Storage Capacity and Capability Planner

Job Title:                     Storage Capacity and Capability Planner

Location:                     Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:            Competitive + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF 64049

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 Storage Capacity and Capability Planner at our Ashton Vale site.

The role

As a Storage Capacity and Capability Planner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will work closely with Project, Production and Supply Chain teams to understand Warehouse and Logistics requirements for the Effectors Business Unit. Alongside storage capacity planning, capability requirements will need to be understood to create a strategic capability matrix. 

Day-to-day, you’ll play a crucial role liaising with relevant stakeholders to ensure the Warehouse and Logistics function meet current and future Operational storage demands

• Strong collaboration with stakeholders across several disciplines
• Collection of storage demand data
• Creation of capacity planning reports
• Data analysis to understand trends in capacity peaks and risk
• Optimisation of existing storage capacity
• Liaising with 3PL provider
• Conduct internal meetings to drive out demand
• Input into storage costs for new bids

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Storage Capacity and Capability Planner

• Confident ability to interface with both internal and external stakeholders at all levels
• Highly experienced in MS Excel, PowerPoint, and other data/forecasting sources
• Strong analytical skills, existing predictive modelling techniques highly desirable
• Organised and accurate approach to work activities

Qualifications for the Storage Capacity and Capability Planner

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be 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. This Window opens February through to March annually
• ‘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 International 
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. 

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: 30/06/25