Digital Project Manager

Who we are

DBM Vircon, a premier construction modeling, detailing and digital engineering company, delivers high-profile projects with state-of-the-art technology, uncompromising detail and millimeter precision. At DBM Vircon we see the future through a very different lens. With over five decades of experience in the mining, energy, and infrastructure sectors, DBM Vircon is recognized as one of the industry-leading design/detailing and digital engineering companies. Drawing upon over 900 team members, with experience in over 6 continents, we regularly challenge the status quo by delivering high-end solutions and integrated delivery methods on some of the industry’s largest projects. Innovation, eminence, and digital are at the heart of everything we do.

We're growing — and we're looking for a sharp, client-ready Digital Project Manager to join our expanding digital engineering team across a genuinely diverse project portfolio: buildings, infrastructure, Games 32, defence, and energy & utilities.

This isn't a desk-bound coordination role. You'll be deep in the work — managing federated models, driving BIM execution plans, running clash detection, and standing in front of clients with the confidence to own the room.

We're after someone who brings both the technical chops (Revit, ACC, Navisworks, ISO 19650 — the real stack) and the mindset: curious, humble, collaborative, and hungry to keep developing as the tools and the work evolve. If you've got 5+ years in AEC, energy, or industrial sectors and you're looking for a team that takes digital engineering seriously, we want to hear from you.

Bonus points if you're eligible for defence clearance or have construction-site experience. Even more if you've got an eye for innovation and enjoy contributing to R&D beyond your day-to-day delivery.

Position Value Proposition

The Digital Project Manager (DPM) manages the delivery of digital engineering (DE) / BIM services on assigned projects and contributes to the continuous improvement of DBM Vircon’s digital engineering processes. Commitment, discipline, communication skills, trustful relationship-building, innovation and a solution-focused drive are integral to the role, alongside the requisite technical skills.

A client-facing role built on trust, collaboration and credible stakeholder relationships. The DPM works within multidisciplinary teams and is expected to lead small- to medium-sized projects independently.

Core Responsibilities

General delivery

• Understand the engagement type, scope, milestones and deliverables across the full project lifecycle, from setup to closure.
• Manage the day-to-day delivery of the project, or specific tasks within it, to industry and DBM Vircon standards.
• Build and maintain professional, trustful relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Be responsible for delivering project reports, including monthly reports.
• Coordinate and manage project tasks with other team members to ensure the high-quality delivery of a project.

Digital engineering / BIM delivery

• Coordinate with client, consultants, sub-contractors and delivery teams across the project lifecycle.
• Lead, contribute to and oversee the creation, structure and management of the project’s federated model.
• Create and develop project-specific DE / BIM plans using ISO-aligned terminology (e.g. BIM Execution Plan, Digital Engineering Management Plan), aligned with the latest industry standards and best practices.
• Set up and administer the Common Data Environment (CDE) and information-management workflows to ISO 19650.
• Run clash detection and coordination, host coordination meetings, and drive resolution.
• Review and quality-check information models and digital content against project requirements.
• Work with project teams to develop and optimise digital workflows, processes and applications.

Innovation

• Identify opportunities where better processes or platform technologies would benefit the project delivery, client and DBM Vircon.
• Contribute to R&D working groups.

Business support

• Maintain client relationships and communicate identified opportunities within existing relationships and project delivery.
• Identify and communicate project related risks to the project and team leads.
• Contribute to identifying new business opportunities within the industry and communicating them to the leadership team.

Essential

• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Transparency and professionalism in communication
• Time management, planning & organisation, and personal initiative.
• Problem solving.
• Collaboration & teamwork, commitment, integrity & trust, and customer/client focus.
• Sound working knowledge of digital engineering / BIM processes.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Previous digital engineering experience (DE, BIM, modelling/drafting).
• Client-facing confidence — able to build trust with clients (without necessarily owning the relationship).

Core

• Resilience and the ability to adapt and thrive in fast-paced work environments.
• Discipline, innovation/creativity and commercial awareness.
• Construction / built-environment knowledge across the project lifecycle.
• Competent, hands-on federated model creation and management.
• Working proficiency across the Autodesk Construction Cloud (Forma/ACC), Navisworks, Revit and Revizto stack.
• Solid knowledge of information management principles and ISO 19650.
• Ability to lead small-to-medium projects independently.

Desirable

• Mentoring and developing others.
• Clash detection depth, OpenBIM workflows & interoperability, automation, model review/QA-QC.
• Awareness of relational databases / data management and the asset lifecycle (information transfer into asset/facility management) — required as awareness, not as a hands-on responsibility.
• Cross-cultural awareness, knowledge sharing, continuous-improvement mindset, critical thinking, interpersonal savvy.
• Construction-site experience; defence-clearance eligibility; permanent residency / Australian citizenship.

Attitude

We are looking for a team player who is genuinely curious and eager to learn, and who keeps developing their skills as the work and technology evolve. They communicate clearly and openly with colleagues, clients and contractors alike, and listen as well as they speak. They bring a humble approach, are comfortable asking and questioning, ask the right questions, understand the collective effort and shares and communicates credit, comfortable to be transparent about what they know and they don’t, they treat people with respect and genuinely care about their team, their clients and the quality of the work they deliver.

Work Experience

• Preferred: 5+ years professional experience in the AEC, energy, mining or industrial sectors.
• Not a strict deal-breaker. A strong candidate with ~3 years may be considered — particularly an internal coordinator already conditioned to DBM Vircon’s ways of working. External candidates would typically be expected to bring 5+ years.
• For reference across the ladder: DPM 5+ years · Senior DPM 7+ · Service Lead 10+ with relevant sector experience.

Education/Training

Tertiary qualification related to the construction industry (architecture, engineering, construction management or similar). Extensive relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of formal education.

Software & Technology

What matters is the capability, not the specific tool: information management, model federation, clash detection, CDE administration, and drawing/document management. The tools below are indicative examples of where these capabilities are applied — not a mandatory checklist (unless hiring for a specific task).

Values

DBM Vircon is a values-based organization and it is essential that the core values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors of the successful applicant are aligned with that of DBM Vircon:

• Integrity – You behave and act with the highest standard of integrity and honesty;
• Excellence – You strive for excellence to deliver innovative and quality solutions and outcomes. Curiosity is integral to your approach to achieve this – always looking for better ways to do things. You are determined to succeed in all of your actions;
• Collaboration – You seamlessly collaborate;
• Respect – You respect and value other people – you are inclusive in your behaviors and actions. You inspire, empower and help other people to grow, succeed and lead;
• Empathy – You understand, look after and serve other people.

DBM Vircon believes that when people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, points of view and capabilities work together there is increased organizational competence, innovation and performance. Diversity and inclusion assist us to come up with exciting ideas and solutions to problems, helping us to deliver a quality, distinct service to our wide range of clients. To strengthen our diversity, we welcome and strongly encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply.

If you would like to join our team, please apply now by submitting your resume addressing the above criteria.

Please note that only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.