Quality Inspector

Quality Inspector - Portsmouth, UK Contract: 6 months (likely to extend) | Inside IR35 Rates: £35 per hour Umbrella / £26.26 PAYE An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Quality Inspector to join our client in Portsmouth, supporting cutting-edge space and aerospace programmes. This Quality Inspector role offers the chance to work within a highly controlled cleanroom environment, ensuring production and testing activities meet world-class quality standards. As a Quality Inspector, you will play a key role in ensuring products meet strict design and compliance standards throughout the production lifecycle. You will work closely with engineering, manufacturing and quality teams to promote a "quality-first" culture and prevent non-conformities at every stage. Key Responsibilities In this role, you will monitor and uphold cleanroom quality processes, carry out detailed inspection and verification activities on flight hardware and test setups and ensure all work aligns with ECSS standards. You will identify and investigate non-conformities, support root cause analysis, and contribute to process improvements. The Quality Inspector will also perform audits, complete documentation and verification checks, and support key inspection points such as critical moves, testing readiness and flight packing. Maintaining strict adherence to health and safety standards and ensuring effective environmental controls within the cleanroom will also be essential. Requirements Essential: • Experience within a Quality Inspector or similar quality assurance role • Background in aerospace, defence or a highly regulated manufacturing environment • Strong understanding of quality standards and inspection processes • Experience identifying and resolving non-conformities • Ability to work within cleanroom or controlled environments Desirable: • Familiarity with ECSS standards (e.g. ECSS-Q-ST-70 series) • Experience supporting audits and root cause investigations • Knowledge of inspection processes for flight hardware or high-precision components This contract role offers a competitive hourly rate and the opportunity to work on high-profile, technically advanced projects. Ready to take your next career step?Click Apply Now for a confidential chat today! This vacancy is being advertised by Belcan