Stock & Quality Controller
Talent Guardian
£29,120 – £30,160
Worcestershire
Talent Guardian is recruiting on behalf of a growing consolidator and distributor of fine food, drink and fresh produce, supplying the independent retail and foodservice sectors.
Everything they supply is consolidated and distributed from a purpose-built Distribution Centre in Redditch, ensuring it meets their strict quality standards. Due to continued growth, they're looking for a Stock & Quality Controller to join the Supply Chain team.
The role You'll manage the end-to-end inventory process — making sure physical stock matches system records, maintaining food safety compliance, and managing strict date-code rotation to prevent spoilage and waste. It's a role that balances operational pace with genuinely rigorous quality control.
Inventory accuracy & auditing
- Conduct regular cycle counts and full stock takes, verifying physical inventory against WMS and technical software
- Investigate stock variances, misallocations and missing items, tracking movement history to root cause
- Compile daily and weekly reports on stock integrity, wastage and inventory performance
- Monitor best before and use by dates to ensure correct rotation (FEFO) and minimise food waste
- Maintain accurate batch and stock control to support rapid recalls and quality audits
- Handle and log damaged, expired or returned goods, managing safe disposal or quarantine
- Complete daily, weekly and monthly QC checks, plus monthly GMP audits and non-compliance reporting
- Carry out daily production pre-release quality and label accuracy checks
- Manage the goods-in process, checking incoming shipments for temperature, damage and quantity against purchase orders
- Check received products against specifications to ensure supplier compliance, reporting non-conformance
- Assign correct storage locations (ambient, chilled, frozen) and oversee labelling and storage conditions
- Adopt and lead 'Scan to Receive' technology
- Ensure pick faces and forward staging areas are stocked to support planning and dispatch
What you'll need
- Experience in a similar role within a DC or warehouse environment, with QC/QA food or fresh produce experience — this is essential
- You must live within a 20-mile radius of Redditch, Worcestershire
- Over 18 with your own transport
- Physical fitness to work at pace, with manual handling and use of pallet trucks (manual & PPT)
- Computer literacy for stock management data maintenance
- High standards of personal and food hygiene, and a 'clean as you go' approach
- Strong attention to detail, able to work in a team and on your own initiative
- A current FLT licence would be advantageous
- Full time, 5 days per week (Monday–Friday), no weekend working as standard
- Day shift covering operating times of 06:30–16:30 (30-minute unpaid break)
- £14.00–£14.50 per hour, depending on experience, plus paid overtime (approved by line manager)
- 28 days holiday (including 8 bank holidays), with incremental loyalty holiday added annually
- Employee benefits scheme and pension scheme
- Free on-site secure parking
- Full training provided, including product knowledge and company procedures
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