Senior Digital Engineer

Digital Engineer (BIM Professional)

Location: South West London (Wimbledon)

Join a pioneering Digital Engineering team reshaping the future of UK power infrastructure. We're looking for a Senior Digital Engineer-think BIM Manager with extra firepower-to lead digital delivery on a major substation redevelopment in London. Are you able to influence others and present ideas, challenging assumptions constructively? Then this is the role for you.

What you do

• Own BIM strategy and delivery, aligned with ISO 19650
• Coordinate digital outputs across design, construction, and client teams
• Manage BEPs, MIDPs, IDPs, and asset data requirements
• Drive automation, data analytics (Power BI, Dynamo, Python), and smarter workflows
• Oversee model validation, clash detection, and interface management across civils, MEP, and HV systems
• Federate multi-disciplined models
• Champion digital protocols and mentor junior engineers

What you bring

• Expertise in Revit, Navisworks, Civil 3D, 3D Repo (Bentley/MicroStation a plus)
• Strong CDE experience (ProjectWise, ACC, Asite)
• Knowledge of reality capture, 4D/5D modelling, and mobile data workflows
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and leadership skills

The role will be based out of Wimbledon. A Digital Engineer at Laing O'Rourke utilises the latest BIM techniques and software and promotes a full-range of digital capabilities. The combination of Digital Twins, DFMA and Self-Delivery make this an ideal role to strengthen your skills as a BIM professional.

About us

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 part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health 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 prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

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