Digital Engineering Engineer

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a fantastic opportunity for a Digital Engineering Engineer to join our team on the Highways A66 NTP Scheme, this role will be based at Penrith, Cumbria

Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage, and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live work and play.

We provide high quality asset strategy, management, and planning consultancy services to a wide range of public and private sector customers. We provide specialist, reliable, sustainable, and creative advice for asset management planning and implementation in the UK. We put our customers first and prioritise completing schemes safely, efficiently and to a high standard.

To deliver Digital Engineering activities for the A66 project, with a primary focus on Civil 3D model development, Navisworks federation, model coordination, assurance and digital information workflows that support the project digital strategy and information management requirements. The role is responsible for helping ensure project information is accurate, coordinated, compliant and suitable. The Digital Engineering Engineer acts as a key technical Digital Engineering resource, supporting the Project Information Model, digital assurance processes, design coordination, clash detection, model-based reviews, digital rehearsals and model-based handover planning.

The role helps produce reliable digital outputs that improve collaboration, reduce risk, minimise rework and support informed decision-making across the project.

• Develop, update, manage and assure Civil 3D models and associated Digital Engineering outputs in accordance with project standards and contractual information requirements.
• Responsible for creating, updating and maintaining project models and associated Digital Engineering information in accordance with project requirements.
• Support delivery of the project digital strategy, information management requirements, BEP, MIDP/TIDP, digital standards, methods and procedures.
• Support the delivery and assurance of the Project Information Model, ensuring models and associated data are accurate, coordinated and suitable for project use.
• Undertake model federation in Navisworks, including design review support, clash detection, data validation, issue tracking and resolution reporting.
• Support model coordination activities for allocated work packages, including IDC/IDR processes, coordination reviews and model-based technical discussions.
• Support digital rehearsals, model-based reviews and visualisation activities by developing, preparing and coordinating models to support project planning and delivery.
• Support 4D planning, model-based sequencing, handover planning and asset information integration where required, ensuring models and data can support construction and handover activities.
• Support task teams and information authors by providing technical guidance, checking information quality and escalating risks associated with the production and use of the Project Information Model.
• Ensure quality, accuracy and compliance of project information across Digital Engineering deliverables, helping to reduce design and construction risk.
• Work closely with design, construction, planning, project controls, GIS, Project Information Management and supply chain teams to resolve technical issues and improve information quality.
• Generate digital insights, model review outputs, coordination reports and lessons learnt to support project decision-making, continuous improvement and wider Digital Engineering best practice.
• Align Digital Engineering outputs, model workflows and data structures with wider Balfour Beatty Digital Engineering…