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Digital Engineering Lead (South)

Dalkia

Dalkia

London, UK
Posted on Apr 18, 2025

Broad Description

Dalkia’s mission is to Succeed by delivering a better experience. Through our innovative thinking and agile working, we help our customers, communities, and our people to flourish.

Our values inform everything we do, guiding how we show up for each other and our clients.

• People first – It starts with health, safety and wellbeing.
• Better together – A collaborative team.
• Trusted partners – Dedicated to our client’s success.
• Taking responsibility – Making a positive difference.

As a Digital Engineering Lead you will be in the Digital Engineering function, forming part of the wider technical community driving technical excellence in Dalkia Engineering Ltd, underpinning our mission to become the UK’s number one technical solutions provider.

The technical community supports Dalkia UK Engineering and Dalkia UK Group businesses across all sectors and parts of a project life cycle, providing a wealth of development and role opportunities.

This role will see you collaboratively managing stakeholder relationships internally, such as bid teams, commercial teams and operational teams along with external stakeholder relationships such as clients, consultant partners, supply chain and manufacturers.

You are expected to follow corporate governance and process at all times and uphold the behaviours and values expected within Dalkia Engineering.

As a Digital Engineering Lead, you will lead a region made up of a number of Digital Engineering team members who will work together to deliver digital deliverables for tender, pre-construction, construction and project handover. You will be responsible for the delivery of the Dalkia Digital processes and ISO 19650 governance on all projects.

The Digital Engineering Lead will be responsible for leading the digital support and deliverables across multiple projects within a region and supporting the delivery of projects in other regions should the need arise.

Main responsibilities and key outcomes

1. Overall leadership and management of Digital Engineers and project deliverables within a region/s or sector.
2. Ensuring all projects are set-up, managed and delivered in accordance with Dalkia’s ISO 19650 processes.
3. Lead and deliver Dalkia digital training to all members of the digital community.
4. Accountable for digital project delivery, reporting and resource management, project cost management within a region/regions or sector.
5. Accountable both the internal and external delivery of projects, including budget and time management to deliver against the agreed deliverables.
6. Accountable for the management and reporting of change control impacting DE on all projects.
7. Responsible for regional project reporting and KPI’s to the Technical Director – Digital.

Reports to:

Project: Bid lead/Project Director/Project Leader
Functional: Technical Director – Digital.

Manages who:

Senior Digital Managers, Senior Digital Engineers, Digital Engineers, Trainee Digital Engineers and Apprentice Digital Engineers

Desired qualifications and experience:

Qualifications: Relevant qualifications such as Degree, HNC, HND, relevant degree or honours degree, NVQ, national certificate or diploma or an equal level of qualification.
Professional Registration: CIBSE or IET membership or working towards accreditation.
Experience: Demonstrable experience in digital engineering delivery and senior management.
Sector Experience: Healthcare, commercial, leisure, MOD/MOJ, education preferable.
Project value: Experience of working on projects with £5-50M MEP value.