Job Title: Material and Inventory Planner
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £28,300 - £35,400 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74190
Keep operations moving. Power critical programmes. Build a career with purpose
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Material and Inventory Planner at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Material and Inventory Planner, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring the right materials are available at the right time to keep complex engineering and defence programmes running smoothly. From analysing demand and optimising stock to managing supply risks, your work directly supports our operational readiness and customer delivery.
Day-to-day, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to develop your career in supply chain planning within a dynamic defence environment, where your decisions make a real-world impact on national infrastructure and security.
- Managing material planning orders and inventory through SAP and ERP systems
- Analysing demand and aligning inventory levels to meet operational requirements
- Expediting materials to ensure production and project schedules stay on track
- Collaborating with project, production, and supply chain teams to enable delivery
- Identifying and mitigating supply risks through forward planning and continuous improvement
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Material and Inventory Planner
- Demonstrated experience in inventory planning and stock control techniques
- Strong analytical thinking and organisational skills
- Ability to take ownership of issues and drive them through to resolution
- Understanding of continuous improvement principles
- Familiarity with SAP or similar ERP systems is advantageous
- Experience using material planning systems such as MRP or MPS
Qualifications for the Material and Inventory Planner
- Minimum Level 2 NVQ (or equivalent)
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: 17/06/2026
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