Job Title: Warehouse Operative
Location: Telford, Shropshire
Compensation: £26,820 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Fixed Term Contract
Role ID: SF71862
Create a secure future with a team that delivers for the UK
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 Donnington, near Telford, Shropshire.
As a Warehouse Operative, you’ll become an essential part of our logistics operation, supporting the smooth flow of equipment through the Donnington site. This role keeps critical supply chains moving — enabling our teams across Defence Support Group (DSG) to deliver vital services. It’s hands‑on, varied and gives you the chance to build skills that can support long‑term growth across logistics, defence and engineering.
Day-to-day, you’ll be:
- Actioning supplier deliveries and processing items through the inbound receipting system
- Operating material‑handling equipment to support daily warehouse tasks
- Maintaining stock integrity through product compliance, shelf‑life checks and documentation
- Completing regular housekeeping to keep the warehouse safe and efficient
- Picking and preparing outbound stock for distribution to Babcock customers.
This role is full time working 37 hours per week and is based on site at DSG Donnington, Shropshire. You will work Monday to Friday, within our 9‑day fortnight working pattern. This is a Fixed Term Contract for 52 weeks.
Essential experience of the Warehouse Operative:
Basic IT skills, including working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
Qualifications for the Warehouse Operative:
Manual handling or forklift licence. (Desirable)
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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: 11/03/2026