Senior Stores and Warehouse Operative
// Role Summary
Join Babcock as a Senior Stores and Warehouse Operative on the North Yorkshire Coast, playing a vital role in supporting mission-critical defence and engineering operations by ensuring safe storage, tracking, and delivery of equipment and materials.
// Key Responsibilities
- Ensure safe storage, handling, and organization of equipment and materials.
- Support collections and deliveries with accurate tracking.
- Conduct inspections and maintain compliance with safety standards.
- Perform Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) on equipment.
- Must possess or be willing to obtain a Forklift driving license.
- Requires Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance.
// Role Specification
About the Role
Help keep mission-critical operations moving as a Senior Stores and Warehouse Operative by the North Yorkshire Coast, within a 25-mile radius of RAF Flyingdales. At Babcock, you'll play a vital role in supporting mission-critical defence and engineering operations within our Mission Systems team. You will ensure equipment, materials, and assets are safely stored, tracked, and delivered, keeping projects running efficiently and supporting national security.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a collaborative, customer-facing team where your organisational skills and attention to detail will make a real impact. You’ll build strong relationships, develop your technical skills, and contribute to meaningful work that supports the UK’s defence infrastructure.
Day-to-day Responsibilities:
- Managing the safe storage, handling, and organisation of equipment and materials within the warehouse.
- Supporting collections and deliveries, ensuring items are tracked and recorded accurately.
- Conducting inspections of storage systems and maintaining compliance with safety standards.
- Carrying out disposal activities and general stores support tasks as directed.
- Performing Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) on equipment and ensuring compliance with quality and safety procedures.
Role Details:
This role is full-time, 37 hours per week, based by the North Yorkshire Coast. Working hours are flexible around core hours of 8am-4pm Monday to Thursday and 8am-3:30pm on a Friday.
Essential Experience:
- Adequate knowledge of and compliance with Health and Safety policy and regulations.
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with team members, clients, and superiors.
- IT Literacy with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook).
- Must possess or be willing to obtain a Forklift driving license.
- Demonstrable strong organisational and communication skills.
Qualifications:
- Hold or be willing to obtain City & Guilds 2377-22 Portable Appliance Testing (PAT).
- Possess a full UK Driving Licence.
Security Clearance:
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role and must be Sole UK. Eligibility may be affected by place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and residency.
What We Offer:
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- 10 days special paid leave for Reservists
- Holiday Trading option
- 'Be Kind Day' for volunteering
- Flexible working options
- A dynamic working environment
About Babcock:
Babcock is a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people. We contribute to products and services essential to national security and public infrastructure, offering meaningful careers that respect work-life balance. We call that lifetime engineering.