Job Title: Aviation Tool Stores Supervisor
Location: Holyhead, Anglesey
Compensation: £32,206.58 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73863
Keep aviation moving. Support the tools behind every safe flight.
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Aviation Tool Stores Supervisor at RAF Valley, near Holyhead, Anglesey.
The role
As an Aviation Tool Stores Supervisor, you’ll play a key role in supporting aircraft maintenance operations by ensuring all tools and equipment are controlled, maintained, and available when needed. Working within a regulated aviation environment, your accuracy and attention to detail will directly contribute to safety, compliance, and operational efficiency.
You’ll be part of a specialist team supporting fast-paced aircraft maintenance activity, where your work ensures engineers have the right tools, at the right time, in the right condition.
Day-to-day, you will be:
- Managing the acceptance, storage, issue, and return of tools and equipment
- Ensuring all tooling is correctly identified, labelled, and recorded in line with regulatory requirements
- Maintaining accurate records of tool condition, location, and usage at all times
- Supporting tool calibration, inspection programmes, and audit activities
- Monitoring stock levels and reporting any shortages, damage, or discrepancies.
This is a full-time, onsite role based at RAF Valley, working 36 hours per week.
Essential experience of the Aviation Tool Stores Supervisor:
- Working within a tool store, logistics, or engineering support environment
- Managing tool control systems and maintaining accurate records and traceability
- Supporting stock control, inventory management, and reporting processes
- Understanding tool calibration, servicing, and safe storage requirements
- Working within a regulated or safety-critical environment, ideally aviation.
- This role is open to people with a technical or logistics background with previous experience in tool control in an aviation environment.
Qualifications for the Aviation Tool Stores Supervisor:
- GCSEs (or equivalent) including English and Mathematics
- Relevant experience in aviation, engineering, or logistics environments (advantageous.)
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain 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 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.
Babcock
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 [email protected] 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: 23/06/2026
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