Material Strategy Engineer

As a Parts Strategy Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll be part of an experienced team who support the UK Armed forces with spares, directly effecting vehicle availability and reliability.

Day-to-day, you'll You will have the responsibility to maintain a material strategy by part (sometimes referred to as supply solution by part) which would promote the challenge and improvement of specifications, direct routes to supply, capture issues, enable obsolescence management, and mitigate counterfeit. This would enable stability in the supply chain, improve supplier relations, allow more accurate forecasting, improve understanding of risk, and enhance supply chain improvement.

• Promote and reinforces safe behaviour, stays alert to conditions that affect employee safety and never compromises on health and safety


• Maintain the Material Strategy by Part Master Database, including managing obsolescence triage to correct resolution


• Review demand for intervention opportunities


• Manage requirements for revised specifications because of tactical or planned review and pass to the relevant teams


• Review procurement issues as escalated by the technical and obsolescence team


This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Donnington.

Essential experience of the Parts Strategy Engineer:

• Advanced PC user (MS Office, MS Outlook, SharePoint, ERP system)


• Experience of working with data and reporting tools (e.g., Clarity. MS Excel)


• Ability to multi-task


• Ability to make rational decisions based on information available.


• Ability to react to changing demands


Qualifications for the Parts Strategy Engineer:

• Educated to Level 3 in National Qualification Framework (NQF) as a minimum (Intermediate apprenticeship, Level 3 NVQ) or equivalent workplace experience.


Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

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 Parts Strategy Engineer at our Donnington site.

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


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