Digital Tools & Data Manager
Job Summary
Job Title: Digital Tools & Data Manager
Location: Rosyth Fife Devonport Plymouth or Bristol
Compensation: Competitive Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF71907
Lead the Digital Transformation that Powers National Security
At Babcock were working to create a safe and secure world together. If you join us you can play your part as a Digital Tools and Data Manager at Devonport Rosyth or Bristol near Plymouth Dunfermline or Bristol (depending on base location).
As a Digital Tools and Data Manager youll shape the future of engineering across some of the UKs most complex and important marine and defence programmes. This is an exciting opportunity to lead transformative changechampioning the adoption of digital tools improving data workflows and enabling smarter more efficient ways of working across engineering teams.
Youll make a tangible difference to our ability to deliver engineering excellence at scale. By guiding how we use PLM CAD and nextgeneration visualisation tools youll influence projects that strengthen national security and enhance UK capabilitywhile accelerating your own professional development in a forwardthinking technologydriven environment.
Day-to-day youll have the following responsibilities:
- Support the development of the Group PLM blueprint and lead the implementation and rollout of PLM across Marine.
- Develop and manage a team of Subject Matter Experts ensuring capability across PLM CAD engineering data and digital tools.
- Define and oversee governance for engineering information and data workflows.
- Establish a recharge model and governance framework for engineering software.
- Govern and develop AI use cases across Marine to drive efficiency and engineering innovation.
Essential experience of the Digital Tools & Data Manager:
- Extensive experience establishing and delivering information and data workflows for complex products across the full lifecycle.
- Strong expertise with industrystandard PLM tools such as Dassault Windchill or Teamcenter.
- Significant experience using and configuring CAD tools including Autodesk SolidWorks Hexagon Smart 3D Siemens FORAN or AVEVA Marine.
- Experience working with UK MOD frameworks (e.g. CADMID) including configuration management and digital engineering strategy.
Qualifications for the Digital Tools & Data Manager:
- Degree in an engineering or technology discipline or equivalent professional experience.
- Chartered membership of a relevant professional institution.
- No security or trade limitations
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 - ().
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 days 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.
Were Babcock a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26000 people working together to make a difference.
Here youll 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 were 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 with the subject header Reasonable adjustments requirement. Were committed to building an inclusive culture where everyones free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 13/03/2026
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About Company
Babcock is a leading provider of critical, complex engineering services which support national defence, save lives and protect communities.