Senior BIM Specialist — Data Center & Digital Delivery Lead

Jacobs; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401(k) with employer match

Paid time off

Job summary

Jacobs is seeking a Senior BIM Specialist to advance Digital Delivery on large data-center and advanced manufacturing projects. This role emphasizes hands-on modeling and technical leadership across multiple disciplines, combining BIM expertise with engineering coordination.

You will mentor designers, develop BEPs, and drive BIM quality while collaborating with Project Managers and Discipline Leads in a hybrid, US-wide environment. Expect broad project scope and fast-track delivery.

Qualifications

• Extensive BIM/design experience on data centers and mission-critical facilities.
• Advanced experience with Revit Structure and complex structural families.
• Experience coordinating multiple disciplines and BIM standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior BIM and Digital Delivery leadership for complex, multidisciplinary data center and advanced manufacturing projects.
• Lead implementation of project BIM standards, workflows, modeling methodologies, and Digital Delivery requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
• Lead or support development, implementation, and maintenance of BIM Execution Plans (BEPs).
• Establish project-specific modeling strategies, file structures, model breakdowns, worksharing practices, naming conventions, coordination procedures, and deliverable requirements.
• Interpret client BIM requirements and translate them into practical project workflows for engineering and design teams.
• Support implementation of applicable BIM and information-management standards, including ISO 19650 principles and requirements, where required by the project.
• Serve as a senior technical resource for project teams in resolving complex BIM, Revit, coordination, interoperability, and model-management issues.
• Partner with Digital Delivery leadership to advance BIM standards, best practices, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Remain actively involved in hands-on development, modification, coordination, and review of complex BIM models and construction documents.
• Develop and maintain detailed Revit models based on engineering calculations, design criteria, sketches, markups, design narratives, specifications, and interdisciplinary information.
• Translate engineering design intent into accurate, coordinated, and constructible models, plans, sections, details, schedules, and construction-document packages.
• Develop complex details, assemblies, model components, and Revit families as required by project conditions.
• Work directly with engineers and designers to develop solutions for challenging geometry, equipment interfaces, penetrations, supports, clearances, structural conditions, and other design interfaces.
• Apply practical knowledge of engineering design and construction methods to identify potential constructability and documentation issues.
• Support design development from conceptual and schematic design through detailed design, IFC/construction documents, construction administration, and record-model activities as required.
• Coordinate BIM activities across multiple simultaneous projects, scopes, packages, and design teams.
• Work directly with Project Managers, Design Managers, Engineering Managers, Discipline Leads, engineers, designers, and Digital Delivery professionals to establish and maintain project coordination requirements.
• Coordinate structural and architectural models with mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, civil, telecom, security, process, equipment, and other project disciplines.
• Develop, manage, and review federated multidisciplinary models.
• Facilitate or participate in BIM/model-coordination and clash-detection meetings.
• Identify model conflicts, design inconsistencies, incomplete information, spatial constraints, and constructability concerns and work with the appropriate engineering disciplines toward resolution.
• Track coordination issues through resolution and communicate outstanding risks to appropriate project and discipline leadership.
• Coordinate model exchanges and information requirements among internal teams, clients, contractors, vendors, and other project participants where applicable.
• Support coordination of owner-furnished and vendor equipment within complex data center environments.
• Support BIM delivery for complex hyperscale, colocation, mission-critical, and advanced manufacturing facilities.
• Coordinate high-density building systems and interfaces typical of data center environments, including structural systems, equipment rooms, electrical infrastructure, mechanical systems, overhead distribution, equipment supports, penetrations, and major utility pathways.
• Support coordination of repetitive building modules, equipment layouts, standardized design elements, and program-level design standards.
• Help project teams manage design changes and maintain model coordination in fast-track environments with overlapping design and construction packages.
• Support phased deliverables and multiple design packages where construction may begin before completion of the overall facility design.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve constructability, installation sequencing, accessibility, maintainability, and interdisciplinary coordination.
• Support field and construction teams by assisting with RFIs, design changes, shop-drawing coordination, model-based problem solving, and field coordination as required.
• Perform detailed BIM, model, drawing, and documentation QA/QC reviews to verify accuracy, completeness, coordination, and compliance with established project standards.
