Quality Inspection Engineer

Location: Cheltenham, UK (On-site) Benefits: 27 days holiday plus Wellbeing day, Private Medical Insurance, Bonus scheme, Sharescheme, Enhanced pension plan, Life assurance, Discount scheme.

Role Overview

Join our UK Supply Quality Team as a Quality Inspection Engineer (QC) and play a pivotal role in ensuring the highest standards of product quality and compliance. You’ll be part of a team that supports the design, engineering, and manufacturing of products we’re proud to deliver—balancing quality, compliance, and customer expectations. This role is based at our UK Supply site and reports to the Quality Inspection Engineering Team Lead.

Shift Patterns Available (please State Preference In Your Application)

• Early shift: Monday to Friday, 06:00 to 14:00
• Late shift: Monday to Thursday, 14:00 to 22:00
  
  

Your Objectives And Responsibilities Will Focus On…

• Providing timely quality control and metrology support to operations and the wider UK Supply business.
• Sharing best practices in measurement and metrology with production, engineering, and global quality teams.
• Supporting the rollout of MES and expansion of machining processes.
• Analysing data to report quality metrics and identify improvement opportunities.
• Promoting a culture of quality and compliance across the business.
• Communicating quality successes and risks to leadership and stakeholders.
• Upholding company values, policies, and procedures in all activities.
  
  

Your Previous Experience Is Likely To Include….

• A solid understanding of manufacturing or industrial processes, tools, and techniques.
• Hands-on experience with metrology equipment and systems.
• Proficiency in Office 365 and general computer literacy.
• Experience guiding stakeholders on metrology techniques.
• Experience programming and using key metrology tools such as CMM and surface measurement systems.
  
  

To be successful in this role you will…

• Demonstrate Company Core Values at all times
• Be proactive, analytical, and detail oriented.
• Demonstrate excellent skills in communication, coaching, and stakeholder engagement.
• Be resilient, adaptable, and collaborative.
• Be ethical and consistent in decision-making.
• Demonstrate strong organisation skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
• Demonstrate a customer-focused approach and commitment to continuous improvement.
• Demonstrate a relevant Engineering or STEM qualification with technical knowledge in interpreting drawings, process maps and machining requirements.
  
  

The Steam Thermal Solutions business is one of three businesses within Spirax Group. Spirax Sarco and Gestra, are our two brands that form Steam Thermal Solutions and are global leaders in the supply of engineered solutions for the design, provision and maintenance of efficient industrial and commercial steam systems. Steam Thermal Solutions has global coverage across 67 operating units (called OpCos), organised into four Divisions: EMEA, APAC, Americas, Gestra.

Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.

Benefits

You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days’ paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts’ portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below.

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender-neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause-friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at https://www.spiraxgroup.com/en/life-at-spirax/our-inclusive-group/our-inclusion-commitments .

We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.