Location:
High Wycombe, GB, HP14 4UE
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Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite
Job Title: Stores and Inventory Assistant
Location: Buckinghamshire, England
Compensation: £26,227.50 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72294
Play your part in keeping essential defence operations moving
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Stores and Inventory Assistant at RAF High Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire.
The role
As a Stores and Inventory Assistant, you’ll support the Supply Department in delivering core HADES operations, helping ensure that equipment, materials and documentation are accurately managed and readily available. Your work contributes directly to the effective running of a critical RAF station, supporting both day‑to‑day readiness and wider operational objectives.
Day-to-day, you’ll be:
Assisting the accounts department with daily supply‑related activities
Supporting physical issuing and receiving of items within the Clothing Stores
Preparing documentation for the receipt and issue of stock
Supporting stocktaking and snap‑check programmes across stockholding groups
Ensuring the physical security of stock, assets and buildings under your control.
This role is full time working 37.5 hours per week and is based on site at RAF High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. You will be working Monday–Thursday 08:00–17:00 and Friday 08:00–16:00
Essential experience of the Stores and Inventory Assistant:
Computer literate
Able to work on your own initiative
Flexible and adaptable to changing work practices
Physically fit and able to work outdoors year‑round
Customer service or accounts experience in a military or civilian environment (desirable)
Familiarity with MOD logistics procedures and documentation (desirable)
Qualifications for the Stores and Inventory Assistant:
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
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.
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: 16/07/2026
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