CADD Manager/BIM Coordinator-Transit & Multimodal Design

CDM Smith is an engineering and design firm providing transportation and infrastructure solutions. The CADD Manager/BIM Coordinator will lead intelligent model coordination for transit and multimodal projects, integrating models across multiple design disciplines, managing clash detection, and ensuring compliance with CADD/BIM standards. The role also includes developing BIM Execution Plans, mentoring staff, supporting design activities, and coordinating with clients, agencies, and subconsultants.

Responsibilities:

• Cross-discipline coordination — Serves 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
• Model coordination & clash detection — Runs clash detection in Navisworks and leads resolution across disciplines, catching conflicts early rather than in late-stage design or construction
• Standards & governance — Establishes, documents, and enforces CADD/BIM standards, templates, and workflows across offices, built on the Autodesk stack and compliant with governing transit agency and DOT design criteria
• Mentorship & guidance — Provides lower-level modeling personnel with design sketches for preparation of finished design drawings and general layouts, and guidance in refining technical requirements; mentors and trains production staff across offices to build a repeatable, institutional capability
• Acts as Intelligent Modeling Coordinator for basic to highly complex projects during the project lifecycle to ensure coordination between the design team
• Performs crosscheck of drawings to ensure consistency of drawings, cross sections, section placement, and layering guidelines, and adherence to the firm's Q/QC standards
• Performs 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)
• Reviews manufacturers' or fabricators' prints for aid in design documents
• Determines material needs and performs necessary calculations using accepted formulas and references per the firm's standards
• Establishes design criteria for assigned phases of a project requiring the application of engineering principles, material properties, and familiarity with construction, installation, and maintenance procedures
• Provides general conceptual input to projects during the planning stages and supports or leads field assignments as required
• Develops BIM Execution Plans, contributes to model-based deliverable scoping, and advises pursuit teams on integration approach, LOD, and production level of effort (LOE)
• Interfaces with clients, agencies, and subconsultants on model deliverable requirements, coordination expectations, and data handoff standards
• Performs 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
• Performs other duties as required

Requirements:

• 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
• High School diploma or equivalent with vocational technical training in basic CADD drafting technology and intelligent modeling
• 12 years of related experience
• Equivalent additional directly related experience will be considered in lieu of a degree
• Transit project experience — Experience on transit-specific projects (BRT, LRT/rail, station and platform design, transit facilities)
• Agency & DOT standards — 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)
• Bentley cross-platform capability — 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