Job Title: Warehouse and Logistics Operative
Location: Bovington, Dorset
Compensation: £29,653 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: 73840
Play A Vital Role In Keeping Operations Moving At The Heart of Defence
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 and Logistics Operative at our Bovington site in Dorset.
As a Warehouse and Logistics Operative, you’ll be at the centre of our supply chain, ensuring materials are received, stored and issued efficiently to support critical defence operations. Every item you handle helps maintain readiness, performance and safety across our programmes.
This role is 37 hours per week, based on site at Bovington, Dorset, working Monday to Thursday.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Receive, inspect and book in deliveries to ensure accuracy and quality.
- Store and organise materials safely within the warehouse environment.
- Issue parts and equipment to support operational requirements.
- Support stock control activities including stock checks and inventory updates.
- Maintain a clean, safe and compliant warehouse environment.
Essential experience of the Warehouse and Logistics Operative:
- Demonstrating previous warehouse or logistics experience.
- Using basic information technology systems, including Microsoft Excel.
- Working accurately with stock, inventory or goods-in/goods-out processes.
Qualifications for the Warehouse and Logistics Operative:
- 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.
- A forklift or manual handling equipment licence would be advantageous
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.
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: 05/06/2026