Global BIM Lead: Standards, Automation & Data

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM); New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Retirement support

Paid time off

Professional development

Job summary

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) is seeking a senior BIM Leader to drive firmwide BIM workflows and automation across architecture and structural engineering. You will oversee standards, develop tools, and coordinate with Design Technology experts to optimize project delivery.

With 8+ years in digital tools for AEC, you will shape BIM strategy, QA/QC, and data management while training teams and guiding the adoption of new workflows within SOM's global practice.

Qualifications

• Completion of a professional degree in Architecture, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 8 years of focused professional experience in applying and developing digital tools and processes to AEC project work, including experience in Revit to document a variety of large-scale building projects.
• Demonstrates attention to detail and consistency in the work.
• General knowledge of architectural practice including site-planning, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical engineering, and construction.
• Demonstrated knowledge of architectural design, documentation, detailing, building materials, construction techniques, building systems selection, related engineering principles and building codes.
• Wide knowledge of concepts, workflows and tools used in other design technology fields such as Computational Design, Performance Analysis/Simulation, Visualization, etc.
• General understanding of sustainable strategies and principles including familiarity with LEED or other green building rating systems.
• Demonstrated expertise in digital tools such as Revit, Forma, Dynamo, and Revizto.
• Demonstrated understanding of scripting, programming, Grasshopper, Rhino and their relationship to BIM workflow.
• Demonstrated experience in data visualization and ability to create engaging visual communication.
• Demonstrates proficiency in Google Workspace, Adobe, Miro, and other business communication and collaboration tools.
• LEED or other green building accreditation preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and firmwide implementation of BIM workflows, custom applications, and integrations across our architecture and structural engineering disciplines’ digital ecosystem.
• Explores, defines, and helps oversee the firmwide implementation of SOM’s BIM workflows across the full project lifecycle for our architecture and structural engineering disciplines, working with the firmwide Design Technology team.
• Works with the BIM Standards Lead to establish standards, assets, guidelines, and best practices for BIM workflows, collaborating with SOM’s firmwide Design Technology team, BIM leaders, and computational design experts.
• Develop, test, and deploy automation and agentic tools and standardized workflows for delivery phases to streamline documentation and reduce manual effort.
• This may include automated sheet creation, model data organization, automated dimensioning and tagging, and model health checking.
• Implement automated QA/QC protocols and data-validation pipelines to ensure models meet required Level of Development (LOD) standards, internal modeling and drawing standards, and contain accurate asset and material parameters required for downstream construction coordination, cost and embodied carbon tracking.
• Design and support digital workflows for coordination and Construction Administration, including model-based issue tracking, coordination clash resolution, digital submittal reviews, and tracking of field changes to maintain design integrity through construction.
• Develops and implements BIM data management strategies for projects of various types, phases, and scales to fulfill client deliverables and directly feed our internal data lakehouse of project design information.
• Maintains comprehensive documentation of standard assets and workflows.
• Develops training plans and materials for SOM's BIM best practices.
• In support of training the trainers, organizes and conducts initial training sessions to promote BIM workflows and best practices as part of program roll-outs.
• Contributes to tools and processes related to project specifications, tracking of material lists, energy, water and carbon use intensities on Projects.
• Leads organization, management and maintenance of BIM technologies and other related resources in collaboration with the Office of Technology.
• Keeps informed of industry standards, trends and developments related to BIM practices.
• Performs quality assurance testing of new tools related to BIM or asset management.
• Manages planning, development and advancement of innovative ideas/solutions to support BIM workflow.
• Coordinates such development with other Design Technology subject matter experts.
• Manages external parties to develop standard content or custom tool development within the framework and infrastructure defined by Office of Technology; Manages change, adoption and integration of new standard or workflow into existing BIM workflows.
• Additional expertise in one or more of the following specialities is highly beneficial: computational design, environmental performance analysis, visualization, AI-driven automation and design, scripting and software development, digital fabrication, DfMA / industrialized construction, and construction-phase BIM efforts.

Education

Professional degree in Architecture, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Revit

Forma

Dynamo

Revizto

Grasshopper

Rhino

Google Workspace

Adobe

Miro

Job description

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) is seeking a senior BIM Leader to drive firmwide BIM workflows and automation across architecture and structural engineering. You will oversee standards, develop tools, and coordinate with Design Technology experts to optimize project delivery.

With 8+ years in digital tools for AEC, you will shape BIM strategy, QA/QC, and data management while training teams and guiding the adoption of new workflows within SOM's global practice.