Job Title: Senior Warehouse and Logistics Operative
Location: Overseas (Middle East)
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74265
Keep critical operations moving across global defence programmes
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 Warehouse and Logistics Operative at our overseas site in the Middle East.
Join our Mission Systems team and play a vital role in supporting global defence operations. In this fast-paced environment, your expertise will help ensure materials, equipment and assets are managed with precision powering mission-critical programmes across defence, aerospace and engineering.
The role
As a Senior Warehouse and Logistics Operative, you’ll be responsible for the smooth running of store and logistics operations within a secure and highly regulated environment. Your work will directly support operational readiness, enabling the safe, timely delivery of essential equipment and services.
This is an exciting opportunity to work internationally, gaining exposure to complex defence projects while developing your logistics, asset management and operational skills. You’ll collaborate closely with service delivery teams and customers, making a real difference to programme success.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Managing day-to-day warehouse and stores operations to ensure efficiency and accuracy
- Using asset management systems to track and account for materials and equipment
- Carrying out Portable Appliance Testing to maintain compliance and safety standards
- Supporting procurement activities and assisting service delivery and customer teams
- Collaborating with colleagues across teams to ensure smooth operational delivery
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and based onsite in the Middle East. Shift patterns for this role are Sunday to Thursday, 07:00 to 15:00, with an early finish on Thursday.
Essential experience of the Senior Warehouse and Logistics Operative
- Demonstrating strong experience working within a warehouse, stores or logistics environment
- Using asset management systems and associated tools to track and manage inventory
- Applying good information technology skills, including Microsoft Office and databases
- Working effectively as part of a small, multi-skilled team
- Supporting operational delivery in fast-paced or customer-focused environments
Qualifications for the Senior Warehouse and Logistics Operative
Essential:
- City & Guilds 2377 – PAT testing (or the aptitude to gain this qualification).
Desirable:
- Evidence of previous experience in Asset & Crypto Management
- Telehandler & Forklift Truck operator (or the aptitude to gain this qualification)
- IOSH managing / working safely
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Enhanced Developed Vetting (EDV) security clearance for this role. Sole UK nationals only.
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 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) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
- 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
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 [email protected] 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: 25/06/2026
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