Warehouse Operative
// Role Summary
Join Babcock as a Warehouse Operative in Tewkesbury, playing a crucial role in maintaining vital military engineering equipment. This hands-on position requires a strong focus on quality, safety, and operational readiness.
// Key Responsibilities
- Operate material handling equipment and support engineering assurance.
- Perform repairs using various tools and equipment.
- Maintain full asset accountability and strict health and safety standards.
- Requires physical work including lifting, bending, and extended standing.
- Must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) clearance.
// Role Specification
Warehouse Operative at Babcock
Keep vital military engineering equipment ready when it matters most. 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 Operative at Ashchurch, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.
The Role
As a Warehouse Operative, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is a hands-on, high impact role suited to someone who takes pride in quality, safety, and operational readiness.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
- Operate material handling equipment across multiple equipment variants.
- Support inspections, certification activity, and engineering assurance requirements.
- Carry out repairs using hand tools, powered tools, and bench-mounted equipment.
- Ensure full asset accountability while maintaining strict health and safety standards.
Please note that this position involves manual work. This could include lifting, bending, using tools, or standing for extended periods of time.
The role is based onsite at Ashchurch, and the set working times are Monday to Friday, totalling 37 hours per week. There is an early finish on a Friday.
Essential Experience:
- Experience operating material handling or manual handling equipment.
- Experience working in practical, hands-on environments.
- Confidence working independently and taking ownership of tasks.
- Ability to work outdoors in all weather conditions.
- Strong awareness of health and safety responsibilities.
Qualifications:
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 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.