Stores Operative

Job Description

Job Title: Stores Operative

Working Pattern: Full Time - Onsite

Working location: Bristol  

When you join our Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) Integrated Logistics Centre in Bristol as a Stores Operative, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring the smooth flow of materials for critical defence operations. You'll be responsible for handling, storing, and dispatching essential engine components, directly supporting the maintenance of cutting-edge aerospace technology. This is a hands-on role in a fast-paced environment, offering a great opportunity to develop your logistics expertise within a world-class organisation.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

This role sits within our Defence business, specifically supporting the logistics and operations of our MRO facility, where we service and maintain engines such as the Adour, Trent 700, and Pegasus, which power aircraft used by military forces worldwide.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

You’ll gain valuable experience in a high-tech defence environment, working with industry-leading systems like SAP to manage inventory and logistics. You’ll have access to excellent training and career progression opportunities, whether you want to develop your expertise in supply chain operations. With competitive benefits, job security, and the chance to support mission-critical aerospace projects, this role offers a rewarding and dynamic career path.

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include employee support assistance and employee discounts.

What you will be doing

In this role, you’ll:

• Manage goods in by receiving and processing engine components needed for engineering builds.

• Coordinate goods out by preparing and dispatching critical engine modules and spare parts to customers worldwide.

• Maintain accurate inventory records by cataloguing and organising spare parts for future engineering requests.

• Utilise SAP to track stock movements, process requests, and ensure efficient logistics operations.

Who we’re looking for

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

To be successful in this role you will need to:

• Hold a valid forklift license and have experience operating a forklift in a warehouse or logistics environment.

• Possess a full UK driving license for on-site transportation of materials and engine components.

• Be computer literate, with a willingness to learn and use tools such as SAP for inventory management and task execution.

• Be a comfortable communicator who can collaborate effectively with team members and engineers to meet operational goals.

• Demonstrate teamwork and flexibility, showing a proactive approach to supporting colleagues and adapting to changing demands.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

Job Category

Factory Staff

Posting Date

25 Mar 2025; 00:03Posting End Date07 Apr 2025