Digital Lab Lead in Manchester

We’re looking for a Digital Lab Lead to shape and grow our immersive technology capabilities across Nuclear EMEA. This is an opportunity to bring together people, technology and ideas, helping our teams and clients use immersive environments to improve collaboration, project delivery, training and innovation across the nuclear sector.

You’ll lead three connected areas:

• Developing our Immersive Rooms as a Service offering for clients.
• Shaping the strategy and operating model for our Digital Labs and immersive spaces.
• Leading our Digital Lab Technician community.

Working with colleagues, clients and technology partners, you’ll help turn emerging digital capabilities into practical solutions that create meaningful experiences and commercial value.

Your Role

As Digital Lab Lead, you’ll provide strategic direction while staying connected to how our immersive environments are used and developed in practice. You’ll:

• Shape and grow our client-facing Immersive Rooms as a Service offering, building trusted relationships and identifying opportunities where immersive technology can add value.
• Work with clients to understand their challenges and translate them into practical digital solutions across project delivery, operations, training, stakeholder engagement, asset management and digital twins.
• Lead the Nuclear EMEA Digital Labs strategy and roadmap, helping establish consistent standards, governance and ways of working across our locations.
• Explore emerging technologies and identify opportunities to strengthen our immersive capabilities and client offering.
• Develop repeatable services, methodologies and approaches, using insight and feedback to understand their effectiveness.
• Facilitate engaging workshops that bring people together to explore use cases, technology options and potential solutions.
• Support bids, proposals, business development and the delivery of client immersive-room solutions from concept through to adoption.
• Lead and develop our Digital Lab Technician community, supporting career development, collaboration, knowledge sharing and consistent ways of working.
• Help create welcoming, high-quality experiences across our Digital Labs for colleagues, project teams and clients.
• Connect our Nuclear Digital Labs with the wider global Lava Lab community, sharing ideas, learning and best practice.

About You

You don’t need to match every requirement perfectly. We’re interested in the strengths, experiences and perspectives you can bring, alongside your curiosity about how technology can help people collaborate and solve problems differently. You’ll bring:

• Enthusiasm for immersive technology, digital visualisation and collaborative environments.
• Experience leading or developing teams, services, projects or technical initiatives.
• Strong relationship-building skills and confidence working with clients and stakeholders at different levels.
• An inclusive and collaborative leadership style that helps people contribute, develop and succeed.
• Strong communication, facilitation and presentation skills.
• The ability to listen to client needs and translate them into practical digital solutions.
• Commercial awareness and an interest in developing services that create value for clients and the business.
• Experience contributing to strategies, operating models, service offerings or capability roadmaps.

Above all, we’re looking for someone who combines digital curiosity, thoughtful leadership and strong relationship-building skills and is excited about helping people explore what immersive technology can make possible.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer.

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.