• Review models and construction documents developed by designers and other BIM professionals.
• Verify that model content accurately reflects engineering intent and approved design information.
• Identify discrepancies between models, drawings, details, schedules, specifications, and multidisciplinary design information.
• Support discipline and project quality processes before formal design submissions.
• Monitor model health, warnings, file performance, links, worksets, coordinates, and other technical model-management considerations.
• Help establish BIM quality metrics and model-checking procedures appropriate for large, complex projects.
• Promote a culture in which BIM quality is integrated into engineering delivery rather than treated as a final production check.
• Manage or support federated models and associated project information.
• Support development and maintenance of MIDPs, TIDPs, IFC exchanges, NWC files, coordination models, and other required digital deliverables.
• Manage model federation, linking, shared coordinates, model exchanges, and multidisciplinary coordination processes.
• Support Common Data Environment and document/model-control practices in accordance with project requirements.
• Assist project teams with model versioning, publishing, sharing, archiving, and information-exchange requirements.
• Help ensure BIM deliverables satisfy client, contractual, project, and applicable Digital Delivery requirements.
• Provide day-to-day technical direction and mentorship to BIM designers, modelers, technicians, and less-experienced team members.
• Review work, provide constructive technical feedback, and help team members develop stronger BIM, documentation, and coordination capabilities.
• Provide technical guidance to engineers who use Revit and related Digital Delivery tools.
• Develop and deliver BIM training, technical demonstrations, standards guidance, and project-specific onboarding.
• Promote consistent application of BIM standards across geographically distributed project teams.
• Share lessons learned and develop reusable solutions that improve quality and efficiency across projects.
• Serve as a technical liaison between engineering disciplines and Digital Delivery teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve BIM workflows through automation, standardization, interoperability, and emerging technologies.
• Develop or contribute to advanced Revit families, templates, libraries, standards, and repeatable project workflows.
• Support interoperability among Revit, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Navisworks, Tekla, Revizto, and other project delivery platforms as applicable.
• Evaluate new BIM and Digital Delivery technologies and recommend practical applications for project teams.
• Support automation of repetitive modeling, checking, data-management, and documentation activities.
• Stay current with evolving BIM, VDC, model-based delivery, digital-twin, and design-technology practices.
• Extensive BIM/design experience supporting data centers, mission-critical facilities, advanced manufacturing, semiconductor, industrial, power, or other highly complex facilities.
• Significant structural BIM and structural construction-document experience.
• Advanced experience with Revit Structure and development of complex structural families and details.
• Experience with AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Tekla, Autodesk Construction Cloud/BIM 360, Navisworks, Revizto, or related platforms.
• Experience coordinating structural steel, concrete, precast, masonry, equipment-support, and other complex structural systems.
• Working knowledge of ISO 19650 information-management principles.
• Experience with MIDP/TIDP development and IFC/openBIM workflows.
• Familiarity with 4D/5D BIM applications and model-based construction workflows.
• Experience supporting design-build, EPC/EPCM, or highly integrated design/construction delivery environments.
• Experience working with geographically distributed or global engineering and design teams.
• Experience developing BIM standards, templates, libraries, automation tools, or enterprise Digital Delivery workflows.
• Understanding of construction sequencing, fabrication/shop drawings, RFIs, submittals, and construction administration.
• Experience with field coordination and resolving model/design issues during construction.
• cation, or enterprise DC programs with Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon, or Equinix.
• AI/GPU and energy High-density power distribution at 20–60+ kW per rack; 400V busway, overhead PDU; BESS, on-site renewables, demand response, and PUE/WUE/ERE optimization.
• Commissioning FAT/SAT and IST experience for large generator plants, UPS systems, and critical power systems on hyperscale programs.
• Industry presence Active participation in IEEE PES, 7x24 Exchange, AFCOM, or Uptime Institute; published technical papers or conference presentations in mission‑critical power engineering.

Skills

BIM Design Experience

Revit

Data Center Projects

Coordination & QA

Leadership/Mentoring

Tools

AutoCAD

Civil 3D

Navisworks

Revizto

BIM 360/ACCD

Job description

Jacobs is seeking a Senior BIM Specialist to advance Digital Delivery on large data-center and advanced manufacturing projects. This role emphasizes hands-on modeling and technical leadership across multiple disciplines, combining BIM expertise with engineering coordination.

You will mentor designers, develop BEPs, and drive BIM quality while collaborating with Project Managers and Discipline Leads in a hybrid, US-wide environment. Expect broad project scope and fast-track delivery.