Role: Store Person  

Location: On-site at Ricardo Shoreham-by-Sea, UK 

Job ID: 2024 - 2292  

Automotive and Industrial, part the Ricardo PLC Group is a trusted global engineering services partner for clean and efficient integrated propulsion and energy systems.  

Our experience and history over more than 100 years at the forefront of mobility innovation, enables us to deliver solutions to the most complex challenges, allowing our customers across all global transport sectors to achieve a sustainable zero-carbon future. 

Purpose 

Ricardo’s A&I Division are seeking an enthusiastic and dynamic Store Person to join an existing build project and the site stores team. The role is primarily for a specific project that is already underway but would extend to assisting the general Shoreham site stores and project teams. 

We are passionate about providing quality products to our customers and in order to facilitate the build, the teams rely on highly organised, pragmatic and methodical parts management. 

Key accountabilities 

This role is critical to the management of hardware to support the build of a complex product. The selected Stores Person will be required to undertake the following: 

• Accepting deliveries. 
• Moving hardware. 

• Checking parts are correct, undamaged and meet the required specification. 
• Reporting any discrepancies to the project team. 
• Logging parts in wasp, generating labels and allocating items to the appropriate project store area racking. 
• Selecting hardware for the next step of the build and providing a batch of items to the build team. 
• Issue of kits of parts for production.
• Becoming involved with the project Bill of Materials to help with the logistics of when parts are required for the build and when they are due in. 
• Management of stock including stock takes. 
• Contributing to possible improvements to stores and inventory processes. 

Preferred skills and experience  

A broad combination of the following skills and characteristics would be important in the role:  

• High attention to detail. 
• Good organisational skills. 
• High standard of cleanliness and tidiness.  
• A practical, logical and process driven approach. 
• Self-motivated and able to work unsupervised. 
• An ability to work on your own and within a team. 
• Have good communication and interpersonal skills.  
• Strong sense of ownership. 

• Able to document clearly and be meticulous with tracking hardware. 
• Can do attitude.  
• Flexible and able to work under pressure. 
• IT skills, including Excel, Wasp, Printing and scanning, Emails (Outlook). 
• Forklift licence. 

Working with Ricardo 

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. 

Wellbeing and work life balance 

Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential. Our People are important to us, and we take pride in our wellbeing programs and policies that support individuals including flexible working, careers policy, mental health first aiders and readily available support through our extensive Employee Assistance program. 

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion 

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 can create 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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