Painter Brothers
Quality Inspector - Painter Brothers
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About The Role
Are you detail-driven, quality-focused, and confident working with technical documentation?
We are looking for a Quality Inspector to join our Quality Team and play a key role in ensuring fabricated steel products meet the required specifications, customer expectations, and industry standards.
This is a varied and hands-on role combining quality inspection, document control, and quality system compliance. Working closely with Production, Engineering, Project Teams, and the on-site fabrication team, you will help identify quality issues, support corrective actions, and contribute to continuous improvement across the business.
Once training is complete, you will be required to work a rotating shift pattern, covering 6am–2pm and 2pm–10pm shifts.
You’ll be joining a supportive team where quality is central to the way we work. This role offers the opportunity to make a real impact by improving processes, supporting compliance, and helping deliver high-quality fabricated products to our customers.
What you'll be doing
- Carry out visual and dimensional inspections throughout manufacture and prior to dispatch.
- Verify compliance with drawings, specifications, standards, and customer requirements.
- Raise, update, and support closure of Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs).
- Raise and manage concessions, deviations, and corrective actions.
- Record and maintain inspection reports, quality records, and traceability documentation.
- Compile and maintain manufacturing record books, quality packs, and handover documentation.
- Manage controlled procedures, work instructions, forms, and quality templates.
- Ensure quality documents are current, approved, controlled, and readily accessible.
- Maintain quality registers, trackers, SharePoint libraries, and folder structures.
- Review and improve quality processes, procedures, and document management systems.
- Support internal, customer, and third-party audits through the provision of quality records and objective evidence.
- Produce quality data and reports to support business performance and continuous improvement.
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Who we're looking for
We’re looking for someone who takes pride in accuracy, understands the importance of traceability, and can work confidently across both inspection activity and quality documentation.
- Self-motivated and able to work independently.
- Good communication skills.
- Observant and high levels of attention to detail.
- Good report writing and numeracy skills.
- Good IT skills (knowledge of MS Office 365).
- Ability to work to deadlines.
Experience that would be an advantage
- Knowledge of ISO 9001.
- Knowledge of Fabrication and Welding Techniques.
- Knowledge of Visual Inspection, Magnetic Particle Inspection, Dye Penetrant Inspection.
- Understanding of manufacturing processes and process controls.
- Ability to interpret technical drawings and specifications.
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Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting, and meaningful projects; developing, building, and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
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Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
- Family-friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave.
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes, and much more…
About Us
Balfour Beatty works at the heart of the UK’s rail networks – designing, enhancing, and maintaining thousands of miles of the railways that connect communities and underpin growth.
From feasibility studies, planning, and design through to implementation and asset management, we provide multi-disciplinary rail infrastructure services across the lifecycle of rail assets. Our expertise covers electrification, track, power, civils, specialist rail plant, railway systems, and technologies.
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Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty, we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion.
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture, we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum, and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long-term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans, and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/.
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com.
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