Temp Receptionist​/Administrator

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

To be the first point of contact for all visitors arriving on site rseeing the Reception area and switchboard. You will also be covering the administrator role for a large team of engineers as well as for your own department where you will be responsible for travel bookings and other administrative tasks.

You will be based largely at the reception desk but you will be required to visit other areas of the site to liaise with your colleagues.

• Greet all visitors and sign them in using the electronic system.
• Assign visitor badges and corresponding lanyard.
• Answer and transfer calls via the switchboard.
• Enter new starters on the Mitre Finch system.
• Create new badges for new staff and replace damaged cards.
• Manage the diary for the conference rooms and video conferencing.
• Keeping the reception area clean and tidy.
• Administration duties to engineering department (travel bookings, expenses, typing up notes etc)
• Administrative duties for the Site Management department including contractor management database.

• Knowledge of MS Office Word, and Excel
• Knowledge of Outlook

• Ability to work on own initiative
• Flexible
• Team Player
• Professional telephone manner

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.

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

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