Workshop Manager: Lead Team, Scheduling & Quality

TECNA; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

25 days' annual leave

Company pension

Regular company events

Job summary

Tecna designs and delivers exhibition stands, brand activations and event environments from Farnborough. We seek an experienced Workshop Manager to lead the workshop and production team, focusing on people management, workload planning and a safe, efficient environment.

You will partner with the Head of Operations and Projects team to ensure timely delivery, quality finishes and cost control, while developing apprentices and technicians for growth.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing a workshop, production, fabrication or manufacturing team.
• Strong leadership and people management skills with coaching and performance management.
• Experience planning workloads and scheduling resources.
• Strong Health & Safety understanding in a workshop.
• Experience managing budgets, materials and workshop costs.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the workshop team day-to-day, allocating workloads and ensuring projects are delivered on time and to the required standard.
• Conduct regular 1-to-1s, performance reviews and development discussions with team members.
• Create individual development plans and support progression opportunities across the team.
• Take ownership of Tecna's apprenticeship programme, ensuring apprentices receive structured training and mentoring.
• Foster a positive, accountable and high-performing culture focused on quality and teamwork.
• Own workshop scheduling and resource planning, ensuring production activities are coordinated effectively across multiple projects.
• Work closely with the Head of Operations, Install Manager and Projects team to ensure all work is built, finished and dispatched on time.
• Maintain a safe, organised and compliant workshop environment.
• Take ownership of Health & Safety within the workshop, ensuring safe systems of work, training, inspections and documentation are maintained.
• Manage the workshop equipment, machinery and tools, ensuring they are properly maintained and fit for purpose.
• Implement and manage a structured process for triaging materials and equipment returned from site.
• Maximise reuse opportunities and drive responsible management of stock and materials to reduce waste and control costs.
• Manage the workshop materials and consumables budget, ensuring spend is monitored, controlled and reported.
• Support material selection decisions, bringing a broad understanding of fabrication methods, finishes and alternatives.
• Ensure all work leaving the workshop meets Tecna's quality standards and is delivered consistently in terms of finish, materials and approach.

Skills

People management

Workshop management

Workload planning

Health & safety

Budget management

Organisational skills

Exhibition build

Leadership

Job description

Tecna designs and delivers exhibition stands, brand activations and event environments from Farnborough. We seek an experienced Workshop Manager to lead the workshop and production team, focusing on people management, workload planning and a safe, efficient environment.

You will partner with the Head of Operations and Projects team to ensure timely delivery, quality finishes and cost control, while developing apprentices and technicians for growth.