Job Title: Storekeeper
Location: Bovington, Dorset
Compensation: £25,593.36 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF70919
Keeping vital defence communications moving, together
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Storekeeper at our Bovington site near Bovington, Dorset.
The role
As a Storekeeper, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will play a key role in supporting critical defence communication operations by ensuring equipment is received, issued, repaired, and recorded accurately. Working as part of a close-knit team of five, your work will directly support meeting contractual requirements and maintaining operational readiness. This is an onsite role that offers variety, responsibility, and the opportunity to build a stable and rewarding career within defence engineering support.
Day to day you’ll be required to:
- Receiving, issuing, and accounting for communication equipment using correct procedures
- Managing broken equipment, arranging repairs, and ordering replacements where required
- Maintaining accurate records across internal databases and storage systems
- Supporting the Stores Accountant and working collaboratively within the stores team
- Driving Land Rovers and operating forklift trucks once trained and authorised
The role is based on site at Bovington, and the set working times are Monday to Thursday 8:00am to 4:30pm, Friday 8:00am to 3:00pm, totalling 39 hours per week. On call rotas and overtime are available and may include weekends.
Essential experience of the Storekeeper:
- Competent IT skills, including experience using Microsoft Office applications
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team and maintain strong working relationships
- Good general health and safety awareness
Qualifications for the Storekeeper:
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. However a full UK manual driving licence is essential.
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.
Application Guidance
Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. Early applications are encouraged, as we may close the advert ahead of the closing date if we receive a high volume of strong applicants.
Closing date: 28/01/2026
