Digital Rehearsal Team Leader
| Posting date: | 02 April 2026 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 May 2026 |
| Location: | London, E |
| Company: | Balfour Beatty Plc |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | BBUK18356-542461 |
Summary
About the role
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Digital Rehearsal and Animations Lead to join our Major Projects team based out of London, or flexible across the UK. The role will require visits to India.
Role purpose: The Digital Rehearsal & Animations Lead is responsible for running and growing Balfour Beatty’s Digital Rehearsal and Animations service, ensuring high-quality delivery, technical excellence, and continuous innovation.
What you'll be doing
This role will:
- Lead the team delivering 4D simulations, high-quality animations, VR/AR
outputs, and digital rehearsal models - Shape and guide the future development of the Digital Rehearsal Tool, working
with technical, engineering, and product teams - Drive deployment, adoption and capability uplift across the business, ensuring
Digital Rehearsal becomes a standard part of methodology development and
preconstruction practice. - Provide leadership, technical direction, and a clear service model to internal
customers, enabling consistent, scalable, repeatable delivery.
This role requires an experienced preconstruction practitioner with strong methodology development capability, creativity, and proven leadership.
Who we're looking for
Essential
- Significant experience in preconstruction, methodology development, and/or
planning in major infrastructure projects. - Demonstrated leadership capability: managing teams, services, or multi-disciplinary digital functions.
- Strong creative and visual communication skills; ability to translate construction
methodology into clear visual sequences. - Experience with 4D modelling, construction animations, design coordination, or
digital engineering environments. - Understanding of construction sequencing, temporary works, constraints, logistics and safety considerations (as referenced repeatedly across digital rehearsal requirements).
- Ability to collaborate with software developers, product managers, and technical
specialists.
Desirable
- Previous involvement in tool or product development, especially digital
engineering, BIM, simulation, or workflow tools. - Experience with VR/AR workflows, game engines, or advanced animation pipelines.
- Experience working with EDC/global capability teams.
- Familiarity with ACC, 4D platforms, model federation processes and constructability reviews.
Why work for us
Our people are our biggest asset and we focus on recruiting, training and developing the people who can apply innovation to deliver the infrastructure of the future. We nurture these talents, offer a great benefits package in addition to a competitive base salary and continually invest in developing the skills of our people at every level.
Some of our key benefits are:
- An attractive/negotiated salary;
- Medical health cover;
- Company car or car allowance;
- Discretionary annual bonus;
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays;
- Pension savings schemes;
- Enhanced maternity/paternity and family friendly policies;
- Access to our Refer and Earn scheme;
- Discretionary annual salary reviews.
About us
Balfour Beatty’s Major Projects business is delivering some of the UK’s most complex and iconic infrastructure projects. Using the latest technology, we’re driving productivity and creating a lasting legacy by delivering sustainable solutions that strengthen communities.
From consultancy and design, to all aspects of construction and maintenance. We have the proven expertise to deliver large-scale projects safely and successfully.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty, we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
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