Overview
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Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. We transform across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources to deliver outcomes that improve people’s lives. Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions. We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., and Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with premier programme, project and cost management offerings.
Job location: Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Key Role Responsibilities
* Support digital design guardianship across the portfolio, acting as the interface between local design activity and national digital and sustainability standards.
* Provide expert input into early-stage design decisions, ensuring digital and low-carbon requirements are integrated from the outset.
* Support Trust and partner teams to interpret and implement the digital spine, reference designs, enabling systems, and carbon-conscious design principles.
* Support QA activities for digital design content within Trust Engagement Meetings (TEMs) and approval gates, including sustainability metrics.
* Identify integration pinch points and escalate gaps in digital readiness, capability, design compliance, or carbon performance.
* Identify emerging technologies (e.g., AI, IoT, digital twins) that can accelerate decarbonisation and improve design assurance.
* Collaborate with Digital Product Leads, Clinical Pathways, and Technical Assurance to embed holistic digital design principles that support energy efficiency, resource optimisation, and behavioural change for decarbonisation.
* Contribute to the development and iteration of digital playbooks, tooling pathways, and rulesets underpinning design, with a focus on net-zero targets.
* Attend site visits and governance activities, contributing to sustainability reporting within the HDP Digital Design & Assurance framework.
* Act as a digital ambassador, engaging with senior stakeholders to promote the value of digital in achieving net-zero targets and support change management initiatives that embed digital-first, low-carbon thinking across Trusts and delivery partners.
Essential Qualifications and Skills
* Proven experience in digital design, architecture, or systems integration within complex capital build programmes.
* Strong understanding of how digital, data and technology intersect with clinical workflows and spatial design.
* Experience working across RIBA stages and business case development cycles.
* Demonstrated coaching of multidisciplinary teams on digital standards or tools.
* Able to interpret and communicate technical principles to a range of stakeholders.
* Familiarity with common data environments, information requirements, and NHS digital infrastructure.
Desirable Qualifications
* Experience in NHS capital builds, especially acute hospitals.
* Skilled in applying digital design assurance frameworks.
* Working knowledge of BIM, information management standards, and digital twin readiness.
* Previous involvement in developing or applying standardised design logic and product-based design.
Industry and Professional Competencies
* Substantial experience of complex buildings.
* Experience working in a matrix organisation.
* Able to support the alignment of design solutions with programmatic vision and H2.0 KPIs.
* Ability to communicate succinctly, verbally and in writing; build lasting relationships with a diverse group of stakeholders.
* Politically aware and able to engage with a range of individuals from chief executives to design staff; emotional intelligence; team player.
* Desirable: CDE and BIM literacy; proficient in MS Office.
Additional Information
Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, where applicable.
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Employment Details
* Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Consulting
* Industries: Construction, Civil Engineering, and Business Consulting and Services
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