Technology & Innovation Talent Pool

ENGINEERINGUK; Dartford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading construction company as part of their Technology & Innovation team, focusing on transforming the UK construction landscape through product-led innovation and digital design. Various roles available, including Senior Electrical Engineer and Product Engineer.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Pension – basic and enhanced schemes

Health and Wellbeing

Virtual GP

Health Assessment (Age 50+)

Employee Assistance Programme

Car or transport allowance

Qualifications

• Experience in product-led innovation and digital design.
• Strong understanding of modern construction methods.

Responsibilities

• Drive design automation and product development.
• Enable robotics and automation on manufacturing lines.
• Lead digital component design for modular solutions.

Skills

product-led innovation

digital design

modern methods of construction

Job description

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Join the Future of Construction - Technology & Innovation at Laing O'Rourke

Do you want to transform how the UK builds?

Are you passionate about product-led innovation, digital design, and modern methods of construction?

We're building something exciting - and we want you to be part of it.
About the Team
Our Technology & Innovation function is redefining how we design and deliver the built environment. Powered by digital automation, advanced manufacturing, and a component-led kit-of-parts strategy, we're delivering smarter, faster, greener infrastructure.

From healthcare and data centres to life sciences and energy, this is a team where engineers, architects, designers, and product specialists work side by side - bringing ideas to life and solving the construction industry's biggest challenges.

It's diverse. It's dynamic. And it's growing.
Current Opportunities:
We're actively hiring for roles including:

Senior Electrical Engineer / Product Designer - drive design automation and product development for building services.

Advanced Manufacturing Engineer - enable robotics and automation on our manufacturing lines.

Product Engineer - Volumetric - lead digital component design for modular and offsite solutions.

Product Engineer - Building Services - design and optimise MEP systems using systems thinking and DfMA.

Product Lead - Facades - shape the future of external envelope design using advanced tools and team leadership.
Upcoming Roles:
We're also building a pipeline of future opportunities in:

• Structural product engineering
  
• Architectural innovation
  
• Platform design integration
  
• Smart components & materials research
  
• Digital configurator development
  

Whether you're a hands-on engineer, a visionary product thinker, or a systems-driven designer - there's space for you here.
Why Laing O'Rourke?
We're one of the UK's most innovative construction and engineering companies. With projects spanning hospitals, rail, aviation, energy and life sciences, you'll help deliver work that matters - backed by cutting-edge tech, world-class teams, and a culture that encourages bold ideas.
Interested?
Drop your CV into our Technology & Innovation Talent Pool and help us build the future.

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Company

We 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 an engineering enterprise, Laing O'Rourke is committed to playing a vital role in building a stronger and more sustainable economy that benefits society in general.”

– Ray O’Rourke KBE, Chief Executive Officer

Our Origin Story:

Diversity & Inclusion:

Laing O'Rourke is committed to inclusion; an employer that maintains the highest standard of employment practice and one which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse society in which we live and work.

Laing O'Rourkebelieves that when we go to work, we should feel we are going to a place where we are accepted, understood and valued and that we should make others we work with feel this way too.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION SUBCOMMITTEES

Laing O'Rourke have ten Diversity & Inclusion Subcommittees. The purpose of the diversity and inclusion sub-committees is to offer a safe and supportive environment to listen and share personal experiences and insights, as well as play a sympathetic role for each other.

The sub-committees help to drive education, events and initiatives across the organisation as well as help colleagues to understand their purpose.

Current subcommitteesinclude Dis-Ability, Carers, Ethnicity, Gender, Families that live abroad,LGBTQ+, Women & Menopause, & Working Families.

Support for Disabled Employees:

• LOR recruitment, HR Teams, Leadership and management have undertakendisability awareness trainingand are eager to provide an inclusive and accessibility experience to job applicants and new colleagues
• LOR Dis-ABILITY Subcommitteeis an Employee Network Group of colleagues passionate about disability inclusion. Its aims are to raise awareness and remove barriers around disability, neurodiversity and long term health conditions to support creating an inclusive and diverse workplace for everyone.
• Disability Confident Leaders– We are using the requirements of the government scheme to create an inclusive environment for disabled job applicants and existing colleagues.
• LOR are members of theBusiness Disability Forum, giving access to a wide range of resources and information. Our line managers have access to their best practice guides and confidential support line.
• LOR are partnering withEven Breakto have access to exemplary advice around disability inclusion.

Sustainability:

In April 2021 Laing O’Rourke announced new global sustainability targets. These include:

• To be a net zero company by 2050
• By 2033 to achieve equal gender balance across currently 5,500 international staff

Rewards andBenefits:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Pension – basic and enhanced schemes
• Health and Wellbeing
• Virtual GP
• Health Assessment (Age 50+)
• Phased return to work (80% of working week for 100% pay)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 5 days leave extra can be purchased
• Employee Discounts
• Allowances – car or transport allowance, depending on role/grade

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