Job Title: Inventory Clerk
Location: Donnington, Shropshire
Compensation: £29,139 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73861
Keep Operations Moving. Drive Supply Chain Excellence
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Inventory Clerk at our Donnington site in Shropshire.
As an Inventory Clerk, you will play a vital role in ensuring the right equipment and spare parts are available at the right time to support critical defence and engineering operations. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to high-impact projects by optimising inventory levels, supporting operational readiness, and working collaboratively across teams and suppliers.
You will be part of a supportive and fast-paced environment, using data and systems to improve supply chain performance while developing valuable skills in logistics, procurement, and inventory management. Your work will directly support operational efficiency and national infrastructure, helping to keep vital services running smoothly.
This is a full-time role working 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, based on-site at Donnington, Shropshire.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Manage inventory levels to ensure stock availability meets operational demand and performance targets.
- Use data and systems to raise and track purchase orders in line with business priorities.
- Collaborate with internal teams and suppliers to ensure timely delivery of parts and equipment.
- Monitor supplier performance and progressing orders to meet availability and service expectations.
- Support continuous improvement by maintaining best practices in inventory and provisioning processes.
Essential experience of the Inventory Clerk:
- Using Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel and Word.
- Communicating clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing.
- Working collaboratively and building relationships across different levels of an organisation.
- Organising work and prioritising tasks in a fast-paced environment.
Qualifications for the Inventory Clerk:
- 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.
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.
Closing date: 01/06/2026