BIM Coordinator, Restaurants

This role reports into the above mentioned office, however NORR offers all of its employees the opportunity to work either from home or from a NORR office.

NORR is a global team of 800 architects, engineers, planners, and interior designers creating design strategies and solutions that express the unique vision of every project. Driven by a common purpose with our clients and partners, we share ideas to create and innovate, bringing people, design, and technologies together to think bigger and act bolder.

Our story began in 1938 and has evolved into an employee-owned, fully integrated firm committed to sustainable development goals across 13 market sectors in Canada, the US, and UK. Design excellence continues to guide everything we do.

Whether a single restaurant location, prototype development, or program implementation, NORR knows restaurant design. We consider location and local relevance on balance with food and beverage concept, format and brand to achieve both a successful restaurant operation and guest experience. The field of choice for guests is growing resulting in new restaurant formats, as well as an expanded breadth of the existing formats.

The Role

You are a BIM Coordinator who will support multidisciplinary project teams within a dynamic architecture and engineering environment. This role is responsible for ensuring that BIM models are accurate, coordinated, and aligned to support efficient and constructible project delivery.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with project teams, consultants, and Design Technology to manage model quality, resolve coordination issues, facilitate collaboration, reinforce BIM standards, and provide targeted guidance that helps staff apply BIM workflows consistently in project delivery.

Impact / Success in the Role

Success in this role is defined by the ability to maintain accurate and coordinated models across disciplines, reduce rework through proactive clash detection and issue resolution, support integrated design delivery through consistent BIM practices, provide practical support that builds staff confidence with BIM workflows, and enable project teams to collaborate effectively using digital tools and workflows.

Key Responsibilities

BIM Coordination & Model Management

The BIM Coordinator is responsible for developing, maintaining, and coordinating BIM models across active projects while supporting model setup, auditing, and overall model health. This includes ensuring models are accurate, organized, and aligned with project standards and delivery requirements.

Standards, Quality & Compliance

The role applies BIM execution plans, standards, templates, and workflows consistently across projects while conducting model audits and quality reviews to ensure compliance. The BIM Coordinator identifies coordination risks and workflow gaps and communicates them to project teams to support effective delivery.

Clash Detection & Coordination

The BIM Coordinator performs clash detection and coordination reviews using approved tools, tracks coordination issues through to resolution, and supports coordination meetings and model exchange processes aligned with project timelines.

Project Team Support & Collaboration

This role provides hands-on BIM support and troubleshooting to project teams, assists with modeling workflows and coordination tools, offers targeted coaching where needed, and works collaboratively with consultants, discipline leads, and Design Technology resources to maintain alignment across project stakeholders.

Digital Workflow & Technical Support

The BIM Coordinator supports the implementation and effective use of BIM collaboration platforms and digital delivery tools while identifying opportunities to improve coordination efficiency and enhance project workflows.

Continuous Improvement & Risk Management

The role identifies recurring coordination and model challenges, supports the refinement of BIM standards and workflows, contributes to informal learning opportunities that strengthen team capability, and escalates significant risks where appropriate to improve overall project delivery and organizational capability.

What You Bring

You bring a diploma or degree in Architecture, Architectural Technology, Engineering Technology, or a related discipline, along with 3–5 years of BIM coordination experience supporting active design projects. You have advanced proficiency in Revit, a strong understanding of BIM standards and coordination workflows, and experience supporting clash detection, model exchanges, and issue resolution. You are detail-oriented with a proactive, problem-solving mindset, are comfortable troubleshooting BIM and workflow challenges in live project environments, and can communicate technical guidance clearly to help project staff adopt consistent BIM practices.

Salary Range

$60, 000.00 – $80, 000.00 annually

Learn more about our Restaurants Portfolio.

Our teams have no physical borders as we collaborate across sectors and geographies, taking best practices and innovation from every region and applying them to what’s next. We are human—and we have the ability to be pivotal change makers in the built environment.

We are helping shift the built environment from a source of carbon emissions to a driver of climate resilience. Our commitment to sustainability goes beyond the projects we design—it’s embedded in how we work. Our flexible, connected workplaces reflect that same mindset, empowering our teams to design with purpose and shape a net zero future. Be part of the solution with us.

Estimated pay ranges provided on various social media sites are not representative of NORR's range for this position. Compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, and experience.

NORR is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected status or characteristic: Race/Color/Gender/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.