Workshop Manager

TN United Kingdom; Norwich; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Workshop Manager to lead a dedicated team in a dynamic environment. This full-time role offers an exciting opportunity to drive maintenance excellence and enhance plant reliability. You will be responsible for fostering a motivated workforce, implementing best practices, and ensuring compliance with safety regulations. With a competitive salary and a range of benefits, including private healthcare and flexitime, this position is perfect for an enthusiastic leader ready to make a significant impact in the chemical engineering sector.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Contributory Private Healthcare

Life Assurance

Flexitime

Cycle to Work scheme

Free onsite car parking

Qualifications

• Experience in managing a large maintenance team in industrial settings.
• Knowledge of safety regulations and systems in high hazard environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead workshop technicians to ensure effective operations.
• Develop team members' skills and implement maintenance best practices.

Skills

Line management experience

Leadership skills

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Maintenance best practices

Mechanical experience

Electrical experience

Job description

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Workshop Manager – Norwich – Full Time / Permanent. Excellent Salary and benefits.

We are working on behalf of an established Chemical Engineering company in Norwich. We currently have an immediate full-time vacancy for a Workshop Manager. We are seeking applications for this excellent opportunity. We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly driven and experienced problem solver with exceptional communication and leadership skills. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, the Workshop Manager is responsible for safe and effective leadership of the workshop technicians to provide resource support across key areas of the business.

Experience Required

• Line management experience from an industrial workplace with high hazard environments, with knowledge of applicable regulations and safe systems of work in industrial environments
• Strong leadership and able to provide examples of dealing with both a large maintenance team and individuals to achieve excellent service to stakeholders
• Experience of developing team members’ competence, capabilities, motivation and driving forward a maintenance team
• Effective deployment of maintenance best practises to improve plant reliability
• Generation of procedures, method statements, or instructions for maintenance tasks
• Multi-tasking / pragmatic decision making – using reliability data to identify improvement needs
• Relevant mechanical experience of fixed and rotating equipment
• Electrical experience to ensure effective interaction with ECI disciplines
• Exceptional communication skills, ability to engage with direct reports, customers, management and other stakeholders enthusiastically and effectively to deliver results

Remuneration

In addition to a competitive salary the following benefits are on offer.

• 25 days’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays.
• Contributory Private Healthcare scheme.
• Life Assurance
• Flexitime
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• Free, onsite car parking

This is a full-time role – Monday to Friday, 39 hours per week.