BIM Designer & Coordinator: Civil

The role

You will develop, coordinate, and maintain civil models for large-scale data center campuses and utility facilities. You will use Civil 3D and AutoCAD to manage site layouts, grading, drainage, roads, and utilities.

What you will do

• Prepare layout, grading, routing, and earthwork options for early design reviews
• Model heavy-equipment delivery routes, turning movements, crane areas, and staged construction
• Create and maintain surfaces, grading, earthwork models, roads, and alignments
• Model gravity and pressure networks for gas, water, wastewater, and electrical duct banks
• Coordinate civil models with buildings, power plants, BESS, and substations
• Integrate vendor general arrangements and foundation footprints with other disciplines
• Manage Civil 3D data shortcuts, external references, and coordinate systems
• Lead model reviews and investigate clashes and spatial conflicts
• Prepare plans, profiles, sections, and model-based quantities
• Maintain reusable content and improve delivery workflows

Required qualifications

• 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
• Advanced Civil 3D and AutoCAD proficiency
• Experience with site-survey data, GIS, point clouds, NavVis or similar laser-scanning workflows
• Experience with Navisworks, Revizto, and Autodesk Forma

Nice to have

• Direct experience with hyperscale, colocation, or other mission-critical data center campuses
• Experience supporting civil design for gas turbine or reciprocating engine power plants, combined-cycle or CHP facilities, BESS installations, or water treatment plants
• Familiarity with OEM installation requirements, equipment and foundation interfaces, and maintenance envelopes
• Familiarity with Revit-to-Civil 3D workflows
• Experience with GIS, survey data, point clouds, and civil data exchange workflows
• Experience reviewing consultant models, BIM execution plans, and common data environments
• Experience improving production through Dynamo, scripting, or other automation tools
• Ability to guide complex civil modeling packages and mentor colleagues

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. Their Industrial Compute team develops the infrastructure that powers OpenAI’s AI systems.