Storekeeper

Job Title:                     Storekeeper

Location:                     Wareham, Dorset

Compensation:           £17,685.31 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Part Time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF75156

Keep critical resources moving and support operations that make a difference.

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 Bovington, near Wareham, Dorset.

The role

As a Storekeeper, you'll play an important role in supporting logistics and operational activities, ensuring equipment, stock and resources are available where and when they're needed. Working within a busy stores environment, you'll help maintain accurate inventory records, support stock management activities and ensure operational requirements are met efficiently.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a collaborative team where your attention to detail, organisational skills and commitment to service delivery will directly contribute to the successful performance of a key defence training contract.

Day-to-day, you will be:

• Managing and maintaining accurate stock and inventory records.


• Operating and managing inventory account systems, with full training provided.


• Conducting equipment issues, receipts and stock transactions in line with procedures.


• Ordering fuels and lubricants using approved processes and systems.


• Carrying out regular stores inspections, stock checks and inventory audits.

This is a permanent, part-time position working 25 hours per week. Flexible working days can be agreed. The role is based on site at Bovington.

Essential experience of the Storekeeper:

• Experience managing resources within a stores, warehouse or logistics environment.


• Good IT skills, including a thorough knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.


• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.


• Confidence communicating with colleagues and customers.


• Own transport, or the ability to travel reliably to site each working day.

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.

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 [email protected] 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: 13/08/2026