Principal Consultant; Digital Twins

The Vacancy Principal Consultant (Digital Twins) Client-Facing / Project Delivery

Location: UK (flexible / hybrid)

Team: Digital Products & Services (Binnies Digital)

• 9-day working fortnight
• Competitive pension scheme
• 33 days annual leave
• Paid volunteering day each year
• Enhanced parental leave
• Private medical cover
• Support of 2 paid qualifications
• Annual bonus (subject to company and individual performance)

This role is for you if you have deep, hands-on Digital Twin experience - not just exposure, but real "roll-up your sleeves" experience of definition, architecture and/or delivery.

• Strong Digital Twin expertise
• Systems thinking
• Technical credibility
• The ability to build trust with clients
• A strong cadence of delivery

We should be able to put you in front of our client’s engineering, IT and asset teams - and they trust your judgement because you’ve genuinely done this (well) before.

• You prefer to stay at a purely conceptual or strategy level
• You’re uncomfortable being client-facing
• You avoid detailed design or architectural scrutiny
• You need tightly defined briefs before you can move

We’re looking for someone practical, confident and hungry to help build things that work.

Demand for Digital Twin work is growing - across the UK and internationally.

• On the services side, we help water companies define and deliver Digital Twins across treatment works, wastewater assets and major new reservoirs.
• On the products side, we bring best-in-class technology into water to solve problems existing solutions have struggled with - including AI partnerships with Williams Grand Prix Technologies and global Scientific Machine Learning leaders, Julia Hub.

You’ll primarily strengthen our Digital Services capability (with occasional exposure to the products side as we scale).

You’ll report into the Technical Director (Digital Services - AI & Digital Twins) and play a key role in delivering technically robust, scalable, high-impact Digital Twin programmes.

You are here to make Digital Twins real.

You sit between:

• Operations
• Asset management
• Enterprise systems
• Cloud platforms
• AI, data & analytics

You translate operational problems into structured requirements.

You turn requirements into architecture.

You turn architecture into something that actually works.

You understand a Digital Twin isn’t a dashboard - it’s an integrated system landscape spanning OT, IT, data and workflow.

You design for priority users.

You align outputs to real decisions.

You focus on measurable ROI.

We develop intelligent solutions using our award-winning integrated planning and design approach to deliver functional infrastructure and lasting environmental and social legacies. This is backed by a culture that has stayed true since our foundation over 100 years ago. We create new possibilities for humanity through our innovative approach to delivery.

Together with our clients, we are always striving to find a smarter way to deliver projects. From providing low carbon, sustainable and resilient water solutions, flood alleviation and environment services, to connecting people with insights and data. Our business exists to improve the quality of life for our local communities today and for generations to come.

Binnies is part of the RSK Group, a leading integrated environmental, engineering, and technical services business providing dynamic, multidisciplinary services to a wide range of sectors. RSK was founded in 1989 and has grown considerably since then.

At RSK, we operate as a group of businesses that work together seamlessly, aiming for growth through diversification. Our strategy helps us build a strong and resilient business, capable of weathering external challenges, while also providing greater value to our clients and more opportunities for our employees.

Since the beginning, our philosophy has remained the same: employ, develop and reward talented individuals. People are crucial to our company, and we recognise that our success hinges on our colleagues' growth. We're committed to preserving RSK's…