Calibration Engineer

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: We are seeking an enthusiastic, practical individual to lead the Calibration Team within the Test Department. This role offers a blend of practical and computer-based tasks to implement quality assured test facilities for development and certification purposes. Ricardo is an ISO 9001 company and prides itself in quality.

Key Responsibilities

• Take ownership of ensuring all calibrated equipment within the Test Department is kept in calibration according to established processes and procedures.
• Responsible individual for internal and external Calibration audits.
• Manage calibration team priorities, scheduling routine work and responding to breakdowns to maximise facility uptime.
• Calibration of measurement equipment and instruments including temperature, pressure, voltage, current, humidity, mass/force, flow and frequency disciplines.
• Upkeep of asset management databases (Currently Indysoft) to include location, calibration data and equipment history.
• Work both in the Calibration lab and in test cells, potentially working at height or in cramped environments.
• Safe movement and handling of large, heavy or awkward objects – manual handling training will be provided.
• Liaison with external calibration service providers, including creation of orders and shipping requests.
• Fault diagnostics and basic repairs on Instrumentation equipment.
• Planning of work to meet project and department deadlines.
• Ownership of Calibration Team guidance notes/procedures, including updating or creating new documents as required.
• An understanding of calibration methods and standards, including UKAS and ISO accredited calibration. Ideally having an understanding of ISO17025.
• Periodically, planned trips to support other operation divisions off site may be required.

Key Skills and Experience

• Demonstrate the ability to carefully and accurately follow calibration processes, with excellent attention to detail, and to refine and improve these processes where possible.
• Experience of understanding and interpreting legislation around quality standards (e.g. 17025) and implementing processes to support it would be desirable.
• A methodical and process driven individual, comfortable working on their own initiative, with minimal supervision.
• Ability to use computers to read instructions, record information and to communicate with colleagues. PC Skills including Word and Excel are essential.
• Previous experience of asset management databases desirable.
• Experience of working in test, manufacturing or industrial environments would be an advantage.
• Ability to work under pressure against time-based deadlines.
• Strong sense of ownership and the ability to deliver.
• A strong focus on customer and project delivery.
• Good communication skills, able to disseminate information, share work packages and liaise with Engineering team.
• Previous person-management experience desirable but not essential.

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. 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 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.