BIM Manager, Automated Security Design Services

Job Description

Job Description

Location :

Candidates in the San Diego, California region: hybrid. Hybrid work model: 60% on-site as needed, 40% remote. Candidates outside the San Diego California region: 100% remote.

Occasional travel to client sites may be required for site surveys, existing-conditions validation, and design coordination.

General Summary:

The BIM Manager is an individual contributor responsible for the technical integrity of the security designs produced by 4Liberty's Automated Security Design Services (ADS) practice. The incumbent designs, reviews, and validates electronic security systems — access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection, and intercom,  for large-scale commercial programs spanning multi-site portfolios, with additional work across healthcare and critical infrastructure.

This is a deeply technical position. A substantial portion of the role is technical review: evaluating design packages, validating the engineering that underpins them, and performing QA/QC prior to submitting deliverables to clients.

The role is highly cross-functional, requiring day-to-day coordination with other designers, internal engineers, the Security PMO and project managers, field survey teams, vendors and manufacturers, installation subcontractors, and client stakeholders.

Supervision Level:

• Reports to Senior Manager, Automated Security Design Services.
• This is an individual contributor role; the incumbent will not manage a team.
• The incumbent will work cross-functionally with multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

SECURITY DESIGN

• Designs complete electronic security system packages — access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection, and intercom and communication systems — from concept through Issued-for-Construction and as-built stages.
• Develops load sheets, panel schedules, riser diagrams, point-to-point wiring diagrams, cable schedules, and equipment layouts for multi-site programs using standardized deliverable templates.
• Produces Issued-for-Construction drawing sets in AutoCAD in compliance with client standards, NEC, NFPA, and applicable local codes.
• Sizes and specifies security system components, including controllers, readers, cameras, power supplies, electrified hardware, locking devices, and head-end and server infrastructure.
• Performs technical review of field survey data — validating door hardware inventories, device counts, infrastructure pathways, and power availability — and translates findings into actionable design documents.
• Produces as-built documentation packages incorporating field redlines, change orders, and installation deviations.

TECHNICAL REVIEW AND QUALITY

• Reviews and redlines security design packages produced by others, identifying technical errors, code conflicts, coverage gaps, and constructability issues, and driving them to resolution.
• Validates the engineering underlying each design, including power supply and load calculations, voltage drop, cable distance and gauge selection, PoE budgets, controller and panel capacity, video storage retention, and network bandwidth.
• Applies and enforces the QA/QC standard for assigned deliverables, working to defined review criteria, checklists, and quality gate checks, and holding packages to that standard under schedule pressure.
• Participates in project kickoff meetings, design reviews, and quality gate checks to ensure deliverable accuracy before client submission.
• Serves as a senior technical resource and escalation point for design methodology and technical troubleshooting.
• Clearly explains and supports design decisions and technical rationale to clients and project stakeholders.

STANDARDS AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

• Maintains and improves design standards libraries, template drawing sets, symbol libraries, and specification documents to drive consistency across sites and programs.
• Identifies opportunities to standardize repeatable site types and improve production efficiency, accuracy, and consistency.
• Contributes to the development of internal design standards and supports their adoption across the practice.
• Supports BIM-based design workflows, including 3D modeling of security systems in Revit, as assigned.

CROSS- FUNCTIONAL COORDINATION

• Coordinates with other designers, internal engineers, the Security PMO, and project managers on deliverable scope, sequencing, and schedule.
• Coordinates with field subcontractors and survey teams to resolve RFIs, design discrepancies, and scope-change impacts across high-volume site rollouts.
• Coordinates with vendors and manufacturers on product selection, specification, and application support.
• Delivers clear and consistent updates on design status, risks, and milestones to internal leadership and client stakeholders.
• Prepares design documentation, QA/QC records, and coordination visuals to support stakeholder alignment.
• Tracks deliverable status and labor hours on assigned work.
• Supports scope development and estimating with device takeoffs, quantity validation, and bill of material development.
• Performs other duties as assigned.