CADD Manager/BIM Coordinator-Transit & Multimodal Design

About the Role

This position can be based in any of our US-based CDM Smith offices. With high-level goals provided, you will prepare basic to highly complex intelligent models, details, and/or general arrangement drawings through proper translation of level of design (LOD). On transit and multimodal projects, you will coordinate and integrate intelligent models across all design disciplines—architecture, vertical structures, transportation structures, roadway design, and MEP—into federated, clash-checked, deliverable-ready models.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the firm’s go-to Intelligent Modeling Coordinator for transit and multimodal projects, coordinating deliverables across architecture, vertical structures, transportation structures, roadway design, and MEP into a single federated, clash-checked model throughout the project lifecycle.
• Run clash detection in Navisworks and lead resolution across disciplines, catching conflicts early rather than in late-stage design or construction.
• Establish, document, and enforce CADD/BIM standards, templates, and workflows across offices, built on the Autodesk stack and compliant with governing transit agency and DOT design criteria.
• Provide lower-level modeling personnel with design sketches for preparation of finished design drawings and general layouts, and guidance in refining technical requirements; mentor and train production staff across offices to build a repeatable, institutional capability.
• Act as Intelligent Modeling Coordinator for basic to highly complex projects during the project lifecycle to ensure coordination between the design team.
• Perform crosschecks of drawings to ensure consistency of drawings, cross sections, section placement, and layering guidelines, and adherence to the firm’s Q/QC standards.
• Perform CADD/technical support tasks such as verifying intelligent model integrity, managing model health and versioning, and maintaining interoperability across the Autodesk toolset (and Bentley where projects require it).
• Review manufacturers' or fabricators' prints for aid in design documents.
• Determine material needs and perform necessary calculations using accepted formulas and references per the firm’s standards.
• Establish design criteria for assigned phases of a project requiring the application of engineering principles, material properties, and familiarity with construction, installation, and maintenance procedures.
• Provide general conceptual input to projects during the planning stages and support or lead field assignments as required.
• Develop BIM Execution Plans, contribute to model-based deliverable scoping, and advise pursuit teams on integration approach, LOD, and production level of effort (LOE).
• Interface with clients, agencies, and subconsultants on model deliverable requirements, coordination expectations, and data handoff standards.
• Perform related fundamental engineering support tasks such as plotting drawings, preparing transmittals and overnight packages, file management, filing and distributing prints, assisting in simple design calculations, and coordinating specifications with drawings.
• Perform other duties as required.

Skills & Abilities

• Cross-discipline coordination: Demonstrated ability to coordinate intelligent models across multiple design disciplines—architecture, vertical structures, transportation structures, roadway design, and MEP. This is the central skill for the role.
• Agency & DOT standards: Strong working knowledge of transit agency design standards and DOT design standards, and the ability to build and enforce CADD/BIM standards that comply with them.
• Software fluency: Advanced working knowledge of intelligent modeling / CADD drafting commands and solid working knowledge of intelligent modeling technologies, with expert-level fluency in the Autodesk stack (Civil 3D / AutoCAD, Revit, Navisworks) as the primary production and coordination environment.
• Good communication skills with strict attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to be a flexible team player who adapts to changing requirements.
• Ability to train, mentor, and influence production staff across geographies and offices.
• Software experience in the use of Microsoft Office for design-related tasks.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent with vocational technical training in basic CADD drafting technology and intelligent modeling.
• 12 years of related experience.
• Domestic and/or international travel may be required (10% or less). The frequency of travel is contingent on specific duties, responsibilities, and the essential functions of the position, which may vary depending on workload and project demands.
• Equivalent additional directly related experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.

Preferred Qualifications

• Transit project experience—experience on transit-specific projects (BRT, LRT/rail, station and platform design, transit facilities).
• Direct familiarity with specific transit agency and DOT CADD/BIM standards and deliverable requirements (e.g., MARTA, MBTA, MTA, DART, CTA, and state DOTs such as GDOT, Caltrans, IDOT, TDOT, PennDOT).
• Working knowledge of the Bentley stack (MicroStation, OpenRoads Designer) for projects and agencies that mandate it—a strong bonus, not a substitute for Autodesk fluency.
• Experience authoring BIM Execution Plans and model-based deliverable scoping.
• Working knowledge of related tools and data-management platforms (Synchro, Autodesk Construction Cloud / BIM 360, ProjectWise).
• Prior role as a firm- or region-wide CADD/BIM resource supporting multiple offices.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating intelligent models across multiple disciplines (architecture, vertical/transportation structures, roadway, and MEP) on transportation or multimodal projects.

Pay

Pay range: USD $45.87 – $75.71 per hour.