Laing O'Rourke
Quality Inspector
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Purpose of the Role
To inspect and verify product quality, ensuring company, client, and industry standards are met while supporting continuous improvement in quality, safety, and production performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Inspect products and materials to ensure compliance with specifications, drawings, and quality standards.
- Identify and report non-conformances promptly to enable corrective action.
- Complete inspections and approvals in a timely manner, maintaining accurate records through quality management systems.
- Raise and monitor CAPA (Corrective and Preventive Action) reports for quality issues.
- Support quality assurance activities across production areas.
- Provide regular updates on quality performance and inspection outcomes.
Key Objectives
- Maintain high standards of safety, quality, and production efficiency.
- Work collaboratively with the Quality team to achieve performance targets.
- Develop and maintain knowledge of quality assurance principles and business processes.
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Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong commitment to health and safety.
- Good quality assurance and inspection knowledge.
- Excellent IT and communication skills.
- Ability to read engineering and reinforcement drawings.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to meet deadlines and prioritise workload.
- Trade background with relevant quality control or production experience.
- Minimum of 5 GCSEs (or equivalent).
Desirable
- Experience within a large manufacturing or multinational organisation.
- Evidence of continuous professional development through training or qualifications.
About Us
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
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As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com.
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