Job Description

About us:

The University of Toronto\'s Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering offers a dynamic compendium of research and academic programs with a mandate that spans a wide range of applications in professional practice, encompassing the built environment and its infrastructure, transportation engineering and planning, structural engineering, environmental engineering, mining and geomechanics. Our department seeks to uphold and strengthen its position as a preeminent leader in education and research, and to continue to develop sustainable solutions for the global community across the spectrum from mineral engineering to urban infrastructure.

Your opportunity:

The Building Information Modelling Coordinator will be an integral member of the Centre for the Sustainable Built Environment (CSBE) within the Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering. They will work with faculty and students in the Centre to create new data on construction material use in buildings and cities, to maintain and build on the existing dataset and support incoming students to learn the skills and methods they need to create and work with the data. The position provides support for collaboration with industry partners in collecting of confidential building drawings and the proper storing and processing of the drawings. They will build REVIT BIMs (or equivalent software) and work with other material take off software as appropriate. The Building Information Modelling Coordinator will support the writing and publishing of academic papers and non-academic writing on research stemming from the data created. They will follow, and support others in following, strict confidentiality and data control protocols.

Your responsibilities will include:

Coding quantitative research data on construction material use in buildings and cities

Applying established standards when determining key data to be documented in database systems

Collecting experimental data on construction material use, verifying results and passing on findings

Formatting data collected for presentations and reports (i.e. data on construction material use in buildings and cities)

Maintaining information in Building Information Modelling software/databases

Organizing data on construction material use into an analyzable format

Providing detailed information on data analysis findings to Principal Investigator and stakeholders

Essential Qualifications:

Bachelor\'s Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience

Minimum one year related experience in building information modelling

Demonstrated experience working with Revit or similar BIM software

Demonstrated experience completing material quantity take offs

Experience recording experiment results and organizing research data

Intermediate computer skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills

Demonstrated ability to work under pressure to meet multiple competing deadlines

Demonstrated commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion and the promotion of a respectful and collegial learning and working environment

Assets (Nonessential):

Experience with database creation/management

Experience in an academic research environment

Experience in industry

Experience working with building drawings

To be successful in this role you will be:

Meticulous

Motivated self-learner

Organized

Patient

University of Toronto