Warehouse Manager

Job Title:              Warehouse Manager
Location:              Walsall, West Midlands
Compensation:    Up to £50,000 Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:               SF62477

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Warehouse Manager at our Walsall site.

The role
As a Warehouse Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll ensure the smooth running of the stores department, responsible for stock control and the timely despatch of parts to meet the demands of production.

Day-to-day, you’ll have responsibility for the wellbeing and health and safety of team members, coordinating outbound goods, maintain stock and ensure the warehouse is running at optimal efficiency.

• Oversee the day-to-day functions of the stores, ensuring all tasks and activities assigned are completed within the allocated time frames.
• Obtaining parts just in time for schedules, ensuring availability is maintained at all times. Procurement of parts ensuring best value for money.
• Reactive to parts procurement to reduce down time on fleet, ensuring the items are available to meet KPIs.
• Producing reports from stock files or defect management system and maintaining accuracy of reports presented to line management.
• Matching of sales invoices, ensuring accuracy, processing supplier delivery notes in line with schedules and allocated work streams

This role is full time, 40 hours per week and is based on site at Walsall.

Essential experience of the Warehouse Manager:

• Experience of Stores or Warehousing management with Proven People Management Skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and competent on Microsoft office 
• Ability to develop and maintain good customer and supplier relationships
• Ability to act as a credible representative of the company to external parties
• Experience of working in an automotive and/or engineering environment is desirable

Qualifications for the Warehouse Manager:
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 NPPV and 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 share scheme 
• 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing

Babcock International 
For over a century Babcock  has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. 

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: 24/03/2025