Senior BIM Designer - Building Services

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12.08.2025

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Job Title – Senior

BIM Designer ( Building Services)

Location –Cardiff

Joining Arup

Arup’s purpose, shared values and collaborative approach has set us apart for over 75 years, guiding how we shape a better world.

Sophisticated BIM models enable workflow efficiency on complex projects and lead to a wealth of other insights for clients, during construction and into operation.

At Arup, we also use BIM to enable automated geometry and design, layout and documentation of repeat elements and provide coordination across disciplines. It accelerates the design process and provides a single source of truth for the whole project team.

We build models that enable rapid design iteration and automatically generate solutions and documentations. We use BIM to validate design choices too, helping clients explore the viability of a proposed combination of services of functions.

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The Opportunity

We are seeking a senior BIM professional to develop and create a step change in our BIM capability in the West region team. The highly skilled and motivated BIM professional will work within the West Property Science & Industry groups, based at the Cardiff office, reporting to the team leaders but linked to the wider network within West.

The successful candidate will be responding to and authoring BIM documentation for both internal and external use. This role involves resourcing and allocating tasks to team members, carrying out appraisals, mentoring technicians and engineers, and providing constructive feedback to help them enhance their skills and knowledge in BIM-related activities.

Managing model environments is a key responsibility of this role, they will lead and develop the team’s BIM activities and capability within a large multi-disciplinary group of engineers and technicians, ensuring that all models meet both client project needs and that high standards are implemented and maintained. This includes setting up the project environment, onboarding team members, and liaising with the wider design team to ensure the efficient exchange of information in accordance with project needs.

The BIM professional will also be implementing Arup standards across all BIM-related activities, ensuring consistency and quality in all projects. They will be expected to lead coordination sessions, utilize Revit to model MEP building services designs, and support engineers and technicians in delivering projects. Ensuring seamless project execution and collaboration among team members is essential.

Furthermore, the BIM professional will be expected to attend project meetings with clients and the design team, liaise with design engineers, and maintain strong connections to the Arup BIM community. This role demands excellent communication and interpersonal skills to foster effective collaboration and maintain strong professional relationships.

At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas.

You will have the opportunity do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve.

Is this role right for you?

We are seeking the following skills and experience:

• Degree-qualified in a design engineering-related discipline such as Mechanical, Electrical, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Building Services Engineering, or other fields relevant to BIM within an engineering context. We also welcome candidates working towards or holding professional registration via the Engineering Technician (Eng Tech) or Incorporated Engineer (IEng) routes, reflecting a commitment to professional development and industry standards
• Prove…