Supply Chain Engineer

Babcock; Bournemouth, Wareham; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Supply Chain Engineer to join their team at the Bovington site. This role involves supporting the UK Armed Forces by ensuring material availability for maintenance and repair operations. You will provide essential technical and obsolescence expertise, manage supplier compliance, and optimize procurement processes. With a strong focus on teamwork and innovation, this position offers excellent development opportunities and a comprehensive benefits package, including generous holiday allowance and health support. If you are ready to make a significant impact, this is the role for you.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP and health check

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Special paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading benefits

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Minimum Level 3 education or equivalent experience required.
• Experience in data handling and decision making essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise to support procurement processes.
• Plan lead activities to optimize pre-contract opportunities.
• Ensure compliance of materials for procurement.

Skills

Advanced PC user (MS Office, MS Outlook, SharePoint, ERP system)

Data analysis and reporting

Risk-based decision making

Education

Level 3 in National Qualification Framework (NQF)

Intermediate apprenticeship

Level 3 NVQ

Job description

Job Title: Supply Chain Engineer
Location: Wareham, Dorset
Compensation: Up to £42,022 Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF62674

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 Supply Chain Engineer at our Bovington site, near Wareham, Dorset.

The role
As a Supply Chain Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be part of an experienced team who support the UK Armed forces with spares, directly effecting material and vehicle availability and reliability. You will positively affect material availability in maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) and authority stores systems.

Day-to-day, you’ll provide technical and obsolescence expertise to identify risk and opportunities to support the proposed contracting strategy, triage these risks and opportunities and escalate as appropriate to the Part Strategy Lead Engineer. You’ll also:

• Plan and undertake lead activities to optimise pre contract opportunities including creation and/or amendment of specifications and identification of suitable and specific technical questions
• Support supplier management and non-conformance
• Be responsible for technical compliance of all material put forward for procurement under the add to contract process
• Ensure drawings required for competition are requested, promoted to VAULT, and fit for use – adding supplementary information as required

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Bovington site

Essential experience of the Supply Chain Engineer:

• Advanced PC user (MS Office, MS Outlook, SharePoint, ERP system)
• Experience of working with data and reporting
• Ability to make sound, risk based decisions based on information available

Qualifications for the Supply Chain Engineer:

• Educated to Level 3 in National Qualification Framework (NQF) as a minimum (Intermediate apprenticeship, Level 3 NVQ) or equivalent workplace experience

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintainSecurity 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 atUnited 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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 [e-mail] 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: 05/06/2025

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