Workshop Chief

W Racingteam; United States; Remote; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

W Racingteam in the United States seeks a WRT Workshop Chief to lead daily workshop operations, including logistics, stores, and infrastructure. The role requires a technical background, facility management experience, and strong communication to set priorities according to race programs.

You will coordinate with program managers, manage the service vehicle fleet, supervise workshop staff, and promote high standards, quality of service, and team spirit while ensuring health and safety compliance.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of safety at work and facility management.
• Technical understanding of buildings and space planning.
• Pro-active, flexible mindset with a can-do attitude.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with program managers to support requirements.
• Oversee fleet maintenance and legal compliance.
• Schedule service vehicles and trucks to maximize saturation and efficiency.
• Collaborate with truck drivers or chief trucky.
• Lead workshop workforce with program managers to ensure productivity.
• Responsible for supply chain activities with program managers.
• Oversee maintenance, space utilization and repairs.
• Ensure health and safety compliance with H&S Responsible.
• Coordinate relocation of the workshop with construction oversight and reporting.

Skills

Facility management

Safety at work

Communication skills

Project prioritization

Logistics coordination

Truck driving licence

Job description

The WRT Workshop Chiefwill manage the daily operations in the workshop including logistics, stores, and infrastructure. They have a technical background and experience and knowledge of facility management. Strong communication skills are needed and the ability to set priorities in function of the workload and the race programs; The Chief Workshop is motivated to reach goals and objectives and promote high-standards, quality of service and team spirit in the workforce.

The duties of the WRT Workshop Chiefwill include:

• Technical support:
• Coordinate with the program managers to support requirements of the different WRT business lines and activities.
• Logistic support:
  • Manage the maintenance and legal compliance of WRT service vehicle and truck fleet.
• Manage and schedules the use of WRT service vehicles and trucks for the different WRT business lines and activities to ensure saturation and efficiency.
• Collaborate the truck drivers or work together with the chief trucky.
• Management of race shop work-force:
  • Work in close collaboration with the program managers to efficiently employ the workforce to ensure productivity.
• Supply chain:
  • Responsible for the supply chain management in collaboration with the individual program managers of the different WRT business lines and activities.
• Infrastructure:
  • Manage the maintenance and space utilization, execute repaire.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety requirements interfacing with the WRT Health and Safety Responsible.
• Knowledge of the construction sector for the coordination of the relocation of the workshop, monitoring the execution of the work and reporting to the management.

The WRT Workshop Chief should have the following desired skillset:

• Knowledge of safety at work, facility management and the technical aspects of buildings.
• Hands on approach with a flexible “Can Do” & “Will Do” attitude.
• Flexible with workload and tight deadline.
• Knowledge of French and English required, notions of German and Dutch considered as a bonus.
• Pro-active problem solver & strong communicator.
• Strong organisation and planning capacities.
• Truck driving licence is a plus.
• Promote our values (People, Passion, Performance) and commit to personal investment into the WRT ESG strategy.