# Plant Quality Technician **Company**: Prodrive **Location**: Birmingham **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: mid **Category**: Manufacturing **Industry**: Automotive **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4377472 **Apply**: https://careers.prodrive.com/vacancies/plant-quality-technician?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_8fb867d9-0e1 ## Description At Prodrive, we believe there's no limit to what can be achieved when the brightest minds come together. We are looking for a Quality Technician to be responsible for the inspection and quality verification of complete vehicles entering and leaving our new Birmingham-based Car Build facility, ensuring that vehicles meet defined specifications, quality standards, customer requirements, and release criteria. **Key Responsibilities** - Conduct detailed incoming vehicle inspections, recording vehicle condition, damage, defects, and other relevant observations prior to work commencing. - Conduct final and outgoing vehicle inspections to verify that completed vehicles conform to build specifications, engineering requirements, customer requirements, and defined quality standards prior to release. - Verify that vehicle modifications, assemblies, and installed components have been completed correctly and meet defined inspection criteria. - Carry out functional checks and basic measurement activities using appropriate inspection and test equipment. - Identify, document, and communicate defects and non-conformances, including photographic evidence where appropriate. - Raise and maintain quality records for incoming, in-process, and outgoing inspections, ensuring traceability of inspection results and vehicle status. - Support production teams in identifying and resolving quality issues and preventing defects from progressing through the build process. - Verify completed work against drawings, specifications, build instructions, inspection standards, and other controlled documentation. - Work collaboratively with Engineering, Production, Supply Chain, and Quality to maintain consistent quality standards and effective communication of quality issues. **Who are we looking for?** - Proven experience in a quality inspection, quality assurance, or quality control role, preferably within automotive, vehicle manufacturing, vehicle conversion, mechanical assembly, or a similar environment. - Experience inspecting complete vehicles or complex mechanical/electrical assemblies. - Good understanding of vehicle systems, mechanical assemblies, and general automotive construction. - Experience carrying out incoming, in-process, and final/outgoing inspections. - Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, build instructions, and inspection criteria. - Knowledge of basic inspection techniques and use of measurement and test equipment. - Experience with PDI, final inspection, or release inspection processes. - Strong attention to detail and a systematic approach to inspection. - Good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly report defects and communicate quality concerns to production and engineering personnel. ## Skills ### Required - vehicle inspection - quality verification - automotive construction - mechanical assemblies - electrical assemblies - inspection techniques - measurement and test equipment ### Nice to have - PDI - final inspection - release inspection processes --- Source: [Apply at careers.prodrive.com](https://careers.prodrive.com/vacancies/plant-quality-technician?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)