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Architectural Technician (Facades)

Want to work with the most sought-after minds and most-talked about projects? 

Buro Happold is recruiting for a Facades BIM Specialist to join our Specialist BIM team. This role would be based in our London office.

This role is suited to a candidate from an architectural or engineering, production and delivery background looking for an opportunity to pursue a career within a vibrant multi-disciplinary practice.

We proudly support hybrid working however, candidates will be expected to be in our office 2-3 days a week.

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The Facades BIM Specialist will work as part of the Specialist BIM team, specialising in the areas of digital delivery and BIM for the facades team, working with team members to drive implementation of best practice as well as our BIM policy. The objective is to make working with BIM workflows efficient and Business as Usual for all applicable projects. The Facades BIM Specialist will work with the Specialist BIM Team and Group BIM Leads to challenge our highly engaged community of Facade Consultants and Engineers to work together to develop increasingly streamlined and automated approaches to their project delivery. 

The role reports directly to the Specialists BIM Lead and Facades Group Director and will be responsible for the delivery and support of facades projects. 

Key Duties

  • Working closely with the Facades team to deliver high quality BIM projects to agreed deadlines.
  • Producing detailed, coordinated Revit models to a high level of detail.
  • Create detailed façade Revit family groups and CAD details
  • Support BIM Lead with design model maintenance. 
  • Troubleshoot problems.
  • Providing guidance and advice to team members on the use of Revit techniques
  • Involvement in a wide variety of project types including medium to large scale projects.
  • Engaging with the wider Buro Happold BIM community to foster inter-office relationships and improvement of global processes.

Your skills & experience

  • Experience working in production and delivery.
  • Experience working with Autodesk Products (Revit, Civil 3D).
  • Good knowledge of Revit Families (creating and editing).
  • Experience on working on BIM360/ACC desirable but not essential.
  • Sound communication skills, willingness to work as part of a team, not being afraid to discuss your ideas and way of thinking.
  • A proactive approach to your own learning and technical development.
  • A keen interest in the implementation of digital design tools and scripting to improve efficiency and workflows.
  • Experience and awareness of Dynamo or other automation practices would be advantageous but not essential.
  • Experience in Architectural or Structural discipline.
  • Ideally HNC, HND, BEng/BArch or MSc/MArch in a relevant discipline.

What we offer

  • Hybrid working arrangements. 
  • Attractive salary and benefits package including life assurance and income protection.
  • Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.  
  • Generous company pension scheme.
  • Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts 
  • Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
  • 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month
  • A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.  
  • Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions   
  • A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring
  • An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional. 

A place for everyone

Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.   

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive. 

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application. 


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