Digital Solutions Lead - Water

Responsibilities

• Take ownership for the identification and evaluation of emerging digital technologies (including AI) and trends that can enhance the company’s digital services offerings and platforms;
• Collaborate with digital leads from across the UK Business Units to advance our digital capability;
• Actively introduce, develop and enhance digital skills, competence and capabilities to further improve the services we provide to our clients;
• Leading the transformation of our design delivery capability through the embracement of automation;
• Implementing data and information architecture across available systems, and develop database repositories to access and manage geospatial data;
• Provide data science experience, including data interpretation, coding languages and visualisation platforms;
• Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, including our Computational Engineering Group, Digital Practice Area Network (PAN), Digital Leads, BIM Managers, clients and supply-chain partners, in the pursuit, exploitation and sharing of digital best practice;
• Maintaining up to date knowledge of technology developments, process and delivery innovations and developing and sharing improvements via thought leadership;
• Identifying, assessing and recommending any required hardware and software deployment for the Water discipline;
• Leading the ongoing development of tools and processes associated with embedment and consistent use of Common Data Environment, CAD standards and automated design tools within project delivery teams;
• Defining our processes for checking model information against the Employer Information Requirements (EIR);
• Ensuring high standards of digital delivery;
• and Supporting key bids for the Water discipline.

Qualifications

• A clear understanding of the wider digital developments and associated benefits in the construction industry;
• Experience of business leadership and strategic development;
• Extensive experience of digital project delivery and BIM Level 2 compliant environments;
• Good knowledge of programming languages and data integration tools;
• Ability to lead others and manage own workload;
• Experience of leading high performing teams through change processes and the ability to influence and motivate others;
• Experience of multi- disciplinary design of linear pipeline infrastructure and treatment projects;
• Experience of management and use of asset data within varying dimensions of modelling;
• Fully conversant with BIM Level 2 environments and ISO19650;
• Appreciation and awareness of a variety of programming, visualisation, modelling and automation packages and their inter-operation;
• Demonstrable thought leadership in digital transformation for example through professional society activities;
• A confident yet diplomatic operating style - a pro-active decision maker who deals easily with cultural diversity and change.