Job Title: Warehouse Operative
Location: Buckinghamshire, England
Compensation: £27,276.60 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73827
Support aviation operations through effective warehousing and stock control
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. We’re looking for a Warehouse Operative to join our Aviation business, based on site at RAF Halton, supporting the HADES programme.
This is a practical, hands‑on role within Clothing Stores, supporting logistics and supply‑chain activity that enables aviation operations to run smoothly and efficiently.
The role
As a Warehouse Operative, you’ll be responsible for the issue, receipt, storage, and control of stock in line with agreed processes and safety standards. Working as part of a close‑knit onsite team, you’ll support day‑to‑day warehouse activity and ensure accurate record‑keeping across all transactions.
Day-to-day, you will:
- Issue, receive, and store stock in line with supply‑chain and warehouse procedures
- Carry out physical stocktaking and support stock reconciliations as required
- Assist with kitting activities in support of RAF recruit requirements
- Complete warehouse documentation and system transactions accurately
- Maintain housekeeping, safety, and cleanliness standards across warehouse areas.
This is a full‑time, permanent role, working Monday to Thursday 08:00–17:00 and Friday 08:00–16:00.
Essential experience of the Warehouse Operative:
- A reliable team player with a positive, can‑do attitude
- Good attention to detail and a safety‑focused approach
- Confidence using basic IT systems and warehouse applications
- Willingness to follow procedures and support operational priorities.
Qualifications for the Warehouse Operative:
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 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.
Closing date: 25/05/2026
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