Job Title: Equipment and Stores Operative
Location: Camberley, Surrey
Compensation: £24,739 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF67518
Help Shape the Future of Combat Engineering Training
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Equipment and Stores Operative at the Royal School of Military Engineering (RSME), near Minley, Hampshire.
The role
As an Equipment and Stores Operative, you’ll play a key role in supporting military training and resource management. You’ll be part of a dedicated team that ensures the smooth delivery of Combat Engineering support services helping to prepare equipment, maintain supplies, and contribute to the success of vital training exercises.
This is a hands-on, physically active role where your work directly supports national defence. It’s a great opportunity to build a meaningful career in defence, aerospace and engineering, while developing your skills in a dynamic and supportive environment.
Day-to-day you’ll be:
- Issuing and receiving equipment, maintaining supplies, and supporting Combat Engineers during training
- Transporting, erecting, and dismantling equipment for exercises
- Carrying out sentry duties and watermanship safety tasks
- Supporting resource management services such as snow and ice clearance, damage control, and porterage
- Performing technical maintenance and preparing for audits and inspections
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at RSME Minley. Typically, you’ll work Monday to Thursday, 08:00 to 16:30, and Friday, 08:00 to 16:00. Any work outside of these hours is considered overtime and is paid at enhanced rates.
Essential experience of the Equipment and Stores Operative:
- Ability to swim
- Experience with manual handling
- A UK driving licence is advantageous but not essential
Qualifications for the Equipment and Stores Operative:
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 Baseline Personnel Security 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 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 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: 12/09/2025