Senior Digital Engineer

Overview

Location: Orwell Logistics Park – Ipswich with hybrid working: 2 days per week from home (Mobility and relocation options available)

Join the exciting journey of one of the UK's largest nuclear projects at Sizewell C.

The Civil Works Alliance (CWA), appointed by the Sizewell C client, brings together three industry-leading contractors — Laing O'Rourke, Bouygues, and Balfour Beatty — to deliver the full civils scope, including Enabling Earthworks, Main Civil Works, and Marine and Tunnelling.

Reporting to the Digital Engineering Lead, the Senior Digital Engineer will play a pivotal role in advancing digital delivery across multidisciplinary teams. You will coordinate and implement BIM processes, ensuring high-quality digital information models are developed, integrated, and leveraged throughout design, construction, and handover.

This role offers the opportunity to influence digital standards, enhance ways of working, and drive measurable improvements across a complex, large-scale infrastructure programme.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead coordination of BIM models across design and construction teams
• Support delivery of the Project Information Model (PIM) and Employer's Information Requirements (EIR)
• Embed digital processes, tools, and standards across all project phases
• Enable integration of programme, cost, and asset data through 4D, 5D, and 6D modelling
• Oversee model coordination, clash detection, and resolution workflows
• Identify and implement improvements to digital workflows to enhance efficiency, quality, and safety
• Champion digital adoption across project teams and supply chain partners

What skills & experience are we looking for?

Essential:

• Proven experience in Digital Engineering / BIM within complex construction or infrastructure environments
• Strong proficiency in Revit and/or Tekla, alongside coordination tools such as Navisworks, Solibri, or Trimble Connect
• Experience operating within a Common Data Environment (CDE) and structured digital workflows
• Strong understanding of BIM processes, including model management, coordination, and clash detection
• Ability to operate effectively across multidisciplinary teams and manage competing priorities
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Consistent track record of delivering high-quality outputs to demanding deadlines

Desirable:

• Experience with 4D and 5D modelling
• Knowledge of COBie and ISO 19650 standards
• Experience on major infrastructure or highly regulated projects
• Progression towards professional accreditation

Why SZC?

This is your chance to contribute to one of the UK's most ambitious infrastructure projects — shaping the future of low-carbon energy at scale.

At Sizewell C, you'll be part of a collaborative alliance delivering complex engineering through advanced digital methods, with the opportunity to influence how digital delivery is embedded across a nationally significant programme.

About Us

Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com

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