Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: £45,000 - £55,000 per annum plus benefits

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo, member of WSP, 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

Ricardo is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer supporting several value streams within the business, as well as our customers, making tangible improvements to the quality performance of the business.

Key Responsibilities

• To provide a key focus in supporting customers, internal quality and pro-active right first-time methodology.
• The team are accountable for internal assembly & manufacturing operations, focusing on internal improvement activities along with efficiently delivering day to day activities.
• The objective is to drive customer satisfaction by improvements to our Total Cost of Quality (TCoQ), On Time In Full (OTIF) delivery and other KPI’s.
• You will be working closely with customers, quality assurance team members as well as manufacturing team leaders, product leaders and manufacturing engineers.

Key Competencies and Experience

• Experience in either low volume mechanical assembly and/or operating in a precision machining batch environment.
• Strong people and motivational skills to drive improvements in all areas of responsibility.
• Expert problem solver with extensive experience of implementing effective long-term improvement.
• Excellent communicator at both the shop floor level with the appetite and ability to present data/action plans to senior management.
• Tenacity – demonstrating a team work ethic, making a positive difference to KPIs and the Quality Culture.
• Fully proficient in DMAIC, 8D, 5Y, 7 wastes or other improvement tools.
• Fully conversant with engineering drawings and GD&T.
• The ability to work individually and as part of a team to maximise the challenges of this position is essential.

Desirable

• A background of low volume assembly, precision machining of steels & castings would be advantageous.
• Knowledge of gears and gear geometry would be an advantage.
• Have working knowledge of 6 sigma, GR&R, SPC, DoE.
• Understanding of ISO9001, AS9100D, ISO14001 and ISO45001.
• Degree, HNC or equivalent with engineering content.

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.

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.