Stores and Quality Controller

Stores and Quality Controller

Location:

Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire (Ashchurch, GL20 8LZ
)

Job Title:

Stores and Quality Controller

Compensation:
Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:
Full time / Permanent

Role

Working location:
Onsite at Ashchurch, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.

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. 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.

• 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 (Cof Cs), 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.

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

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

The successful candidate must be a UK national and be 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. Your eligibility 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 -

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva Digi Care+.
• Employee share scheme.
• Employee shopping savings portal.
• Payment of Professional Fees.
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10 days special paid leave.
• Holiday Trading allows employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave. There is an annual window to request this benefit. The ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day’s paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with a chosen organisation or registered charity.
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package, including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

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 reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email car 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: 25/02/2026