Structural BIM-Digital Design Team Lead

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We believe building engineering is more than systems and structures, it’s about powering progress and enabling innovation. As part of HDR’s Building Engineering Services Group, you’ll help design the critical infrastructure that supports the digital age and shapes the spaces where people work, connect, and thrive. From high-performance data centers driving the future of AI to dynamic commercial environments, your work will directly support technological advancement, sustainability, and human experience.

We bring together mechanical, electrical, structural, and civil engineering experts to solve complex design challenges with precision, creativity, and collaboration. Whether you're optimizing energy efficiency, integrating resilient systems, or engineering the backbone of next-generation facilities, your contributions will help define the future of the built environment. This isn’t just a job, it’s a chance to lead innovation, engineer impact, and build a legacy of excellence.

The Building Engineering Services Group (BES) provides industry leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing, site civil, structural, and specialty design services for a wide variety of buildings that include public, municipal, private, and government project types. Projects are a balance of local as well as across the region and the globe. With a team of experienced staff in specific market areas such as Healthcare, Datacenters, Science and Technology, Commercial Real Estate, Finance, Hospitality, Industrial, Municipal, Manufacturing, Transportation, and Federal facilities;

we provide engineering excellence for our clients.

We are searching for Structural BIM-Digital Design Team Lead at either our Folsom or Walnut Creek office.

In the role of Structural BIM-Digital Design Team Lead, we'll count on you to:

Function as a structural digital design – building information modelling (BIM) lead for key projects

Execute all structural digital delivery (BIM) requirements identified on a project

Be responsible for the structural discipline model and will generate the BIM elements, based on the Level of Development (LOD) outlined in the Digital Delivery Plan (DDP) and project scope

Create and maintain the discipline model, systems, content, and overall digital delivery output for structural.

To be skilled with the software used to produce the designs identified in the Digital Delivery requirements

Have mastered structural BIM modelling and how it interacts with other discipline designs.

Have an advanced understanding of structural documentation and plan presentation for all disciplines

Mentor and develop the Structural Digital Design staff.

Accurately model BIM elements in the correct special constraints of the modeling environment, using the current 3D software

Prepare detailed drawings, layouts, & diagrams of the design within the project scope, schedule, and budget, using the current 3D software

Maintain the structural model including project information, coordinates, scales, orientations, scope boundaries, match-lines, views, and sheets

Produce discipline specific documentation with accurate annotations on all…