Job Description
Job Title: Digital Visualisation Design Engineer
Location: Warrington
Division: Environment
About Us:
Galliford Try is one of the UK’s leading construction businesses with a strong reputation for delivering projects that create positive, lasting change for communities. As a FTSE 250 organisation, we employ over 3,500 people across the business and offer long-term career opportunities across diverse projects and teams.
Our Environment Business:
Following various acquisitions, we are now the largest Tier 1 contractor operating in the UK Water / Environment sector, with an annual portfolio exceeding £400m. We’ve brought all engineering design disciplines into a dedicated business unit to deliver in-house expertise across our regional teams nationwide.
Purpose of the Role:
As a Digital Visualisation Design Engineer, you will play a key role in creating high-quality visual content to support design development, stakeholder engagement and business development across the built environment.
Working alongside senior engineers and the wider design team, you will produce 3D models, still imagery, animations and digital storytelling tools that align with Galliford Try’s standards and Business Management System. This is a highly creative and technical role, ideal for someone passionate about blending engineering and digital visualisation.
You’ll also support continuous improvement in digital tools and processes and help develop junior members of the team.
Key Accountabilities:
- Produce 3D models, animations and renders to support design and project delivery
- Deliver digital rehearsals, construction sequences and induction animations
- Work closely with Principal and Senior Engineers on complex visualisation packages
- Use CAD and engineering information to create visual storyboards
- Maintain and develop a visualisation asset library
- Ensure outputs align with GT standards and branding guidelines
- Identify opportunities to enhance quality, efficiency and innovation
- Mentor Graduates and Assistants within the visualisation team
- Contribute to visualisation cost settings and resource planning
- Assist in identifying opportunities for additional work streams
- Carry out project checks and quality reviews
- Identify engineering clashes and raise design coordination issues
Systems & Software:
Experience or working knowledge of:
- 3ds Max
- Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop)
- Unity or rendering engines
- Civil 3D / Revit
- 4D planning tools (e.g. Synchro)
- Real-time rendering applications
Additional experience in any of the following is advantageous:
- Coding or scripting
- Game engines
- Character modelling
- Advanced lighting techniques
- Virtual Reality (VR)
About You:
You will combine technical competence with creativity and strong communication skills. You’ll work well within multidisciplinary teams and demonstrate an eagerness to learn and evolve with digital innovation.
You will have:
- Experience delivering visualisation projects end-to-end
- A strong portfolio of digital visualisation or engineering design work
- Knowledge of BIM and CAD systems
- A good understanding of engineering principles
- Strong attention to detail and organisation
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- The ability to manage deadlines and priorities effectively
- A collaborative, proactive approach
- Degree-level education in a relevant discipline (desirable)
What We Can Offer in Return:
You’ll be joining a growing and innovative digital design team within a major UK contractor offering:
- Long-term career development
- Exposure to large, meaningful infrastructure projects
- Training investment and digital upskilling
- A supportive and collaborative environment
- Opportunities to progress within Engineering Design
Our Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Holiday entitlement increase with service
- Pension scheme
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme (24/7 support)
- Corporate discounts
- Professional membership support (role dependent)
About Us:
Our purpose is to improve people’s lives through the infrastructure we deliver. We do this by working collaboratively, maintaining integrity and putting safety, quality and long-term value at the heart of everything we do.
Additional Information:
Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates seeking full-time, part-time or flexible working.
We are a Disability Confident employer and welcome applications from candidates with a long-term health condition or disability. If you meet the essential criteria, you will be guaranteed an interview.
Please let us know if any reasonable adjustments are required as part of your application or interview process.
A Full Job Description Is Available Upon Request.
For further information, please contact adam.wright@gallifordtry.co.uk
About Us
Our vision is to be a people-orientated, progressive business, driven by our values to deliver lasting change for our stakeholders and the communities we work in.
Our purpose is to improve people’s lives through building the facilities and infrastructure that communities need, providing opportunities for our people to learn, grow and progress, working with our supply chain to promote the very best working practice and caring for the environment in which we work.
We do this by holding true to our values, delivering excellence for our clients and the community, being passionate about our role in providing vital services, putting integrity at the heart of our business by doing the right thing, and working with our clients, supply chain and stakeholders to deliver lasting change and long-term value.
We are committed to agile working, giving our people the freedom and flexibility to adapt their working life around their home life to achieve a proper balance. Our smart working approaches allow greater use of technology in the way we carry out our business, ensuring we provide a working environment that works for everyone.
In addition to working on some of the UKs most exciting construction projects we offer a comprehensive benefits package to including a competitive salary, car or car allowance, pension, healthcare, discretionary bonuses and 28 days holiday plus bank holidays. We will be committed to your wellbeing, training and professional development and we will always consider flexible working hours and arrangements. Galliford Try are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sectors of the community.
About The Team
Central Engineering Services is an in-house team providing engineering capability to the wider business. Acting as an internal consultant providing a high-quality service, the Central Engineering Services team deliver alternative solutions, value engineering, buildability and problem/defect resolution including specification compliance issues. The team also provides design and design checking services for a full range of temporary works requirements from excavations and working platforms to formwork, falsework & scaffolding.
