At Sir Robert McAlpine, we are committed to driving technological advances in construction project delivery through the provision of innovative services, intelligent reporting and pioneering digital tools. We believe the future of construction is digital, with data and technology set to play an increasingly integral role in delivering successful projects – faster, with greater quality, consistency leading to improved productivity.

Digital construction is inherent in the way we work, facilitating a collaborative culture and working environment and underpinning integrated project teams. With a long-established passion and dedication to construction technical excellence, we are ideally placed to help deliver Britain’s digital construction future

At the highest level within Sir Robert McAlpine our executive board understand the value of Digital construction to our project delivery and business success mandating the utilisation of BIM on all projects with a requirement that our projects have a defined level of consistency and level of maturity.

The business further endorses this through our digital construction policy that is fundamental in demonstrating the importance of digital both internally and externally. We have established a strong digital foundation and business performance benchmarks that we utilise to help deliver successful construction programmes and business outputs.

With a dedicated Head of the Digital construction that reports into the executive board we have direct access to influence and support the future business direction and our Digital Construction strategy is intrinsic to our overall company 5-year strategy.

At SRM there is an established sense of community within the Digital Construction function team enabled by regular updates, open two-way communication, inspired leadership, access to regular (internal & external) training, and a culture that recognises areas of excellence as learning opportunities celebrating individual performance as well as shared team achievement.

SRM recognises the potential that technology brings to making construction safer, more efficient, and more sustainable and values the contribution of the Digital Construction team as integral to how we delivery and go to work.

Being a large and well-structured Digital Construction team in an organisation that is open to innovation means that there are multiple opportunities for development and promotion within SRM. Our internal Personal Development framework is seen as a critical part of our line management strategy with the development of our staff and performance related remuneration at the fore of the strategy.

Investing in future talent as a proud Investor in People we have developed a dynamic and skilled BSI accredited in-house team with diverse capabilities to deliver a variety of high-quality skills and services.

We believe in cultivating our digital construction talent and in shaping the next generation of construction talent through our own digital apprenticeship programme to ensure a sustainable and high performing team.

In addition to an underlying ethos of equality, support, and community SRM also has generous benefits and policies in place from flexible working policies, Gender parity when it comes to family leave (26 weeks paid leave), subsidised electric car leasing schemes to private healthcare, a generous leave allowance, a system for instant recognition and reward, and most of all an environment that encourages authentic relationships and genuine care for colleagues.