Ricardo
Inspector (Monday - Thursday Night Shift)
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Overview
Role: Inspector (Monday - Thursday Night Shift)
Contract Type: Contract or Permanent
Location: Leamington Spa
Role ID: 2025- 3181
Salary: Contractor rate £20.02 per hour inclusive of 20% shift allowance / Permanent salary £39,000 - £40,500 inclusive of shift allowance, plus benefits
About Ricardo
Pushing Boundaries: a World leader in propulsion engineering from concept to production
Ricardo is a trusted engineering partner specialising in complex propulsion, driveline, and energy systems. We work with customers globally to deliver end-to-end solutions from initial design through to full production. For over 110 years, we have been at the forefront of world changing engineering innovation, partnering with many of the world’s most ambitious organisations to improve performance, push boundaries, and accelerate progress.
Headquartered in Shoreham by Sea (UK), Ricardo brings together more than 1,000 experts and delivers in excess of 200 major programmes globally at any given time. For more information, visit www.ricardo.com.
The Role
We are seeking to employ a fully skilled inspector, to increase our capability / capacity in this area, working on small batch work.
This role involves working in a small team to deliver high quality transmission components, mainly for the motorsport / aerospace industries, with a right first-time philosophy.
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Key Competencies and Experience
- Strong understanding of technical drawings and geometric tolerances
- Ability to interpret and inspect components from drawings and planning route cards to the highest quality and within routed timeframes
- Experience using manual measuring equipment and performing table work to check parts against drawing or planning requirements
- Programming experience on CMM and knowledge of Mitutoyo software would be advantageous
- Demonstrates a proactive and innovative approach to team support, with a strong focus on problem solving and continuous improvement
- Flexible in supporting other areas of manufacturing when required
- Willingness to work additional hours to meet delivery deadlines
Working here
You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.
We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.
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Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.
Next steps
Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.
Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.
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