Warehouse Operative

We Served; Walsall; On-site; GBP 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics company in Walsall is seeking a Warehouse Operative to join their team. In this full-time position, you will play a fundamental role in maintaining the flow of materials and ensuring accuracy in order fulfillment. Essential experience in a warehouse environment and proficiency in IT for stock management is necessary. The role offers a generous benefits package including holidays, pension, and development opportunities, ensuring a supportive workplace culture.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Professional Fees payment

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in a warehouse role is essential.
• Must be IT literate for stock management tasks.

Responsibilities

• Complete various warehousing tasks to support operations.
• Handle supplier deliveries and maintain stock integrity.
• Pick and prepare outbound orders accurately.

Skills

Previous experience working in a warehouse environment

IT literacy for stock management and reporting

Job description

Job Title: Warehouse Operative

Location: Walsall, West Midlands

Compensation: £26,663 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF69981

Join Our Team and Keep Operations Moving

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 Walsall, near Birmingham, West Midlands site.

The role

As a Warehouse Operative, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll work in a dynamic environment, gaining valuable experience and contributing to projects that make a real difference.

Day-to-day, you’ll be at the heart of our logistics operation, ensuring that materials and components flow seamlessly to support Babcock Vehicle Engineering projects. This is a hands-on role where your attention to detail and commitment to quality will help us deliver essential services that keep our customers moving.

• Complete a variety of warehousing tasks to support operations
• Action supplier deliveries through the inbound receipting process
• Maintain stock integrity by checking compliance, certificates, and shelf life
• Pick and prepare outbound orders accurately for customer requirements
• Ensure all goods are packaged correctly for onward distribution

This role is full time, 39 hours per week and is based on site at Walsall, West Midlands.

Essential experience of the Warehouse Operative

• Previous experience working in a warehouse environment
• IT literacy for stock management and reporting

Qualifications for the Warehouse Operative

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 a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and NPPV 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 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 equivalent hours) 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.

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: 21/01/2026