Aviation Tool Stores Supervisor in Holyhead

Location: Holyhead, GB, LL65 3NY

Onsite or Hybrid: Onsite

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 responsibilities:

• 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:

• 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:

• 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.

What we offer:

• 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
• ‘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