Quality Assurance Inspector

Overview

Title: Quality Inspector 

Location: Gipuzkoa, Spain. On-site in client’s factory

Role ID: 2025-2661

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.

Ricardo Rail is leading in the field of independent advice on the purchase or modernisation of rolling stock vehicles. We support our customers in this by, among other things, specifying rolling stock, supplier selection, contract formation, contract monitoring, design verification, quality assessment, warranty monitoring and project management. Through a sharp diagnosis and analysis, we provide appropriate advice to improve the process of purchasing and modernising rolling stock vehicles.  Within our team we are looking for a Quality Inspector.

The Role

As a quality inspector, you are responsible for assessing the construction process of new rolling stock vehicles and their equipment. You have sound knowledge of relevant production processes, such as welding, gluing, preservation and assembly processes. You are able to visually distinguish between qualitative and non-qualitative products. You also like to consult with the internal quality department of the supplier to find the causes of the observed quality issues. 

You independently carry out projects and inspections, but always consult with colleagues and customers. You are confident enough to perform your work at a supplier as independently as possible and you can report well. In addition, you are prepared to work abroad at various suppliers.

Key Competencies and Experience

• Technical education or equivalent experience in Mechanical Engineering / Electrical Engineering or similar;
• Knowledge and experience with train production is a plus;
• Knowledge and experience with small-scale, manual series production, such as machine construction;
• Work experience: at least 3 to 5 years, experience in quality assurance is a plus;
• Enterprising personality, focused on creating new opportunities and projects;
• Willingness to participate in appealing international projects;
• Excellent communication skills, continuously building a customer network;
• Independent, results- and customer-oriented working method;
• Good command of English, both spoken and written, German is a plus;

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. 

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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