Job Title: Logistic Support Operative
Location: Minley, Hampshire or Chatham, Kent
Vacancies: Multiple Available
Compensation: £25,482.20 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF69924
Join Our Team and Help Keep Defence Moving
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 Logistic Support Operative at our Minley or Chatham site.
The role
Be part of a dedicated team that ensures the smooth delivery of Combat Engineering support services helping to prepare equipment, maintain supplies, and contribute to the success of vital training exercises.
This is a hands-on, physically active role where your work directly supports national defence. It’s a great opportunity to build a meaningful career in defence, aerospace and engineering, while developing your skills in a dynamic and supportive environment.
Day-to-day you’ll be:
- Issuing and receiving equipment, maintaining supplies, and supporting Combat Engineers during training
- Transporting, erecting, and dismantling equipment for exercises
- Supporting resource management services such as snow and ice clearance, damage control, and porterage
- Carrying out sentry duties and watermanship safety tasks
- Performing technical maintenance and preparing for audits and inspections
Please note that this position involves manual work. This could include lifting, bending, using tools or standing for extended periods of time.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and can be based at either our Minley or Chatham sites.
Set working times: Monday to Thursday, 08:00–16:30, and Friday, 08:00–16:00. Any work outside of these hours is considered overtime and is paid at enhanced rates.
Essential experience of the Logistic Support Operative:
- Ability to swim
- Experience with manual handling
- A UK driving licence is advantageous but not essential
Qualifications for the Logistic Support Operative:
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 Standard (BPSS) 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.
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 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
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: 24/02/2026
