Principal Digital Engineer

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched contribution pension with life

Digital GP and annual health check

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists in the armed forces leave

Holiday Trading and Be Kind Day

Development opportunities and EAP

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Principal Digital Engineer in Warrington to lead digital engineering strategies for naval and critical infrastructure projects. You will drive BIM, information management, and digital workflows across multidisciplinary teams, ensuring compliance and high-quality outputs.

The role combines senior leadership with hands-on development of digital methods, working across the UK sites to deliver innovative, secure digital solutions for complex programmes.

Qualifications

• Strong background in digital engineering management, quality and delivery.
• Expertise in BIM, CAD and Information Management, including ISO 19650 compliance.
• Experience producing BIM Execution Plans, master and task information delivery plans.
• Ability to develop and manage digital workflows such as clash detection, design coordination and asset data and model reviews in addition to awareness of standard asset data delivery formats.
• Experience engaging senior stakeholders and working at a senior or principal level, ideally within a highly regulated environment such as nuclear or defence.

Responsibilities

• Leading the development, review and implementation of digital engineering workflows, processes and project‑wide digital intent.
• Ensuring high‑quality digital deliverables from project and engineering teams, maintaining compliance with standards and client expectations.
• Overseeing digital engineers’ workload, focusing teams on accurate, timely delivery across BIM and information management activities.
• Conducting BIM and digital assessments, producing detailed reports, technical notes and risk documentation to mitigate delivery concerns.
• Assist in developing the Babcock Digital strategy, introducing and delivering digital methods of working
• Working with stakeholders to develop and realise BIM, digital and information management strategies while guiding digital best practice across the organisation

Skills

Digital engineering management

BIM

CAD

Information management

ISO 19650 compliance

BIM Execution Plans

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Degree

Chartership

Job description

Principal Digital Engineer

Location:

Warrington, GB, WA3 6YD

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Your Role

Applies Engineering concepts and theories to provide technical direction and leadership for the delivery of designs, calculations and technical solutions across a range of applications for Babcock products and services across the Engineering Product Lifecycle. Uses their experience to make decisions in complex situations. Able to work under own initiative to produce high quality outputs. Capable of managing others and or delivery of engineering and technical activities, through the application of process, domain knowledge and experience. Can apply a broad and or deep range of knowledge to complex situations whilst extending their business knowledge base in the subject area. Provides coaching, direction, assistance and mentoring to others

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Principal Digital Engineer at our Babcock Technology Centre or Birchwood, Warrington Sites.

The role

As a Principal Digital Engineer, you’ll take a senior leadership position at the forefront of digital transformation within one of the UK’s most critical engineering environments. You’ll drive the digital engineering strategy across high‑profile Naval Nuclear programmes, supporting the evolution of information management, Building Information Modelling (BIM) and project technology capabilities that underpin complex defence and infrastructure delivery.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the chance to shape how digital innovation is implemented across major engineering, construction and commissioning projects, including a number of projects with bespoke digital requirements, ensuring best practice, technical excellence and future‑focused digital solutions. You’ll gain exposure across multidisciplinary teams and high‑value programmes, building deep technical and leadership experience that will fuel your long‑term career development.

• Leading the development, review and implementation of digital engineering workflows, processes and project‑wide digital intent.
• Ensuring high‑quality digital deliverables from project and engineering teams, maintaining compliance with standards and client expectations.
• Overseeing digital engineers’ workload, focusing teams on accurate, timely delivery across BIM and information management activities.
• Conducting BIM and digital assessments, producing detailed reports, technical notes and risk documentation to mitigate delivery concerns.
• Assist in developing the Babcock Digital strategy, introducing and delivering digital methods of working
• Working with stakeholders to develop and realise BIM, digital and information management strategies while guiding digital best practice across the organisation

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 2 days in the office/onsite.

Essential experience of the Principal Digital Engineer

• Strong background in digital engineering management, quality and delivery.
• Expertise in BIM, CAD and Information Management, including ISO 19650 compliance.
• Experience producing BIM Execution Plans, master and task information delivery plans.
• Ability to develop and manage digital workflows such as clash detection, design coordination and asset data and model reviews in addition to awareness of standard asset data delivery formats.
• Experience engaging senior stakeholders and working at a senior or principal level, ideally within a highly regulated environment such as nuclear or defence.

Qualifications for the Principal Digital Engineer

• Degree and chartership strongly preferred, though applicants with significant relevant experience will be considered.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) .

What we offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

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