BIM Manager - Civil Specialist Manager at AECOM

Job Description

AECOM is seeking a Civil Specialist to be based anywhere AECOM has an office within the West Region. This position will be supporting a team based in the Pacific Time Zone.

• AECOM’s Water Business Line is seeking a creative and highly motivated Associate Civil Design Manager specializing in grading and earthwork design for immediate employment. This is a technical role working with engineers and project managers on a variety of projects within the Dams, Mining and Water Resources markets.

Job Summary/Responsibilities

The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

• Extensive experience with Autodesk Civil 3D through release 2023, with an emphasis on complex and advanced multi-layered and surface modeling capabilities.
• Ability to take general and limited direction and simple sketches from engineers to then develop design criteria and progress through all stages of design.
• Dams – Grading design and surface modeling for earth-fill, rockfill, conventional concrete and RCC embankments, quarries, spillways, outlet works, foundations and drains.
• Mining- Grading design, surface modeling and site development for tailing storage facilities, embankments, seepage ponds, utility corridors, waste rock piles, buttresses, ring dikes, underdrains, closure plans, and instrumentation and monitoring.
• Civil/Site- Site development, access roads, drainage channels, jurisdictional and non-jurisdictional dams, slope stabilization, retaining walls, detention ponds, land development, surface drainage, stream restoration and pipe/structure.
• Prepare detailed calculation packages for earthwork quantities, reservoir storage capacity, and tailing storage.
• Ability to process a variety of data sources to build existing base surfaces from LiDAR, survey points, breaklines, DEMs, and contours.
• Detailed understanding of coordinate systems and the ability to transform data from one system to another.
• Data management of survey and client data through the project life cycle.
• Meeting with clients for project kickoff, ongoing design review, and project close out.
• Works under limited supervision.
• Exchanging project data with multiple consultants through local and virtual servers.
• Generating and maintaining 3D federated models for clash detection, generating reports to demonstrate coordination progress and clash mitigation.
• Understanding and proactively implementing the required LOD, and CoBie data at each of the project stages, as per project-specific requirements.
• Developing periodic training sessions for the design team and other stakeholders.
• Creating, enforcing, updating, and implementing project-specific and practice-wide BIM standards and execution manuals, including both internal and external management of design teams.
• Work closely with the design team reporting requirements and agreements from BIM Coordination meetings.
• CADD project coordination and verification reviews.
• Mentoring other CAD production staff.
• Training and supervising workflow and seminars.
• Updating internal protocols within the organization.
• Visual rendering and sequencing output using Infraworks, Navisworks, Enscape or other tools.
• Performs both routine and non-routine, complex design assignments that require judgment in resolving issues or making recommendations.
• Field and survey experience a plus Generating labor estimates and authoring contract scope documents.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or eight (8) years of relevant experience demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education

Preferred Experience:

• Fifteen (15) + years of relevant experience
• Twelve (12) + years of Civil3D experience in large scale/complex multidisciplinary projects
• Proficient with these software programs Civil3D, BIM360/ACC, Dynamo, ProjectWise, Microsoft Excel, Google Earth, Navisworks, InfraWorks, Vehicle Tracking, ReCap ESRI GIS, Blue Marble Global Mapper or other GIS application.
• Strong technical progression within civil engineering and design.
• Comprehensive knowledge of industry standards.
• Some experience with these software programs a plus:MicroStation, OpenRoads, OpenGround, GeoPak and Revit.
• The individual should have excellent leadership and communication skills
• Excellent demonstrable civil modeling ability on large scale/complex multidisciplinary projects
• As well as BIM/CIM manager duties, the individual would also be expected to work as a production designer and contributor to AECOM Digital innovations team.