Stores and Quality Controller in Gloucester

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Stores and Quality Controller at Ashchurch, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.

The Role

As a Stores and Quality Controller, you’ll join a growing team developing and supporting next‑generation technology for customers on the front line. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to high‑impact projects that support national security while building your technical, operational and quality expertise.

You’ll play a key role in ensuring materials, components and finished products meet the highest standards, helping us deliver reliable, safe and effective solutions to our defence partners. This is a position where your attention to detail and coordination skills will directly influence the quality of the equipment we supply, giving you a unique opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to the defence, aerospace and engineering sectors.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Conduct incoming goods inspections to ensure all deliveries comply with purchase order requirements.
• Perform in‑process and patrol inspections to maintain a high build standard across product lines.
• Manage the logistics of asset movements between sites, including packing and meeting customer‑driven deadlines.
• Maintain and organise the stores area, including carrying out rack inspections and ensuring operational cleanliness.
• Support the quality team by conducting final inspections, producing Certificates of Conformance (CofCs), managing non‑conformities and overseeing calibration and PAT testing activities.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Ashchurch, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.

Essential experience of the Stores and Quality Controller:

• Experience working in a goods-in/stores environment and physical stamina to handle inventory tasks.
• Have a strong quality control background.
• Experience and competent in manual inspection, including the use of measuring equipment, such as verniers, micrometre etc.
• Experience in electro‑mechanical inspection, reading and understanding electrical and mechanical drawings, and competent in the calibration process.

Qualifications for the Stores and Quality Controller:

• GCSEs in English and Maths / NVQ.
• Possess a full UK driving licence.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a SOLE UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) 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.

We’re Babcock - a global FTSE 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.

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