Senior Quality Control Inspector in Burton upon Trent

Are you a natural leader who thrives in a fast-paced, high-volume warehouse environment? Do you have a keen eye for detail and a passion for driving quality standards? Can you motivate and develop a team while ensuring operational excellence and compliance? If so, we’ve got the perfect role for you!

Here at GXO Logistics, we’re looking for a Senior Quality Control Inspector to join our Branston team and lead the way in ensuring our products meet the highest standards. You’ll be at the heart of our Quality Control function – organising resources, managing priorities and leading a team to deliver exceptional service to both internal and external customers. This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll make a real impact on safety, compliance, and performance. This is a full-time, permanent position. You will work Monday to Thursday 08:00 – 16:00 and Friday 07:00 – 15:00. However, flexibility will be essential at peak times, this is logistics after all!

Pay, benefits and more:

• You’ll be paid a salary of £34,361 per annum.
• You’ll also receive 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), as well as the option to buy additional days so you can enjoy a positive work-life balance.
• Your benefits package includes a company-sponsored pension plan, death in service benefit, personal accident insurance and access to our voluntary benefits platform, offering retail discounts, cycle-to-work scheme, and more.

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Lead and motivate your team to hit targets and maintain top-notch standards.
• Drive Health & Safety compliance and create a safe, efficient working environment.
• Manage inspection routines, stock movements and rework actions.
• Build strong relationships across the business and with external partners.
• Champion continuous improvement and operational excellence.

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Proven experience leading teams in a fast-paced, high-volume warehouse environment.
• Strong knowledge of QC batch inspection practices.
• A track record of delivering results and driving continuous improvement.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build positive relationships.
• Solid IT skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and familiarity with warehouse management systems.

GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work.

GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.