Senior PLM Engineer in Bristol

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.

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.
• ‘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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 18/06/2026