Warehouse Operative in Gloucester

Location: Gloucester, GB, GL20 8LZ, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Compensation: £26,820 + Benefits + Overtime

Role Type: Full time / Permanent / Monday to Friday (early finish on a Friday)

Keep vital military engineering equipment ready when it matters most. 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 Ashchurch, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.

The Role

As a Warehouse Operative, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is a hands‑on, high‑impact role suited to someone who takes pride in quality, safety, and operational readiness. Day to day you’ll be required to:

• Operate material handling equipment across multiple equipment variants
• Support inspections, certification activity, and engineering assurance requirements
• Carry out repairs using hand tools, powered tools, and bench mounted equipment
• Ensure full asset accountability while maintaining strict health and safety standards

Please note that this position involves manual work. This could include lifting, bending, using tools or standing for extended periods of time. The role is based onsite at Ashchurch, and the set working times are Monday to Friday, totalling 37 hours per week.

Essential experience of the Warehouse Operative:

• Experience operating material handling or manual handling equipment
• Experience working in practical, hands‑on environments
• Confidence working independently and taking ownership of tasks
• Ability to work outdoors in all weather conditions
• Strong awareness of health and safety responsibilities

Qualifications

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 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.

What we offer:

• 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.
• ‘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.

Accessibility and Flexibility

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.