BIM Manager – Buildings Infrastructure

Are you someone with strong technical capabilities and budding leadership qualities? Do you enjoy the challenges—and seek the efficiency and rewards—of working within a 3D world? Are you a clear communicator who builds strong relationships and engages with your team? If you're a systematic problem solver who can tie the day-to-day to the bigger picture, this opportunity is for you. As someone with excellent communication skills and technical acumen, you will thrive in Dillon’s fast-paced and agile environment—where innovation is encouraged, ideas matter, and your work will make a visible impact.

Dillon’s Buildings Infrastructure Practice is looking for an experienced BIM Manager to join our multidisciplinary team of professionals. Dillon practices across Canada, supporting clients in diverse markets from coast to coast.

At Dillon, we operate as one team. This position is available at our offices in Eastern Canada, Ontario, and Manitoba, with the opportunity for hybrid and flexible work arrangements to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life.

Your Opportunity:

As part of Dillon’s Tech-Driven Evolution, the BIM Manager will lead the strategic implementation and management of Building Information Modeling across the Buildings Infrastructure Practice. The role is critical to advancing the Practice’s digital maturity and service delivery, supporting architectural, mechanical, and electrical disciplines (with eventual expansion to other disciplines).

The BIM Manager will define Dillon’s BIM vision, standardize workflows, onboard and mentor team members, collaborate across Practices, Disciplines, and offices, integrate new technologies, and contribute to a scalable, high-performance digital ecosystem that supports innovation and client success.

Responsibilities:

Strategy, Innovation & Value Alignment:

1. Assess current workflows and define, develop, and implement a roadmap for BIM integration, ensuring alignment with client requirements, internal needs, and evolving industry standards.
2. Support project setup and kickoff to ensure BIM deliverables are properly scoped and aligned, representing BIM capabilities in client meetings to tailor solutions to client-specific needs.
3. Report regularly to senior leadership on BIM challenges, opportunities, and progress, driving value-based, scalable solutions through standardized digital workflows.
4. Pilot and implement emerging technologies (AI, AR/VR/MR, digital twins, reality capture) to enhance project delivery and support innovation pilots, demonstrating the mindset and technical skills needed to address current and future BIM-related challenges.
5. Collaborate with internal teams to align standards, evolve execution plans, and support business development with BIM opportunities, ensuring smooth integration of subconsultant models.

Standards, Technology & Process Optimization:

1. Create, document, and enforce BIM standards, templates, BEPs, protocols, and QA/QC procedures to improve modeling consistency and quality, proactively promoting digital delivery, BIM adoption, and continual innovation.
2. Oversee content management, including Revit family creation, template updates, and standardized model elements, while troubleshooting and resolving BIM-related issues on live projects, measuring success through adoption, quality, efficiency, and impact.
3. Conduct regular model audits and BIM audits or quality checks on active projects to ensure compliance, efficiency, and consistency, supporting interoperability across platforms, building trust across offices and disciplines.
4. Oversee tools and technologies, including Revit, ACC, AutoCAD, Dynamo, Python, and other API-connected platforms, acting as an intermediary between internal teams, external consultants, contractors, and clients, demonstrating the mindset and technical skills needed to address current and future BIM-related challenges.

Leadership, Mentorship & Culture:

1. Mentor and support BIM professionals across multiple offices, fostering a culture of innovation, knowledge-sharing, and continuous improvement, building trust across offices and disciplines.
2. Raise the internal profile of BIM through presentations, internal communications, cross-discipline engagement, and strategic training, leading onboarding and Revit skills assessments for new hires, proactively promoting digital delivery, BIM adoption, and continuous innovation.
3. Lead and coordinate internal BIM user groups, staying informed about industry trends and best practices to bring insight back into Dillon’s teams, comfortable with ambiguity and driving improvement in evolving environments.

Project Enablement & Client Integration:

1. Ensure smooth integration of subconsultant and external stakeholder models and support BIM throughout construction documentation, shop drawings, and asset delivery, focused on ensuring deliverables meet or exceed client needs.
2. Collaborate with project teams to guide digital project delivery and answer BIM-related questions, leading BIM project start-up meetings for efficient and coordinated delivery, building trust across offices and disciplines.
3. Conduct BIM audits or quality checks on active projects, flagging issues and helping teams stay aligned with standards, measuring success through adoption, quality, efficiency, and impact.
4. Host training sessions or working sessions to raise the digital literacy of colleagues and grow internal BIM capabilities, reviewing and evolving standards and execution plans, proactively promoting digital delivery, BIM adoption, and continuous innovation.

