Stores Operative

Job Title:                     Stores Operative

Location:                     Chatham, Kent

Compensation:           £25,878 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF75187

Help keep vital training operations running smoothly and make a real difference every day.

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Stores Operative at RSME, near Chatham, Kent.

The role

As a Stores Operative, you'll play a key role in supporting training operations by ensuring equipment, stores and supplies are available when needed. This is a varied, hands-on position that combines stock control and customer service responsibilities with deliveries across the estate. You'll be part of a supportive team, helping to maintain smooth operations while developing valuable logistics, inventory and warehousing experience.

Day-to-day, you will be:

• Issuing stores items and equipment to customers and maintaining accurate records.


• Maintaining inventory levels, completing stock checks and supporting audits.


• Updating paperwork and computer systems relating to stores accounts and inventory management.


• Delivering equipment and supplies across the estate using company vehicles.


• Moving equipment and furniture while ensuring stores areas remain clean, organised and ready for use.

Please note that the successful candidate will be required to pass a targeted medical questionnaire and/or medical examination as a condition of employment for this role. The successful candidate will also be required to drive.

This is a full-time, site-based role at RSME, Chatham.

Working hours: Monday to Thursday, 8:00am – 4:30pm and Friday, 8:00am – 4:00pm.

Essential experience of the Stores Operative:

• Experience using Microsoft Office applications.


• Ability to work in a physically active role involving manual handling activities.


• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

Qualifications for the Stores Operative:

• Full UK Driving Licence.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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: 03/08/2026