Senior Stores and Warehouse Operative

Location: York, GB, YO18 7NT

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Help keep mission-critical operations moving. At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Stores and Warehouse Operative by the North Yorkshire Coast, this will be within a 25 mile radius of RAF Flyingdales.

The role:

As a Senior Stores and Warehouse Operative, you’ll play a vital role in supporting mission-critical defence and engineering operations. Working within our Mission Systems team, you’ll ensure equipment, materials, and assets are safely stored, tracked, and delivered keeping projects running efficiently and supporting national security. This is an exciting opportunity to join a collaborative, customer-facing team where your organisational skills and attention to detail will make a real impact. You’ll build strong relationships, develop your technical skills, and contribute to meaningful work that supports the UK’s defence infrastructure.

Day-to-day, you’ll be:

• Managing the safe storage, handling, and organisation of equipment and materials within the warehouse
• Supporting collections and deliveries, ensuring items are tracked and recorded accurately
• Conducting inspections of storage systems and maintaining compliance with safety standards
• Carrying out disposal activities and general stores support tasks as directed
• Performing Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) on equipment and ensuring compliance with quality and safety procedures

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based by the North Yorkshire Coast. Flexible around core hours 8am-4pm Monday to Thursday and 8am-3:30pm on a Friday.

Essential experience:

• Must possess an adequate knowledge of and compliance with the Health and Safety policy and regulations
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with fellow stores team members, clients and superiors
• IT Literacy of Microsoft Office, i.e. Word, Excel, Outlook etc.
• Must possess or be willing to obtain a Forklift driving license
• Demonstrable strong organisational and communication skills

Qualifications:

• Hold or willing to obtain City & Guilds Portable Appliance Testing (PAT)
• Possess a full, UK Driving Licence

Security Clearance:

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role. Must be Sole UK. 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 share scheme
• 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 the majority of 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) for volunteering
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

Babcock is 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 are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email 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.