Job Title: Supply Chain Administrator
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £26,379.00 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF67095
Make a Meaningful Impact in Defence and Engineering
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Supply Chain Administrator at Devonport, near Plymouth, Devon.
The Role
As a Supply Chain Administrator, you’ll be at the heart of our Warships Team, providing essential administrative support that enables the successful delivery of our Supply Chain Department. This is a varied and dynamic role where your attention to detail and organisational skills will help drive operational excellence and support national defence.
Day-to-day, you’ll be supporting our Supply Chain Procurement Specialists by providing administration support that supports the current order book as well as the various future opportunities we are supporting.
- Facilitating applications for supplier onboarding
- Managing security administration tasks to enable supplier access to site
- Collating information for reports and producing relevant packs
- Updating trackers using Excel and SharePoint
- Liaising with suppliers to obtain pricing and entering costs into systems
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 1 days in the office/onsite and 4 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Supply Chain Administrator:
- Proven administration experience in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment
- Excellent MS Office skills
- Strong organisational and time management abilities
- Confident communicator with internal and external stakeholders
Qualifications
- GCSEs in English and Maths at Grade C or equivalent
- NVQ Level 2 in Business and Administration or equivalent
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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 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
- 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: 19/09/2025
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