Stream Finishing Technician (Manufacturing) in Royal Leamington Spa

Location: Leamington Spa, Warwickshire

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Operate machines such as aqua blast and rumbling machines.
• Perform media finishing to achieve precise surface requirements.
• Use inspection equipment to measure and check parts for imperfections.
• Assist with maintaining the equipment and supporting general duties to keep the area safe and tidy.

Key Competencies and Experience

• Must be vigilant and diligent, with a good attention to detail, and able to maintain high standards of work.
• Understand and interpret requirements accurately through effective questioning, listening, clarification, and implementation of information.
• Effective communication skills (verbal and written) to liaise with colleagues.
• Use of literacy skills to complete route cards, records, etc.
• Basic PC skills to ensure electronic system is kept up to date.
• An industrious and enquiring individual working alone or as part of a team, without direct supervision.
• A willingness to learn new skills and advance their potential to become a competent and flexible member of the manufacturing team, and progress continuous improvement.
• Proven skills within an engineering environment; use of stream or drag finishing machines would be advantageous.

Working here

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 of our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential. 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. 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 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.