Contractor - Engineering Drawing Checker

Ricardo; Royal Leamington Spa; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Ricardo is seeking an experienced Engineering Drawing Checker to independently verify engineering drawings and related documentation before submission for approval. The role acts as a quality gate, ensuring compliance with company standards, industry drafting standards, GD&T requirements, and manufacturing constraints.

You will collaborate with Design Engineers, Chief Designers and Systems Engineers to identify and resolve drawing deficiencies, promote best practices, and ensure timely delivery

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent experience.
• Extensive GD&T knowledge and experience with tolerance stack analyses.
• Experience as a Senior Design Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, or Drawing Checker.
• Understanding of manufacturing processes and metrology principles.

Responsibilities

• Check Engineering drawings of Engine components.
• Verify fit, form, and function requirements are documented.
• Identify drawing errors, inconsistencies, and omissions before release.
• Ensure drawings communicate design intent clearly.
• Review assembly drawings for BOM structure and relationships.
• Assess manufacturability during drawing reviews.
• Highlight risks and recommend corrective actions.
• Provide coaching on GD&T best practice to engineers.
• Develop project drawing requirement documentation.
• Ensure documentation is released and controlled per procedures.
• Support drawing updates and change management processes.

Skills

GD&T expertise

Drawing verification

Tolerance analysis

Education

Bachelor/Master in mechanical engineering or equivalent

Tools

Windchill PLM

CREO

Job description

Overview

Contractor -Engineering Drawing Checker

Contract Type: Contractor

Overview

Role

Contractor -Engineering Drawing Checker

Contract Type: Contractor

Location: Shoreham-on-Sea or Leamington Spa

Role ID: 2026-3434

Ricardo - Pushing Boundaries: A World leader in propulsion engineering from concept to production

Ricardo is a trusted engineering partner specialising in complex propulsion, driveline, and energy systems. We work with customers globally to deliver end-to-end solutions from initial design through to full production. For over 110 years, we have been at the forefront of world changing engineering innovation, partnering with many of the world’s most ambitious organisations to improve performance, push boundaries, and accelerate progress.

Headquartered in Shoreham by Sea (UK), Ricardo brings together more than 1,000 experts and delivers in excess of 200 major programmes globally at any given time. For more information, visit www.ricardo.com

The Role

The Engineering Drawing Checker is responsible for the independent verification of engineering drawings and associated technical product documentation prior to submission to the Chief Designer for formal approval and release.

The role acts as a quality gate for engineering documentation, ensuring compliance with company standards, industry drafting standards, GD&T requirements and manufacturing requirements. The Engineering Drawing Checker works closely with Design Engineers, Chief Designers, Systems Engineers and other Drawing Checkers to identify and resolve drawing deficiencies, improve drawing quality and promote best practice in engineering documentation. The position requires extensive experience in the interpretation and application of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T), engineering drawing standards and manufacturing processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Check Engineering drawings of Engine components
• Verify fit, form, and function requirements are appropriately documented.
• Identify drawing errors, inconsistencies, and omissions before release.
• Ensure drawings clearly communicate design intent.
• Review assembly drawings to ensure correct bill of materials structure and component relationships.
• Assess manufacturability and assembly considerations during drawing reviews.
• Highlight technical risks and recommend corrective actions.
• Maintain drawing review checklists and contribute to continuous improvement activities.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to Design Engineers on engineering drawing standards and GD&T best practice.
• Contribute to the development of the project specific drawing requirement document.
• Verify documentation is released and controlled in accordance with departmental procedures.
• Support engineering change management processes and drawing updates

Key Competencies And Experience

• Degree (Bachelor or Masters) in mechanical engineering or similar field or with equivalent experience
• Demonstrable experience as a Senior Design Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer or Drawing Checker
• Expert GD&T knowledge ( BS 8888 and/or ISO TPD/GPS)
• Extensive practical application of GD&T principles.
• Experience performing or reviewing drawings and tolerance stack analyses.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes including machining, casting, fabrication and assembly.
• Knowledge of inspection methods and metrology principles
• Understanding of Engine design and engine technologies preferable but not a prerequisite
• Knowledge of Windchill PLM preferable but not a prerequisite
• Knowledge of CREO preferable but not a prerequisite
• Self-motivated
• Ability to work to tight deadlines
• Ability to work with minimum supervision

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 as explained here. 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 a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer. Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via [e-mail] if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.