Qualifications:

1. Degree in architecture, engineering, building science, or construction technology (C.E.T. with equivalent experience also considered).
2. Minimum 7 years of experience in the building design, engineering, or construction industry.
3. At least 5 years of experience in BIM development and digital project delivery.
4. Comfortable with ambiguity and driving improvement & Innovation in evolving environments.

Experience:

1. Proven ability to lead BIM strategy, manage standards, and support live projects.
2. Strong hands-on experience with Revit and related tools like BIM 360/ACC, Dynamo, and Python.
3. Familiarity with interoperability challenges, BIM vendors and ecosystems, APIs, and “single source of truth” delivery models.
4. Experience in onboarding staff, assessing Revit skills, and developing training programs.
5. Demonstrated ability to collaborate across offices and support national delivery.
6. Solid understanding of how BIM supports design efficiency, client value delivery, and integration with downstream workflows such as construction, operations, and facilities management.

Why Choose Dillon:

Dillon is powered by people who are technically proficient, passionate about socially important projects, and motivated to deliver superior, tangible results. We strive to remain at the forefront of technology and innovation, and are empowered to continually grow and develop.

We live our core values:

1. Reliability: words result in actions that build trust;
2. Achievement: do the work to hit the target;
3. Continuous development: always learning; always adapting; always growing;
4. Creativity: discover new possibilities;
5. Courage: do the things that matter, especially when it’s hard;
6. Inclusiveness: enabling belonging to draw strength from our differences.

Dillon is a certified Great Place to Work. This recognition underscores our commitment to fostering an outstanding employee experience and cultivating an exceptional workplace culture. At Dillon, we believe that our people are our greatest asset. This designation reflects our ongoing efforts to ensure that our workplace is not just a place of work, but a community where everyone can thrive.

In addition, we offer:

1. Employee share purchase plan
2. Dillon is 100% employee owned and share ownership is open to all employees.
3. A competitive compensation package
4. Comprehensive health benefits
5. Generous retirement savings plan
6. Student loan repayment assistance with matching employer contributions
7. Flexible work hours and remote working options
8. Dillon values its staff and the contributions that are made each day and understands that work arrangements can differ based on personal needs and business needs. We are taking a trust-based approach to offer a variety of flexible and remote work options to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life.
9. Early Career Development (ECD) program
10. We are committed to developing the skills and knowledge of our people at every stage of their career. The ECD program is designed to accelerate the development of successful consulting careers of new graduates. The program focuses on a mix of skills and behaviours that align with technical, consulting, clients, business acumen, and early leadership.
11. Focus on Innovation
12. The ability to anticipate, examine, and adopt new and innovative solutions is a crucial driver for the continual and progressive advancement of our business performance. In our culture, people are empowered to reflect and question current practices and seek forward looking solutions to today’s problems and tomorrow’s opportunities.
13. Employee and Family Assistance program
14. A variety of EFAP tools and online resources to support well-being are available to all employees.
15. Goodlife Fitness Corporate Membership
16. Our employees can take advantage of reduced annual membership fees.
17. Wellness Subsidy
18. Our employees can take advantage of wellness subsidy that can be put towards expenses for a variety of health and/or wellness related activities such as gym membership, purchase of home fitness equipment, yoga classes and dance classes.

About Dillon:

Dillon is a proudly Canadian, employee-owned, professional consulting firm specializing in planning, engineering, environmental science and management. We partner with clients to provide committed, collaborative, and inventive solutions to complex, multi-faceted projects. With over 20 offices and more than 1000 employees across Canada, Dillon offers a wide range of services related to building and improving facilities and infrastructure, protecting the environment, and developing communities.

Now operating for over 75 years, we continue to strive for excellence in everything we do. Dillon has been listed as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies for the past 18 years and has the distinction of having achieved Platinum Club member status in this program.

Employment Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Dillon:

Dillon is committed to the principles of employment equity, inclusiveness, and diversity within our organization. We strive to achieve a workplace where opportunities are based on skills and abilities and that respects and values differences.

Inclusion is more than a word to us, it is the way we choose to run our business. We encourage you to contact us if you require accommodation during the interview process.

We would love to hear from you!