Overview
BIM Specialist Jobs in Gauteng, South Africa at Teraco – A Digital Realty Company
Title: BIM Specialist
Company: Teraco – A Digital Realty Company
Location: Gauteng, South Africa
Teraco Data Environments
2026/04/28 Gauteng
Job Reference Number: BS_JB1
Department: Operations
Business Unit
Industry: Information Technology
Job Type: Permanent
Positions Available: 1
Salary: Market Related
This position requires bridging technology, data, and workflows to create a seamless ecosystem where Design, Construction and Operations are fully connected. The position focuses on aligning BIM with enterprise-wide Digital Integration initiatives, ensuring it becomes a core component of the Organization’s transformation journey.
Job Description
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
This position requires bridging technology, data, and workflows to create a seamless ecosystem where Design, Construction and Operations are fully connected. The position focuses on aligning BIM with enterprise-wide Digital Integration initiatives, ensuring it becomes a core component of the Organization’s transformation journey.
BIM Administration
MAIN FUNCTIONS OF THE JOB
- Development and implementation of procedures, policies and protocols aimed at increasing efficiencies in document handling i.e. Work Instructions, Standards and Protocols, Asset Registers, Drawing/Model Naming Conventions, ensuring compliance with Teraco standards.
- Develop BIM Execution Plans (BEP) to manage roles, deliverables and data sharing strategies for stakeholders.
- Work together with the BIM Manager & BIM Coordinator in acquiring and organizing As-Built Data from Teraco’s Legacy Sites to support ongoing Fit-out projects.
- Facilitate seamless handover of BIM Models from Design Consultants (Greenfield Projects) to the BIM Team ensuring production of post-handover Federated Models & Digital Twins which are rich in asset data, thus supporting future Operations and Facility Management.
- Collaborate with external Consultants, Architects and Professionals, to ensure that as-built data fidelity is maintained after the handover of facilities to the Operations and IM teams.
- Work together with the BIM Coordinator to ensure that any changes post-handover follow the required BIM practices and are properly documented and tracked.
- Make use of smart technologies to efficiently maintain existing BIM workflows across multiple departments.
- Evaluate and introduce BIM software solutions, plugins and automation tools to streamline repetitive tasks that exist within the administrative space.
- Establish new templates, processes, workflows, and protocols for implementation within the project design space.
Digital Integration And Development
- Integrate multiple departments actively using Autodesk Forma. (IDEV, IM, OIMP & FIN).
- Further development and integration of OIMP input into design and delivery within the IDEV project space.
- Maintain and enforce BIM Conformance, both across the various departments and the projects which correspond to them.
- Develop project insight, analytics and intelligent reporting in dashboard format, across various department utilising Autodesk Forma Meta-data.
- Simplify and Automate project reporting and access to project information for key decision-making by business.
- Lead the development and implementation of Autodesk Forma "Assets", enabling asset tracking within Digital Twins with a focus on seamless information transfer to Operations and Maintenance teams.
- Development and maintenance of Digital Twins post project handover by BIM Department.
Governance
- Develop and maintain global standards, guidelines and discipline in Teraco’s BIM way-of-work and protocols across OIMP, IDEV and IM Supply Chain departments within Teraco.
- Facilitate consultations between internal teams, external consultants, and clients to resolve collaborative issues within Teraco’s BIM CDE & Ecosystem to maintain data integrity.
- Development of Change Management best practice within both the IDEV and IM project space.
Training & Upskilling
- Continuous professional development of Teraco employees in the use of Autodesk Forma, and its various tools and functionality.
- Training and upskilling of Project Teams, including but not limited to consultants and contractors in the use of Autodesk Forma and supporting tools.
Job Requirements
Skills Requirement
- Solid understanding of linking models generated from different resources (internal & external), stakeholders and vendors.
- Prior proven experience in main functions of the role.
- High attention to detail
- Good communication skills
- Good technical skills
- Active listening – ability to understand requirements
- Proactive problem solver
- Ability to work independently & be a positive team player
- Self-motivated and able to motivate others
- Conducts self professionally, exhibits high levels of tolerance and patience
- Responsible for continued learning and self-development
- Quick response to potentially critical situations
- Performs well under pressure
Qualifications And Experience
- Minimum Qualifications: Post Graduate Qualification in the Built Environment (Architecture or MEP)
- Proven track record with minimum 5 years using Autodesk Suite of BIM Tools within the construction environment. This includes Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD and Autodesk Forma (formally Autodesk Construction Cloud).
- Sound knowledge of International BIM Best Practice
- Knowledge of Dynamo for Autodesk Revit, Python Programming and Revit API.