Workshop Manager

Path Recruitment Ltd; Tenbury Wells; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Van

Healthcare scheme

Pension scheme

22 days holiday + bank holidays

Job summary

Path Recruitment Ltd is recruiting a hands-on Workshop Manager for a well-established construction company, based at a depot near Tenbury Wells. You will lead a professional engineering team and supervise service engineers, managing workloads and deadlines.

You will plan logistics for spare parts, tools, transport and manpower; you’ll be hands-on with mechanical or electrical work on plant machinery and train the engineering team.

Qualifications

• Experience in construction industry as workshop manager or equivalent.
• Full UK driving licence.
• Experience managing engineers in plant hire, agricultural, vehicle, automotive or HGV.

Responsibilities

• Supervise service engineers regarding time and workloads.
• Plan logistics for spare parts, tools, transport and manpower.
• Hands-on mechanical or electrical work on plant machinery.
• Check timesheets and inspection reports.
• Train and develop the engineering team.

Skills

Team leadership

Time management

Logistics planning

Hands-on engineering

Job description

Workshop Manager - Salary up to £45,000 DOE plus great benefits. Are you ready to join a well established company that provides market-leading products to the industrial and construction sectors? You will be based at one of their depots near Tenbury Wells, where you will be joining a professional engineering team.

Benefits of the Workshop Manager Role:

• Monday to Friday working hours.
• Salary up to £45k DOE.
• Company Van
• 22 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• Healthcare scheme.
• Pension scheme.

The Company:

You would be working for a well-established construction company that prides itself on providing outstanding customer service. To uphold their reputation, they are continuously finding ways to improve and streamline the business, to ensure they keep building a strong brand that many customers can rely on and come back to time and time again. To assist with the workload, they are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic workshop manager who has the ability to work within a fast-paced environment and motivate the team to work efficiently and effectively.

Job Role:

• As the workshop manager, you will be supervising the service engineers in relation to time and workloads and the ability to make clear and accurate decisions.
• You will need to have experience in parts ordering and effectively plan the logistics for spare parts, tools, transport, and manpower to arrive in a timely manner.
• You will be hands-on, assisting with any mechanical or electrical work on a range of plant machinery including telehandlers, dumpers or diggers.
• Checking and processing time sheets and inspection reports.
• You will need to be able to train and develop your engineering team.

To be successful in this role, you will need to have previous experience within the construction industry as a workshop manager, workshop supervisor, workshop foreperson, chargehand, service manageror senior engineer. You will hold a full UK driving license. You will also have previous experience managing engineers within the plant hire, agricultural, vehicle, automotive or HGV background.