Senior Digital Engineer

Babcock International; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering services firm seeks a Senior Digital Engineer to deliver BIM solutions for national projects. You will work in a hybrid setting, ensuring operational excellence in digital engineering. Applicants should have a degree in engineering, management experience, and strong skills in Autodesk tools. The role includes generous benefits such as a matched pension scheme, health consultations, and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Volunteering leave (Be Kind Day)

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience in BIM implementation and management within complex industries.
• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Expertise in Autodesk solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of digital engineering solutions.
• Contribute to strategy for CAD, BIM, and Information Management.
• Engage stakeholders to drive successful outcomes.

Skills

BIM implementation and management

Leadership and client engagement

Autodesk solutions (Revit, Navisworks, etc.)

Education

Degree or equivalent in digital or mechanical engineering

Tools

Autodesk Revit

Autodesk Navisworks

Autodesk Inventor

Autodesk Vault

Autodesk Synchro

Job description

Job Title: Senior Digital Engineer

Location: Warrington, Cheshire + Leicester, Leicestershire + Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £54,019 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF70016

Lead the Future of Digital Engineering

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 Senior Digital Engineer at our Birchwood, Leicester Radar Road or Babcock Technology Centre Sites.

The role

As a Senior Digital Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is an opportunity to make a real impact on national security while advancing your career in a dynamic, forward-thinking environment.

Day-to-day, you’ll take a leading role in delivering digital engineering and Building Information Modelling (BIM) solutions that support some of the UK’s most critical infrastructure projects. From tender through to completion, you’ll provide expertise in BIM, CAD, and Information Management, ensuring operational excellence and driving innovation.

• Contribute to strategy and implementation of 3D CAD, BIM, and Information Management in line with ISO 19650
• Work with delivery partners and clients to meet operational and strategic requirements
• Ensure governance in tool selection, planning, and deployment
• Support and lead digital strategy and delivery across the wider group
• Engage stakeholders internally and externally to drive successful outcomes

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Senior Digital Engineer

• Proven experience in BIM implementation and management within nuclear or similarly complex industries
• Strong leadership and people management skills, including client engagement
• Expertise in Autodesk solutions such as Revit, Navisworks, Inventor, Vault, and Synchro
• Knowledge of product lifecycle management, digital manufacturing, or asset management (advantageous)

Qualifications for the Senior Digital Engineer

• Degree or equivalent experience in a digital or mechanical engineering field, with a passion for continuous improvement and innovation

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be 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. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘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 International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [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.

Closing date: 29/01/2026