Principal Digital Engineer

weServed; Warrington; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Employee share scheme

Discount portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Be Kind Day

Development opportunities

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Principal Digital Engineer to lead digital transformation across Naval Nuclear projects and other defence infrastructure. You will drive BIM, information management and digital workflows while shaping strategy and ensuring technical excellence.

Hybrid role with on-site presence at multiple UK sites. Ideal candidate has a strong track record in digital engineering, BIM, and stakeholder engagement in regulated environments, with SC clearance eligibility.

Qualifications

• Degree and chartership strongly preferred, though applicants with significant relevant experience will be considered.
• Sole UK National able to obtain SC security clearance.
• Lead digital engineering and BIM related duties across complex programmes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development, review and implementation of digital engineering workflows and project-wide digital intent.
• Ensure high-quality digital deliverables from project/engineering teams, meeting standards.
• Oversee digital engineers’ workload and ensure timely delivery of BIM and information management activities.
• Conduct BIM/digital assessments, produce reports and risk documentation.
• Assist in developing the Babcock Digital strategy and deliver digital methods of working.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to realise BIM and information management strategies.

Skills

Digital engineering

BIM

Information management

ISO 19650

Design coordination

Clash detection

Stakeholder engagement

Model reviews

Quality assurance

Nuclear/defence domain

Education

Degree and chartership

Tools

CAD

BIM

Job description

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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

Description

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Job Title: Principal Digital Engineer

Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Birchwood, Warrington + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74486

Lead digital engineering that transforms the future of defence infrastructure

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

The role

As aPrincipal 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 witha 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

• Generous holiday allowance
• 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] 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.

Closing date: 16/09/2026

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