Job Title: Warehouse Operative
Location: Holyhead, Anglesey
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73873
Play a vital role in supporting RAF operations and service families while building a rewarding career in logistics and defence.
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 Operative at our RAF Valley site.
As a Warehouse Operative, you will be at the heart of our Aviation business unit, supporting the RAF Station with essential logistics and warehouse operations while ensuring the safe transport of service family’s children to and from school. This is a role where precision, responsibility and care come together to make a real difference.
Day-to-day, you will have the following responsibilities:
- The role is responsible for the successful fulfilment Supply Department activities. Working as part of a dynamic and flexible team you will ensure that all tasks within the Department are carried out to a high-quality standard and in accordance with the appropriate practices, technical publications and procedures.
- You will place, progress and deliver orders for equipment along with effecting stock issues, receipts and performing husbandry tasks on equipment such as stocktaking and location maintenance.
- Operate MoD Logistic Information Systems as required for the task and assist in the maintenance and stock management of the Unit Materiel Account, ensuring that a high level of housekeeping, cleanliness and security are maintained.
- Complete/assist with the loading/unloading of vehicles as directed.
- In addition, part of your role will be conducting School Bus Escorting duties. This will require you to ensure that only children entitled to use the service are seated on the Bus as per the authorised user list, ensuring that all children are properly seated and seatbelts are always worn when the bus is in motion. You will need to always exercise and maintain an appropriate level of control during the journey.
If you're right for this role you’ll enjoy working in a solutions-driven, people-focused manner. You’ll have a can-do attitude and work well both independently and as part of a team and have the ability to influence and deliver better outcomes.
Please note that the successful candidate will be required to pass a targeted medical questionnaire and/or medical examination as a condition of employment for this role.
This role is full time, working 36 hours per week and is based on site at RAF Valley, Holyhead.
Essential experience of the Warehouse Operative:
- A background in Logistics or Warehouse Operations with the ability to communicate well and always promote best practice.
- Good organisational skills with the ability to work autonomously and meet deadlines in a team environment.
- Computer Literate and familiar with MS Office applications.
- Demonstrates customer focus with the drive to deliver our contractual objectives safely.
- Resilience and adaptability, able to roll with uncertainty in a complex, matrixed organisation.
- That you’re a problem solver, not just an identifier. You’re great at simplifying, prioritising and using data as well as good judgement to make decisions.
Qualifications for the Warehouse Operative:
- Current full UK driving licence.
- GCSE Grade C or above in Maths and English.
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: 04/06/2026
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