Considering a career with Ken Garff Automotive Group means you are in for a great ride (excuse the car metaphor)! We’re not your standard dealership or group of dealerships and we are pretty darn proud of that. We are out to do things differently and want to consistently change, grow, and progress. For that reason, our employees are proud of where they work!
Ken Garff Automotive Group is currently looking for a Digital Practice Lead / Senior BIM Manager to provide firm-wide leadership for Building Information Modeling (BIM), digital design technologies, and data-driven delivery for an architecture practice specializing exclusively in automotive dealership design at our corporate offices in Salt Lake City.
This role is responsible for shaping and executing the firm’s digital strategy—ensuring BIM, modeling, and collaboration technologies directly support design excellence, OEM compliance, operational efficiency, and scalable project delivery across multiple brands and locations.
The Digital Practice Lead acts as both a strategic leader and hands-on expert, bridging architectural practice, technology, and business goals. This position partners closely with firm leadership, project teams, consultants, and clients to continuously advance how digital tools are used to design, document, coordinate, and deliver automotive dealership projects.
Looking for:
- Strategic thinking with strong execution skills
- Technical depth paired with pragmatic decision-making
- Excellent communication, documentation, and facilitation skills
- 10+ years of BIM and digital design experience in an architectural practice.
- 5+ years in a senior BIM, digital practice, or design technology leadership role.
- Expert-level proficiency in Autodesk Revit and strong expertise with ACC/BIM 360 and Navisworks.
- Proven experience developing and enforcing BIM standards at a firm or program level.
- Experience leading digital practice initiatives or firm-wide BIM transformation preferred.
- Advanced knowledge of Dynamo, automation, or model-based data workflows preferred.
Why you’ll love working with us:
- Competitive compensation package and 401k with company match
- Wellness Time Off, plus holidays, plus a Personal Purpose Day
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability Insurance, AD&D and Life Insurance
- Flex Spending, Health Savings Account, EAP, Wellness Plan, Mental Health Support, Diabetes Management Program, and Parental Leave Stipend
- Year-end bonus program for ALL employees (Garff Giveback)
- Employee discounts on vehicle purchase, parts, service and more!
What you’ll do as a Digital Practice Lead / Senior BIM Manager:
- Define and lead the firm’s digital practice strategy, aligning BIM and design technologies with business goals, growth plans, and client/OEM expectations.
- Serve as the firm’s senior authority on BIM, digital delivery, and model-based workflows.
- Establish firm-wide policies, standards, and roadmaps for BIM, model-based coordination, and digital project delivery.
- Develop, maintain, and evolve BIM standards, templates, content libraries, and execution plans tailored to automotive dealership design.
- Oversee governance of model quality, data integrity, documentation standards, and digital deliverables firm-wide.
- Provide senior-level BIM and digital guidance to project teams from early design through construction administration.
- Oversee model coordination strategies, consultant integration, clash detection workflows, and digital deliverables.
- Lead QA/QC processes related to BIM execution, model health, and documentation consistency.
- Support client needs related to repeatability, programmatic design, BIM handoff, and long-term facility data usage.
- Own and manage the firm’s digital design technology ecosystem (e.g., Revit, ACC/BIM 360, Navisworks, visualization and coordination tools).
- Lead the evaluation and implementation of new tools, automation (e.g., Dynamo), and workflows that improve speed, quality, and consistency.
- Lead, mentor, and grow the BIM and digital design capability of the firm.
At first glance, there’s nothing remarkable at Ken Garff. Our uniforms aren’t flashy, and our buildings look a lot like the competition. You may not see it right at first, but if you listen you’ll hear. Because listening isn’t just something we do; it’s part of who we are. It’s how we show that what we absolutely value the most (far more than buildings, uniforms or cars) is our people. And we thrive on treating them right. We listen because we believe listening matters. We’re just different that way.
Will you join us as a new Digital Practice Lead / Senior BIM Manager? Will you throw your energy and focus behind what we’re doing? Will you live our values and do things differently than you’ve ever done them? Will you listen and build trust and foster relationships? This organization, that started as an idea by a man named Ken Garff way back in 1932, needs one thing to keep its vision intact and its purpose of reinventing an industry moving forward. It needs you.
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What We Do
Ken Garff founded his business in 1932 upon the principles of honesty, integrity, personalized customer service, and being a good corporate citizen. Today, Ken Garff has more than 50 locations throughout Utah, Texas, Iowa, Nevada, Michigan, and California. To distinguish and strategically position its dealerships, Ken Garff recently retooled its brand. The need for this retooling was driven by an evolving market place and super-savvy customers wanting a different car-buying experience, including more transparency and a higher level of trust. These changes were built around the new brand slogan, "We Hear You." Despite the company's growth and changes within a challenging market place, Ken Garff is going to great lengths to keep alive and well the principles upon which Ken founded the company, of providing an unsurpassed experience for every customer, every time. Ken Garff believes in giving back to the communities in which it serves. Since Ken founded his business over 81 years ago, the company has given millions of dollars and thousands of hours to schools, charities and community organizations. Why Work for Ken Garff? Ken Garff recognizes the importance of a benefit program that provides protection to our employees and their families. A comprehensive benefits program has been created to fulfill a wide range of needs. Benefits available to employees include: • Competitive Compensation Package • Medical , Dental and Vision • 401K Plan with Company match • Paid Time Off • Holiday Pay • Volunteer Time Off Program • Year-end bonus program for all employees • Personal Wellness Plan • GarffCare Roadside Assistance Program • Discounts on Parts and Service and More! Ken Garff is an Equal Opportunity Employer ((We Hear You))
