Job Title: Supply Chain Administrator
Location: Devon, Plymouth + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72834
Keep complex programmes moving. Support mission‑critical delivery. Build a career that matters.
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.
Every day, our people support the defence, aerospace and engineering programmes that protect communities and national security. At Babcock, you’ll be trusted to contribute, encouraged to grow, and supported to build a career with real purpose.
As a Supply Chain Administrator, you’ll be a vital part of the Naval Nuclear Supply Chain team, helping ensure the seamless flow of goods and services across highly regulated, safety‑critical programmes. This is a role with real responsibility, visibility and impact supporting operational delivery while developing valuable supply chain and commercial skills within a world‑class engineering organisation.
You’ll gain exposure to complex projects, build strong stakeholder relationships, and develop experience that can open doors across the wider Babcock business. If you’re organised, curious and motivated, this role offers an exciting foundation for long‑term career progression.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Supporting procurement activities by contacting suppliers, requesting pricing and placing purchase orders within agreed limits
- Managing supplier order books and monitoring delivery milestones to keep projects on track
- Maintaining accurate data through system updates, reporting and administration tasks
- Coordinating with internal teams to support supplier performance and programme improvement plans
- Building effective working relationships with stakeholders across the business and supply chain
This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days onsite and 3 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Supply Chain Administrator
- Experience using Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
- A proactive, self‑motivated approach with a positive, can‑do attitude
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- The ability to build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Flexibility and willingness to learn new skills across different areas of the business
Qualifications for the Supply Chain Administrator
- NVQ Level 2 in Business Administration (or equivalent)
- GCSEs in Mathematics and English Language at Grade C / 5 or above
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and 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 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
- Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
- A dynamic working environment
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: 24/04/2026