Description
CDM Smith is seeking a visionary and technically skilled Senior Visualization Specialist to join our Transportation Group. In this role, you'll transform complex engineering and infrastructure data into immersive visual experiences that inform, engage, and inspire through advanced graphic design and 3D visualization techniques. Your work will support project delivery, stakeholder engagement, and strategic marketing pursuits across transportation planning and design initiatives. Additionally, you will mentor and guide junior staff, fostering their growth in design-driven visualization strategies that enhance the firm’s technical excellence and innovation.
**We are open to candidates who could work hybrid in one of our offices throughout the United States, with a preference to an office in the eastern time zone.**
What you will do:
- Visual Storytelling: Translate technical plans and engineering concepts into photorealistic renderings, animations, videos, and augmented reality /mixed reality experiences for transportation infrastructure projects including complete streets, pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure, transit-oriented development, highways, and bridges and transportation planning projects including corridor plans, NEPA and environmental permitting, long-range planning studies, and public outreach.
- Collaborate Across Disciplines: Work closely with engineers, planners, and marketing teams to ensure visualizations reflect relevant industry and company standards.
- Integrating Complex Datasets: Handle 2D/3D datasets from MicroStation, OpenRoads, AutoCAD, Civil3D, and ESRI and integrate into visualization workflows.
- Support Strategic Proposals: Create compelling visual content for marketing pursuits and competitive proposals that help win new work.
- Ensure Quality and Compliance: Deliver visuals that meet industry standards, accessibility guidelines, and internal quality benchmarks.
Requirements
Minimum Qualifications
-Bachelor's degree.
- 7 years of related experience.
- Domestic and/or international travel may be required. The frequency of travel is contingent on specific duties, responsibilities, and the essential functions of the position, which may vary depending on workload and project demands.
- Equivalent additional directly related experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced proficiency in real-time rendering tools such as Unreal Engine, Twinmotion, Blender, and/or Lumion.
- Proficiency in 3ds Max, Sketchup, and Adobe Creative Suite.
- Familiarity with scripting and programming in Python, MAXScript, or other languages.
- Ability to develop CAD and GIS workflows for visualization.
- Familiarity with state departments of transportation, transit agencies, regional planning agencies, or municipal planning agencies.
