About the role
Balfour Beatty Power T&D are looking for a Senior BIM Coordinator to join their growing team in Leeds, Newcastle or Glasgow.
Role Purpose
Provide senior leadership over BIM coordination and CAD/BIM production for substation projects.
The Senior BIM Coordinator holds overall ownership of the federated coordination model and provides technical authority over modelling, drafting, and coordination practices, driving consistency, quality, and efficiency.
The role combines strategic oversight with hands‑on involvement in modelling, coordination, and production activities, particularly on complex or high‑risk areas of delivery.
What you'll be doing
Accountabilities
- Own and oversee the federated BIM coordination model across projects, ensuring model integrity, coordination quality, and suitability for design reviews, issue resolution, and information exchange.
- Lead BIM coordination strategy and governance across projects, defining how coordination is planned, prioritised, and reported.
- Set, implement, and enforce BIM and CAD standards, templates, libraries, and workflows to ensure consistent, high‑quality outputs.
- Act as technical authority for coordination and production issues, supporting and escalating complex clashes, modelling challenges, and coordination risks.
- Remain hands‑on with Revit modelling, drafting, and Navisworks coordination where required, particularly for complex interfaces, pilot approaches, or recovery of at‑risk deliverables.
- Introduce and champion automation and optimisation initiatives (e.g. Dynamo, rule‑based checks) to improve efficiency, reduce error, and increase consistency.
- Mentor and support BIM Coordinators, technicians, and engineers, providing technical guidance, quality oversight, and capability development.
- Conduct advanced model audits and coordination risk reviews, ensuring readiness for key project gateways and formal information releases.
- Support BIM Managers in BEP development, delivery assurance, and alignment between project‑level coordination and organisational standards.
Who we're looking for
Personal Qualities and Experience:
- Advanced BIM coordination and CAD/BIM production knowledge, with strong practical experience working directly in live models.
- Proven experience leading teams and improving delivery performance through standards, coaching, and process improvement.
- Strong technical credibility, able to challenge, guide, and support designers and coordinators at all levels.
Demonstrated interest in automation, optimisation, and continuous improvement of digital delivery processes.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
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About us
Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.
From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
We are a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
Job Reference: BBUK18520
