a client project will be focused on the exciting world expo for 2030 in Riyadh - This project needs to be completed by end of 2026 to start the infrastructure - They work on pretty unique, large, beautiful architecture projects.
The company is 11 years old and is stable, the UK leader has been looking after the UK team for 4 years and has high hopes that this next addition to the team will be the start of many great things to come out of South Africa. Most of the UK staff are doing: Design process on their projects (they come from a design path but have architectural backgrounds) so there are lots of great minds you will be working with.
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