Senior Technical Lead BIM - Structural - "High-rise & Complex Buildings" - Chennai

Senior Technical Lead BIM - Structural - "High-rise & Complex Buildings" - Chennai

Company Description

About Ramboll

Founded in Denmark, Ramboll is a foundation-owned people company. We have more than 18,000 experts working across our global operations in 35 countries. Our experts are leaders in their fields, developing and delivering innovative solutions in diverse markets including Buildings, Transport, Planning & Urban Design, Water, Environment & Health, Energy, and Management Consulting. We invite you to contribute to a more sustainable future working in an open, collaborative, and empowering company. Combining local experience with global knowledge, we together shape the societies of tomorrow.

Ramboll in India

Ramboll India is part of Ramboll Group owned by the Ramboll Foundation, with strong corporate values and long-term thinking. In India we have major offices in Gurugram, Noida, Hyderabad, Chennai and Mumbai. Here, you can apply your professional passion for high quality and delivering innovative solutions within Buildings, Transport, Water, Environment & Health, Energy and Management Consulting. We invite you to contribute to a sustainable future, working in an open, collaborative, and empowering culture.

We invite you to bring your passion, curiosity, positive energy, and technical expertise to develop sustainable solutions for industry projects worldwide. To succeed in this role, you must possess a strong technical background in industry engineering (Process, Chemical, Petrochemical, etc.), extensive experience as a Piping and Layout specialist, and the ability to lead project teams across Ramboll’s offices and geographies within the Plant Design discipline.

You will join our High-Rise Buildings Department

As our new Senior Technical Lead BIM - High Rise Structure, you will be part of our global High-Rise department, Ramboll’s dedicated team of Highrise experts which have designed over 150 tall building projects globally, including some of the most technically challenging. You would be responsible to coordinate with project managers and/or engineers for Analysis and Design work in the Highrise department in Chennai to support the global department which also has offices in Copenhagen, UK, Middle East, and Singapore.
The BIM Lead owns day-to-day resourcing and quality performance of the BIM function, which sits entirely within REC. The role gives the BIM function a single point of accountability for resource allocation, output quality and staff development.

Job Description

Primary Responsibilities

• Allocate BIM staff across active projects in line with project delivery plans and the Department's resourcing methodology.
• Identify resourcing gaps or conflicts early and raise them to the Head of Department and the relevant Project Lead before they affect delivery, in line with the Project Delivery and Governance Guideline.
• Own overall BIM output quality and drawing presentation standards across REC.
• Set and monitor productivity and quality standards for the BIM team, distinct from the project-level quality checks performed by the BIM Quality Lead and Senior BIM Coordinator(s).
• Escalate any resourcing decision beyond the Department's established methodology, and any matter that cannot be resolved through coordination with the Quality function or the relevant Project Lead, to the Head of Department.
• Maintain visibility of BIM team capacity and utilisation across REC.

Secondary Responsibilities

• Design and deliver a structured training scheme for the BIM team, covering software proficiency, modelling standards and productivity.
• Assign team members to the training scheme and track completion and resulting quality/productivity improvement.
• Identify individual skill gaps and provide or arrange targeted training as needed.
• Coordinate with Project Leads and Project BIM Leads on project-specific BIM resourcing and delivery needs.
• Report resourcing status, training progress and quality trends to the Head of Department on a regular basis.

Ideal Character Type

• Hands-on and detail-focused: comfortable reviewing models and drawings directly, not managing purely at a distance.
• Owns resourcing and quality outcomes; escalates early rather than explaining late.
• Calm and structured under multiple concurrent project deadlines.
• Coaching mindset: builds capability in the team through training rather than working around gaps.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Degree or diploma in a relevant BIM, architectural technology or engineering discipline.
• Minimum 25 years of relevant BIM experience, including substantial experience in a managerial or lead capacity with direct responsibility for team and resource management, ideally within a multi-disciplinary structural or MEP design environment.
• Proven track record with top-tier engineering consultancies in the region.
• Relevant professional accreditations required.
• Demonstrated experience designing or delivering structured training programmes for technical teams.
• Strong working knowledge of BIM standards, modelling software (e.g. Revit) and quality/productivity benchmarking.

Why This Role May Interest You

• Genuine ownership of the BIM function's resourcing, quality standards and training programme.
• A newly defined role with a direct hand in shaping how BIM is structured across REC.
• Group backing for the tools and training the function needs.

Additional Information

Working at Ramboll

To work at Ramboll means being part of a people organisation. We are focused on knowledge sharing and collaboration across competence areas and geography, and we aim for a strong diversity among our employees. This enables us to solve a broad range of projects, and we firmly believe that cross-collaboration leads to creative and longstanding solutions. Thus, the possibilities at Ramboll are many and diverse –we invest a lot in the development of people and offer career paths tailored for each individual.

How to apply

If you are interested in applying, please send your application through our online recruitment system by clicking the link ‘apply’ below. Attach your CV, cover letter and relevant documents showcasing why you are the right fit for the role, and when you are available to start. We look forward to receiving your application.

Experience Level

Senior Level