Stores Operative

Job Title:                Stores Operative
Location:                Chatham, Kent 
Compensation:      £24,000
Role Type:              Full time / Permanent
Role ID:                  SF63940

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 Stores Operative at our Chatham site.

The role
As a Stores Operative, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Providing stores and equipment in order to support army training operations.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:

• Issue stores and equipment.
• Ensure all store areas and equipment items are kept clean, tidy and in a serviceable condition and where applicable, ready for issue 
• Responsible for your areas Issues, Demands, Receipts and replenishing store items
• Maintain all paperwork relating to stores accounts

This role is full time and based onsite at our Chatham site.

Essential experience of the Stores Operative:

• Physically fit as will need to lift furniture
• Experience and knowledge of using MS Office Suite

Qualifications for the Stores Operative:

• Candidates must hold a manual UK Driving License.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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: 21/05/2025

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