BIM Designer & Coordinator: Civil

Overview

Civil BIM Designer & Coordinator supporting planning and design of large-scale, mission-critical data center campuses and associated power generation, energy storage, and utility facilities.

What you'll do

• Prepare layout, grading, routing, and earthwork options for early design reviews, incorporating noise, exhaust dispersion, heat-rejection, safety, and environmental constraints.
• Model heavy-equipment delivery routes, turning movements, crane areas, laydown, maintenance clearances, staged construction, temporary-to-permanent generation transitions, and future expansion.
• Create and maintain surfaces, grading and earthwork models, equipment and building pads, roads, alignments, profiles, and corridors, incorporating flood protection, stormwater management, and containment or separation process-drainage requirements.
• Model gravity and pressure networks for gas supply, cooling and process water, fire water, wastewater, electrical duct banks, and communications.
• Coordinate utility models, routes, corridors, crossings, connections, and clearances with engineers, consultants, utility providers, vendors, and construction partners.
• Coordinate civil models with buildings, power plants, BESS, substations, water treatment plants, gas metering and conditioning facilities, cooling systems, and other site utilities.
• Support simple-cycle and combined-cycle gas turbine, reciprocating engine, and CHP layouts, incorporating equipment separation, service access, and fire access.
• Integrate vendor general arrangements, foundation footprints, equipment elevations, trenches, pits, and pipe-support locations with inputs from structural, geotechnical, mechanical, and electrical engineers.
• Coordinate civil interfaces for heat-recovery steam generators, steam-turbine facilities, heat exchangers, cooling towers, air-cooled condensers, radiator arrays, and thermal-distribution corridors.
• Manage Civil 3D data shortcuts, external references, coordinate systems, styles, templates, and parts libraries.
• Coordinate Civil 3D, Revit, vendor, and combined-discipline models, verifying coordinates, origins, elevations, units, orientation, and model alignment in Navisworks.
• Lead model reviews, investigate clashes and spatial conflicts, communicate design changes, and track issues through resolution.
• Review civil models and drawings for completeness, reference integrity, consistency, and compliance with project BIM requirements.
• Prepare plans, profiles, sections, model exports, review packages, and model-based quantities appropriate to each project phase.
• Maintain reusable content, document workflows, and improve delivery across data center, power-generation, energy-storage, and utility projects.

What you'll need

• Minimum 8 years of civil design, BIM modeling, or civil infrastructure drafting experience.
• Relevant degree/diploma or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience supporting mission-critical facilities or complex industrial infrastructure across multiple disciplines.
• Advanced Civil 3D and AutoCAD proficiency, including grading, corridors, utility networks, sheet production, data shortcuts, references, coordinate systems, and model dependencies.
• Experience with site-survey data, GIS, point clouds, NavVis or similar laser-scanning/reality-capture workflows.
• Experience with Navisworks, Revizto, and Autodesk Forma for model coordination, issue tracking, and markups.
• Ability to independently deliver civil packages, interpret engineering and vendor information, identify missing inputs, and escalate engineering decisions appropriately.
• Strong communication and organizational skills across changing priorities and concurrent projects.

Nice to have

• Direct experience with hyperscale, colocation, or other mission-critical data center campuses, from conceptual site planning through detailed design and construction coordination.
• Experience supporting civil design and model coordination for gas turbine or reciprocating engine power plants, combined-cycle or CHP facilities, BESS installations, water treatment plants, gas metering and conditioning facilities, or comparable industrial infrastructure.
• Familiarity with OEM installation requirements, equipment and foundation interfaces, maintenance envelopes, and balance-of-plant infrastructure.
• Familiarity with Revit-to-Civil 3D workflows, including building locations, elevations, utility interfaces, and phased campus development.
• Experience with GIS, survey data, point clouds, and civil data exchange workflows.
• Experience reviewing consultant models, BIM execution plans, levels of development, model quality, and common data environments.
• Experience improving production through Dynamo, scripting, or other automation tools.
• For candidates with deeper experience, the ability to guide complex civil modeling packages, mentor colleagues, and improve shared standards.

Details

• Remote, United States.
• Work involves close collaboration with civil engineers, BIM team, discipline designers, equipment vendors, and delivery partners.