Job Title: Material Planner
Location: Wareham, Dorset
Compensation: £33,519 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73571
Keep complex defence operations moving through smart material planning
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Material Planner at Bovington, near Wareham, Dorset.
The role
As a Material Planner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is an exciting opportunity to develop your career within defence, aerospace and engineering, where your work directly supports programme continuity, risk reduction and on time delivery. You will gain exposure to complex supply chain environments, national defence frameworks and enterprise level systems, building experience that strengthens both your capability and long term career prospects.
Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:
- Support material enablement for maintenance and contract change activity
- Complete material assessments in line with policy, process and delivery schedules
- Monitor material data to identify risks, delays or dependencies early
- Maintain accurate material reporting within SAP and MJDI systems
- Advise on escalation routes and relief claims where material authority dependencies arise
The role is full time, working 37 hours per week Monday to Friday, and is based onsite at Bovington.
Essential experience of the Material Planner:
- Experience using NEPTUNE SAP in at least one functional area
- Knowledge of Ministry of Defence supply chain processes for consumable and repairable items
- Experience supporting material management or planning activity in an operational environment
- Ability to work with data sets to identify issues and support informed decision making
- Confidence working collaboratively with stakeholders across operations and planning teams
Qualifications for the Material 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 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: 14/05/2026
