Senior BIM Specialist – Interior Design – BIM

Minimum Experience:

7 Years About DAO-Badran

DAO-Badran is a multidisciplinary architecture, planning, and design practice with a strong legacy of creating culturally rooted and contemporary environments across the region.

Our work is guided by a deep understanding of place, culture, climate, materiality, and human experience. Through architecture, interior design, urbanism, landscape, and technical delivery, we create meaningful projects that combine design excellence with technical rigor.

We value creativity, collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning. Joining DAO-Badran means contributing to a design culture where strong ideas are translated into coordinated, buildable, and enduring environments.

DAO-Badran is seeking an experienced
Senior BIM Specialist
to support the Interior Design Department in the development, coordination, and delivery of complex interior design projects.

The successful candidate will be responsible for managing interior design BIM models, maintaining project standards, coordinating multidisciplinary information, and supporting the design team from concept development through detailed design, tender, and construction documentation.

The role requires a strong understanding of interior architecture, BIM workflows, technical detailing, model coordination, and project delivery.

• Develop, manage, and maintain interior design BIM models throughout all project stages.
• Translate design concepts, sketches, and technical requirements into accurate and coordinated Revit models.
• Prepare interior design drawings, including plans, reflected ceiling plans, elevations, sections, details, schedules, and room data.
• Establish and maintain BIM standards, model structures, naming conventions, templates, and project protocols.
• Coordinate interior design models with architecture, structural, MEP, lighting, signage, and specialist consultant models.
• Identify coordination conflicts, model discrepancies, and technical risks, and support the team in resolving them.
• Conduct model reviews, clash detection, quality checks, and coordination audits.
• Ensure BIM deliverables comply with project BIM Execution Plans, Employer Information Requirements, and DAO-Badran standards.
• Develop and manage Revit families, material libraries, annotation systems, schedules, and interior design content.
• Support the integration of finishes, furniture, joinery, lighting, equipment, and specialist interior elements within the BIM model.
• Coordinate reflected ceiling plans with lighting, air terminals, sprinklers, access panels, and other services.
• Produce coordinated tender, IFC, and construction documentation from the BIM model.
• Support the preparation of BOQs, material schedules, furniture schedules, door schedules, and finish schedules.
• Review BIM models and drawings produced by junior team members and provide technical guidance.
• Support interior designers in maintaining design intent during BIM development and technical coordination.
• Work closely with BIM management, Technical Delivery, project leads, and the Head of Interior Design.
• Participate in client, consultant, contractor, and coordination meetings when required.
• Review shop drawings, contractor models, material submissions, and coordination proposals.
• Provide BIM and technical support during tendering, construction, and site implementation.
• Assist in developing automated workflows, model efficiencies, and digital design processes.
• Explore the use of AI and emerging technologies to improve BIM coordination, documentation, quality control, and delivery.
• Support training and mentoring of interior designers and BIM team members.
• Ensure project models and documentation are delivered according to the approved programme, scope, quality standards, and budget.

• Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design, Interior Architecture, Architecture, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• A minimum of seven years of relevant professional experience, including significant experience in interior design BIM delivery.
• Advanced proficiency in Autodesk Revit, including modelling, documentation, schedules, families, templates, and model coordination.
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