OpenAI Civil BIM Designer & Coordinator responsible for developing and coordinating civil models for large-scale data center campuses using Civil 3D and AutoCAD. This role supports site layouts, grading, drainage, roads, and utilities integration.
Responsibilities
We are seeking a hands-on Civil BIM Designer & Coordinator with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience to support the planning and design of large-scale, mission-critical data center campuses and associated power generation, energy storage, and utility facilities.
We are looking for a hands-on civil specialist who can independently manage modeling assignments, communicate design dependencies, and maintain quality as projects evolve.
Advance feasibility, constructability, and phasing: Prepare layout, grading, routing, and earthwork options for early design reviews; incorporate 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.
Lead civil site development: Create and maintain surfaces, grading and earthwork models, equipment and building pads, roads, alignments, profiles, and corridors. Incorporate flood protection, stormwater management, and containment or separation process-drainage requirements.
Develop and coordinate plant utility systems: 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.
Integrate campus and power-generation infrastructure: 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 while incorporating equipment separation, service access, and fire access.
Coordinate equipment, foundation, and thermal interfaces: 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.
Govern civil model data and multidisciplinary alignment: Manage Civil 3D data shortcuts, external references, coordinate systems, styles, templates, and parts libraries. Coordinate Civil 3D, Revit, vendor, and combined-discipline models; verify coordinates, origins, elevations, units, orientation, and model alignment in Navisworks.
Drive coordination and quality: 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.
Deliver and improve civil BIM: 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.
Qualification
Minimum 8 years of civil designExperience with site-survey dataExperience with NavisworksDirect experience with hyperscaleExperience with GISExperience reviewing consultant modelsFor candidates with deeper experience
Required
Minimum 8 years of civil design, BIM modeling, or civil infrastructure drafting experience, plus a 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.
Preferred
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 one or more of the following: 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.
