Warehouse Operative

Job Title:                     Warehouse Operative

Location:                     Richmond, North Yorkshire

Compensation:           £26,820 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF74297

Keep essential supply chains moving in a fast-paced environment

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 Catterick, North Yorkshire.

The role

As a Warehouse Operative, you’ll support critical logistics operations by ensuring materials are received, stored, and dispatched efficiently and safely. Working in a fast-paced environment, you’ll play a key role in maintaining stock accuracy and meeting daily operational targets.

This is a great opportunity to develop your career within a structured and safety-focused organisation, where your contribution keeps essential operations running smoothly.

Day-to-day, you will be:

• Receiving, checking, and storing incoming materials accurately


• Picking, packing, and dispatching orders in line with operational requirements


• Maintaining stock accuracy, including certification and shelf-life checks


• Operating material handling equipment and supporting general warehouse duties


• Following health and safety procedures to ensure a safe and compliant workspace.

This is a full-time role working 37 hours per week, based on site at Catterick, with working hours of 07:00 – 15:30 Monday to Thursday and 07:00 – 12:00 Friday.

Essential experience of the Warehouse Operative:

• Basic IT skills, including familiarity with Microsoft applications


• Experience working within warehouse or logistics environments


• Understanding of warehouse or MRP systems


• Awareness of stock control and inventory processes


• Knowledge of systems such as SAP or MJDI (desirable)

Qualifications for the Warehouse Operative:

• MHE (Material Handling Equipment) licence – preferred but not essential.


• MJDI MA Qualification – preferred but not essential.

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. 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 [email protected] 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: 30/06/2026