Location:
Bristol, GB, BS3 2HQ
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Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid
Job Title: Senior PLM Engineer
Location: Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF69786
Shape the Future of Digital Engineering in Defence and Aerospace.
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Digital Engineer at our Bristol site.
The role
As a Senior PLM Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a pivotal role in strengthening and evolving our digital engineering capability across Mission Systems. This is an exciting opportunity to shape how modern engineering tools are selected, deployed and optimised helping us move towards a fully connected, data‑driven engineering digital thread.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
Drive the definition and governance of engineering toolset policies, standards and preferred tool usage across Mission Systems
Support integration between PLM (Teamcenter) and ERP (SAP/IFS) systems
Provide expert support across key tools (Teamcenter, DOORS, NX, ANSYS, Autodesk)
Lead configuration management best practice across the engineering lifecycle
Work with stakeholders to improve tools, processes, and user experience
This is a full‑time role working 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.
Essential experience of the Senior PLM Engineer:
Strong experience with Teamcenter (PLM)
Experience working in an engineering / complex technical environment
Understanding of configuration / change management
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders and translate technical detail into practical outcomes
Qualifications for the Senior PLM Engineer:
Engineering or digital systems qualifications (Desirable)
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
What we offer
Generous holiday allowance
Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
Employee share scheme
Employee shopping savings portal
Payment of Professional Fees
Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email
[email protected] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 03/07/2026
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