Data Management Engineer

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Help Modernise Submarine Engineering and Deliver Mission-Critical Change

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 Data Management Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Data Management Engineer, you’ll support the transformational rollout of a modern Completions Management System (CMS) across ASTUTE and VANGUARD class submarine maintenance periods at Devonport. The system provides a single point of truth for completion events during inspection, testing and acceptance, significantly improving safety, quality and effectiveness across high‑priority programmes. Day-to-day, you’ll play a central role in bringing digital capability to critical engineering work, directly improving how we deliver essential defence programmes. It’s a chance to develop your technical expertise, gain exposure across production, commissioning and quality functions, and advance your career in defence, aerospace and engineering.

• Support the rollout and ongoing implementation of the Completions Management System across submarine upkeep and refit projects.
• Provide training support to operational teams and coordinate ongoing CMS process and administration.
• Manage the deployment, maintenance and security compliance of CMS mobile devices.
• Generate reports to meet project and stakeholder needs, ensuring data accuracy and quality.
• Attend CMS Working Groups and progress meetings, coordinating CMS development, demonstrations and data maintenance activities.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 3 days in the office/onsite.

Essential experience of the Data Management Engineer

• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and collaborate with individuals and teams.
• IT Literate with a good knowledge of MS Office Packages – (Excel)
• Strong working knowledge of production, commissioning and quality processes, including Safe System of Work and regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrable experience supporting technical, digital or engineering‑related systems.
• Knowledge and experience of Data Management Systems and/or Completions Management Systems – Desirable.

Qualifications for the Data Management Engineer

• ONC/NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in an engineering discipline with relevant, extensive practical experience.
• Additional qualification or training related to commissioning, digital systems or engineering administration – Desirable.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) security clearance for this role. Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions.

What we offer

• 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.

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. Join us and see how far we can go, together.