Job Title: Assistant Building Custodian
Location: Wareham, Dorset
Compensation: £27,276.60 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74361
Help keep vital defence environments running safely and smoothly
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Assistant Building Custodian at Bovington, near Wareham, Dorset.
The role
As an Assistant Building Custodian, you will play a key role in supporting the safe, efficient operation of essential facilities used in defence and engineering environments. This is a hands-on, varied role where your work ensures buildings, equipment, and infrastructure are maintained to the highest standards.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Open and close buildings and ensuring all areas are secure and operational
- Report and record building faults, maintenance needs, and infrastructure issues
- Carry out regular fire safety checks, including alarms and extinguishers
- Control keys and manage access to internal and external training areas
- Support equipment checks, stock control, and maintaining accurate records and databases
The role is based onsite at Bovington, and the set working times are Monday to Friday, 8.00am to 5.00pm, totalling 40 hours per week.
Essential experience of the Assistant Building Custodian:
- Demonstrating experience in stores, facilities support, or similar operational environments
- Using Microsoft Office or similar systems to maintain records and databases
- Deliver strong customer service and communication
Qualifications for the Assistant Building Custodian:
- Full UK driving licence, Category B minimum
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.
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: 23/06/2026