Senior Digital Engineer (GIS)

Join an industry-leading Digital Engineering team shaping the future of power infrastructure.

Are you ready to solve complex challenges and work with multidisciplinary teams to deliver real-world impact through digital and geospatial solutions? If so, we'd love to hear from you.

At Laing O'Rourke, our Digital Engineering team is at the forefront of innovation, collaboration, and modern methods of delivery in the power sector. Our mission is clear: to remain the recognised leader in digital excellence and construction innovation.

We're now seeking a Senior Digital Engineer (GIS) to help define, develop, and embed geospatial solutions across our projects. You will play a central role in delivering project-wide geospatial strategies that enable smarter design, safer construction, and more effective stakeholder engagement.

This role sits within our Power Sector portfolio, supporting the Great Grid Partnership (GGP) for National Grid, a critical national infrastructure programme delivering the UK's Great Grid Upgrade.

Roles & responsibilities:

• Lead the development and implementation of geospatial strategies across major infrastructure projects.
• Champion geospatial standards, protocols, and governance, ensuring alignment across internal teams, clients, and supply chain partners.
• Collaborate with engineering, construction, and client teams to understand requirements and deliver tailored, high-quality geospatial solutions.
• Act as the link between digital engineering, design, and construction disciplines, embedding best practice and improving workflows.
• Design, configure, and deploy interactive ArcGIS Online applications to support decision-making across the project lifecycle.
• Manage and maintain geospatial data and project databases, ensuring accuracy, consistency, accessibility, and security.
• Integrate and standardise geospatial datasets from multiple sources (CAD, survey, BIM, asset data) into usable, project-ready formats.
• Enable effective field data capture and mobile workflows, supporting real-time data integration into project platforms.
• Deliver high-quality geospatial outputs, including maps, dashboards, and visualisations, to support planning, delivery, and reporting.
• Drive innovation by challenging traditional approaches and introducing smarter, data-driven ways of working.
• Mentor and support junior team members, contributing to capability development and a collaborative team culture.
• Support programme-wide geospatial initiatives in collaboration with the Lead Digital Engineer (GIS).
  
  

Requirements:

Essential:

• Proven experience with Esri ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, including configuration of web applications (Experience Builder, Dashboards, 3D Scenes, Survey123, Field Maps).
• Proficient in developing and automating workflows using FME Form.
• Strong technical capability in data extraction, transformation, and integration from diverse engineering, survey, and asset data sources.
• In-depth understanding of spatial data management, standards, and best practices, with experience applying them in construction or infrastructure environments.
• Ability to design and deliver clear, user-friendly geospatial solutions that make complex data accessible and actionable.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to understand user needs, manage expectations, and engage stakeholders at all levels.
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams and influence positive outcomes.
• Confidence to present ideas, challenge assumptions constructively, and support informed decision-making.
• Self-motivated and proactive, with a passion for innovation, problem-solving, continuous improvement, and developing others.

Desirable:

• Relevant degree and/or professional certifications (e.g. Esri, FME) considered advantageous.
• Experience deploying solutions via FME Flow for enterprise-scale automation.
• Skilled in at least one programming language for developing geospatial applications (e.g., Python, JavaScript, SQL, R/Shiny), including use of Esri APIs where relevant
• Experience driving digital transformation initiatives, including integrating Microsoft business applications with geospatial services.
  
  

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.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com

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