Warehouse and Logistics Operative

About the job

Job Title: Warehouse and Logistics Operative

Location: Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire

Compensation: £27,947 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76062

Build your logistics career supporting critical defence operations

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Warehouse and Logistics Operative at our Ashchurch site, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.

The role

As a Warehouse and Logistics Operative, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll be responsible for supporting warehouse operations through the receipt, storage, control, and distribution of goods, helping to ensure materials are available when and where they are needed. Working within a structured and collaborative environment, you'll gain valuable experience across a variety of warehousing and logistics activities while contributing to the success of a nationally important business.

Day-to-day, you will be:

• Receiving, checking, and storing incoming goods and materials.
• Issuing stock accurately to support operational requirements.
• Maintaining stock records and supporting stock control activities.
• Carrying out stock checks and inventory counting activities.
• Supporting the smooth and efficient operation of the warehouse and wider supply chain.

This role is full time, based on site at Ashchurch, working 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

Essential experience of the Warehouse and Logistics Operative:

• Previous warehouse experience.
• Good IT skills, including experience using Microsoft Excel.
• Experience working within a fast-paced operational environment.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team.

Qualifications for the Warehouse and Logistics Operative:

• Forklift licence or experience operating manual handling equipment would be advantageous.
• A willingness to undertake further training where required.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain 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 29,000 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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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.

Application Guidance

Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. We encourage early applications, as we may close the advert before the stated deadline if we receive a high volume of strong candidates.

Closing date: 06/11/2026