Job Title: Senior CAD/BIM Coordinator Status: Full-time, Exempt
Location: Caldwell, ID/ Boise, ID Salary Range: $80,000 - $120,000
Job Site: 522 Dauntless Pl./ 802 W Bannock St.
About us: Since 1993, Industrial Builders has upheld an unwavering commitment to top-tier construction standards. As a premier industrial firm, we cater to a diverse array of sectors, including Power Generation, Baggage Handling, Renewable Energy, Water and Wastewater Treatment, Mining, and Pipelines. Our dedication extends across both private and public domains, ensuring excellence in every project we undertake.
Summary
The Senior VDC/CAD Specialist is a hands-on technical leader responsible for producing and coordinating high-quality multidiscipline design models and drawings while advancing the company’s CAD and virtual design and construction capabilities. The role will initially focus heavily on direct production work and coordination of subcontracted CAD resources. As the function grows, this position is expected to develop into a leadership role responsible for supervising internal team members, establishing scalable workflows, and building reliable backfill capacity across the department.
Responsibilities:
- Create, revise, and maintain accurate 2D drawings and 3D models for industrial construction and engineering projects.
- Coordinate models received from clients, engineers, subcontractors, vendors, and other project participants across multiple disciplines and file formats.
- Perform model aggregation, interference review, constructability coordination, and clash detection; communicate and track issues through resolution.
- Support piping, electrical, civil, structural, mechanical, and equipment-layout workflows based on project needs and individual expertise.
- Oversee and coordinate subcontracted CAD/BIM production support, including scope clarification, workload assignment, technical review, quality control, and schedule follow-through.
- Develop, update, document, and maintain company-wide CAD/BIM standards, templates, naming conventions, layer standards, file structures, and quality-control procedures.
- Build and maintain reusable digital assets, including blocks, families, assemblies, templates, details, symbols, and model content libraries.
- Establish practical workflows for version control, model exchange, file compatibility, collaboration, and project handoff.
- Review drawings and models for accuracy, consistency, completeness, and compliance with company and project standards.
- Train and mentor CAD/BIM staff, document repeatable processes, and develop cross-training and backfill capacity within the team.
- Evaluate new tools, automation opportunities, and process improvements that increase quality, consistency, and production efficiency.
- Partner with engineering, project management, estimating, construction, controls and automation, and other stakeholders to align digital deliverables with project requirements.
- Assume increasing responsibility for team leadership, resource planning, work allocation, and performance development as internal staff are added.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Experience:
- Five or more years of relevant CAD, BIM, VDC, or design-technology experience.
- No degree required; candidates must provide a portfolio, work samples, or comparable evidence of technical ability.
- Strong multidisciplinary CAD experience or advanced expertise in piping, electrical, civil, or another relevant discipline.
- Experience coordinating models from multiple contributors, disciplines, file formats, and authoring platforms.
- Proficiency in multiple Autodesk applications, with the ability to work across Revit, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Plant 3D, Inventor, and Navisworks.
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, vendor information, and project requirements.
- Strong communication, organization, quality-control, troubleshooting, and time-management skills.
- Ability to mentor others and grow into a formal team-leadership role.
Preferred Experience
- Autodesk Construction Cloud, BIM 360, BIM Collaborate, Glue, or Autodesk Forma.
- Creating and maintaining AutoLISP routines.
- Using Autodesk APIs or SDKs to automate workflows or develop custom tools.
- Developing CAD/BIM standards, templates, content libraries, and reusable model assets.
- Coordinating outsourced production resources or supporting industrial and construction projects.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The work environment is often busy, and the noise level can be loud. The employee will need excellent organizational and time and stress management skills to complete the required tasks.
Physical Abilities
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to use hand to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, climb, or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
Please note this job description is designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.