Senior Warehouse and Logistics Operative

Job Title:                     Senior Warehouse and Logistics Operative

Location:                     Preston, Lancashire

Compensation:            Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF71475

Keeping the nation safe starts with the right people.

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Warehouse and Logistics Operative at Preston, near Blackburn, Lancashire.

The role

As a Senior Warehouse and Logistics Operative, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring equipment, assets and materials are stored, tested, and moved safely and efficiently. Your work will directly contribute to critical defence and engineering programmes that help protect people and infrastructure across the UK. This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of a site operation, work with autonomy, and grow your career within a business at the forefront of defence, aerospace and engineering.

Day-to-day, you’ll:

• Safely store items in the store, requiring manual handling of items, and conducting general stores support tasks as directed by the Service Manager.
• Maintain relevant records in the asset management tool, whilst conducting storage racking inspections and the collection/delivery of items.
• Work in a safe and efficient manner always to ensure that all activities undertaken are in compliance with relevant QMS processes and carry out work within their skill set or ability as directed by the Services Manager.
• Maintain an adequate knowledge of and compliance with the Health and Safety policy and regulations consistent with their responsibilities.
• Be responsible for carrying out portable appliance testing on relevant assets within a 150-mile radius of usual place of work.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site working 3 days a week stores initially and 2 days per week PAT electrical testing.

Essential experience of the Senior Warehouse and Logistics Operative

• Demonstrate an adequate knowledge of and compliance with the Health and Safety policy and regulations consistent with their responsibilities as General Support (Stores).
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with fellow stores team members, clients and superiors.
• Demonstration of general stores skills.
• Relevant, practical experience in a related environment.

Qualifications for the Senior Warehouse and Logistics Operative

• City & Guilds 2377-22 Portable Appliance Testing (PAT).
• Must possess, or be willing to obtain a Forklift driving license.
• 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.  Must be a Sole UK National.

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 share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10‑days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading – buy additional leave or sell up to one week
• ‘Be Kind Day’ – one paid day per year for volunteering
• Flexible working options (within role requirements)
• A dynamic and supportive working environment

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: 09/04/2026

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