Job Title: Supply Team Lead
Location: Greater London, England
Compensation: £35,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72970
Lead supply chain operations supporting critical aviation services
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 Team Lead at Royal Air Force Northolt, supporting aviation operations through effective stockholding, logistics and supply chain management.
As a Supply Team Lead, you will oversee the day‑to‑day operation of the supply stores function, ensuring the safe custody, control and availability of equipment in support of operational requirements. You’ll provide leadership to the supply team, manage stockholding activity and budgets, and ensure all supply chain processes are delivered safely, efficiently and compliantly.
Day-to-day, you will be:
- Leading and supervising the supply stores team to ensure tasks are completed efficiently and to required standards.
- Managing stockholding activity, including the safe custody, control and issue of equipment.
- Controlling the domestic equipment budget and ordering stock as required to support operational demand.
- Maintaining building custodian responsibilities, including fire checks, records and reporting maintenance issues.
- Ensuring risk assessments and COSHH records are maintained and that supply areas are kept clean, safe and compliant.
This is a full‑time, onsite role, working 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
Essential experience of the Supply Team Lead:
- Previous supervisory experience within supply chain, logistics or stores operations.
- Experience working in a military or comparable regulated civilian environment.
- Ability to work both indoors and outdoors throughout the year.
Qualifications for the Supply Team Lead:
Full, valid UK driving licence.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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: 29/04/2026
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