Babcock
Discipline Lead - Digital Engineering (Business Unit Cavendish Nuclear)
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Job Title: Digital Engineering Lead
Location: Bristol, Leicester or Warrington + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF75585
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 Digital Engineering Lead at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The Role
As a Digital Engineering Lead, you’ll play a pivotal role in transforming how major nuclear and defence programmes are delivered through digital innovation. Acting as the bridge between strategy and execution, you'll lead the operational delivery of digital engineering capabilities across a complex project portfolio, ensuring that digital tools, standards, data governance and information management practices create measurable value.
Day-to-day, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to influence some of the UK's most critical infrastructure and national security programmes while developing a high-performing digital engineering function. You'll collaborate with senior leaders, project teams, customers and technical specialists to drive efficiency, quality and innovation across the business.
- Leading the operational delivery of Digital Engineering across complex programmes and projects.
- Embedding digital tools, standards, information management processes and data workflows into live project environments.
- Collaborating with project managers, delivery teams and customers to implement practical, value-driven digital solutions.
- Establishing governance, assurance and compliance processes that support regulatory, security and client requirements.
- Developing and leading a high-performing Digital Engineering capability while supporting talent development across the function.
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This role is full time 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.
Essential Experience of the Digital Engineering Lead
- Proven experience leading Digital Engineering, Building Information Modelling or Information Management delivery within infrastructure or the built environment.
- Strong track record of embedding digital practices and ways of working into live projects.
- Experience working across multiple disciplines, including engineering, digital delivery, project controls or information management.
- Ability to translate strategic objectives into practical, scalable delivery solutions.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including customer-facing experience.
Qualifications for the Digital Engineering Lead
Essential:
- Relevant degree, professional qualification or equivalent experience in Engineering, Digital Engineering, Information Management, Building Information Modelling or a related discipline.
Advantageous:
- Professional membership or chartered status within a relevant engineering, digital or project management institution.
- Digital Engineering, Building Information Modelling or Information Management certifications.
- Experience within regulated sectors such as nuclear, defence or major infrastructure projects.
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.
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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 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
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 email careers@babcockinternational.com 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
03/09/2026
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