Supply Chain Engineer

Job Title:              Supply Chain Engineer
Location:              Telford, Shropshire
Compensation:     Up to £42,022 Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type:            Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:                SF62493

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 Supply Chain Engineer at our Donnington site.

The role
As a Supply Chain Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be part of an experienced team who support the UK Armed forces with spares, directly effecting material and vehicle availability and reliability. You will positively affect material availability in Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) and authority stores systems.

Day-to-day, you’ll provide challenging and focused support to procurement review groups (both internal and external), providing technical and obsolescence expertise to identify risk and opportunities to support the proposed contracting strategy. You’ll triage these risks and opportunities and escalate as appropriate to the Part Strategy Lead Engineer.

• Plan and undertake lead activities to optimise pre contract opportunities including creation and/or amendment of specifications and identification of suitable and specific technical questions
• Support supplier management and non-conformance
• Be responsible for technical compliance of all material put forward for procurement under the add to contract process
• Ensure drawings required for competition are requested and fit for use adding supplementary information as required

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Donnington.

Essential experience of the Supply Chain Engineer:

• Advanced PC user (MS Office, MS Outlook, SharePoint, ERP system)
• Experience of working with data and reporting
• Experience of making sound, risk based decisions based on information available
• Ability to react to changing demands

Qualifications for the Supply Chain Engineer:

• Educated to Level 3 in National Qualification Framework (NQF) as a minimum (Intermediate apprenticeship, Level 3 NVQ) or equivalent workplace experience

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 the majority of 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 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: 27/02/2025