Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

The Role

We are looking for a confident and competent Prototype Build Technician to support our growing portfolio of driveline testing projects. You will have a strong background in strip and build of prototype Transmission systems. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Strip and build of prototype transmissions, following prototype build manuals with support from engineering team. Identify and implement improvements in build processes and learning for future phases. 
• Fault finding of transmission build and manufacturing issues. 
• Strip and inspection of unfamiliar transmissions without instruction. 
• Have a fundamental understanding of different transmission types, functions, and components. 
• Carry out instrumentation and modifications of test unit as per engineering request. 
• Raising of issues found during build (reporting to relevant engineer). Participation in subsequent 8Ds. 
• Ability to understand and adhere to storage/part picking process (with assistance from Engineering teams) 
• Responsible for maintaining good housekeeping of facilities and workshops. 

Key Competencies and Experience

• Extensive experience of large range of complex assemblies in a prototype build environment 
• Experience of interpreting engineering drawings to a high level and ability to validate manufactured parts quality 
• Familiar with accurate measurement techniques and able to utilise these to support bespoke build characteristics (Manual or CMM) 
• Fabrication/modification experience on bespoke hardware 
• Machining experience (lathe/ mill / pillar drill / welder, etc.)  
• Good mechanical understanding of prototype build processes and ability to identify design and manufacturing faults 

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.

Work life balance 

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. 

Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

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.