Warehouse Operative

We Served; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A logistics and support organization is seeking a Warehouse Operative in Plymouth. This full-time role encompasses key tasks such as receiving shipments, picking, packing, and ensuring smooth logistics operations in support of the Royal Navy. Candidates should possess a forklift licence, IT skills, and a full UK driving licence, with opportunities for professional development and various employee benefits including a pension scheme and generous holiday allowance.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave

Holiday Trading

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering work

Excellent development opportunities and benefits package

Qualifications

• Experience in a warehouse, logistics, or distribution environment.
• Confident operating manual handling equipment (or willing to train).
• Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment while maintaining accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Receive, check, and record incoming shipments accurately.
• Pick, pack, label, and prepare outgoing shipments to high standards.
• Update inventory systems and support stock checks and reconciliations.
• Operate forklifts, pallet trucks, and other manual handling equipment safely.
• Work collaboratively with warehouse and supply chain teams to meet daily targets.

Skills

Experience in a warehouse, logistics, or distribution environment

Confident operating manual handling equipment

Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment while maintaining accuracy

Education

Forklift Truck licence

IT literacy, including basic Microsoft Office skills

Full UK driving licence

Job description

Job Title: Warehouse Operative

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: £31,230 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF70868

Keep operations moving and make a real impact

The role

As a Warehouse Operative, you’ll be at the heart of our logistics operations, ensuring the smooth, accurate, and safe flow of materials that directly support the Royal Navy’s ability to maintain and operate its fleet. From receiving and storing goods to picking and dispatching materials, your work will help sustain operational readiness and deliver a reliable logistics service.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:

• Receive, check, and record incoming shipments accurately
• Pick, pack, label, and prepare outgoing shipments to high standards
• Update inventory systems and support stock checks and reconciliations
• Operate forklifts, pallet trucks, and other manual handling equipment safely
• Work collaboratively with warehouse and supply chain teams to meet daily targets.

This role is full time working 35 hours per week and is based on various different sites at Plymouth.

Essential experience of the Warehouse Operative:

• Experience in a warehouse, logistics, or distribution environment
• Confident operating manual handling equipment (or willing to train)
• Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment while maintaining accuracy.

Qualifications for the Warehouse Operative:

• Forklift Truck licence (or willingness to train)
• IT literacy, including basic Microsoft Office skills
• Full UK driving licence.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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 residual because it ensures 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 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 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 indeed it allows for taking this leave) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

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Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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 [e-mail] 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: 20/01/2026