Job Title: PLM Configuration Manager
Location: UK, Hybrid
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF71690
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as Enterprise PLM Configuration Manager. This a global role and can be based at any of our main UK locations, near your nearest commutable town and county.
The role
As PLM Configuration Manager, you will be the enterprise authority and shape how engineering product data is structured, controlled and released across a complex, global organisation operating at the heart of defence, aerospace and engineering. This is a high‑impact role where you’ll define and govern configuration management standards globally across the organisation and serve as the subject matter expert for product lifecycle management.
Day-to-day, you’ll influence major engineering programmes that support national defence, critical infrastructure and long‑term security.
- Define and oversee how engineering product data is structured, controlled and released within the Enterprise PLM platform.
- Lead global configuration management governance, ensuring consistent, auditable processes across the organisation.
- Manage engineering change, BOM structures, variants and standards compliance at enterprise scale.
- Work closely with engineering leads, product development, digital and governance teams across Babcock.
- Act as the organisation’s subject matter expert for configuration management, guiding best practice and continuous improvement.
This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.
Essential experience of the PLM Configuration Manager
- Extensive experience in configuration management, PLM or engineering data governance.
- Proven experience with complex products managing BOMs, variants and engineering change at enterprise scale across multiple programmes.
- Strong working knowledge of configuration management standards including ISO 10007 and EIA‑649.
- Experience with major PLM platforms such as Dassault 3DEXPERIENCE or Siemens Teamcenter.
Qualifications for the PLM Configuration Manager
Essential:
- Degree in Engineering, Manufacturing or a related technical discipline.
Desirable:
- Configuration Management professional certification.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / Security Check (SC) / Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role. Must be British Nationals.
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 – buy or sell up to one week of annual leave
- ‘Be Kind Day’ – one paid volunteering day each year
- Flexible working to support work–life balance
- A dynamic working environment with opportunities for long‑term career growth
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: 17/04/2026
