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Workshop Manager

Posted :2024/01/24

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Job Type

Permanent

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Salary Range

£37,000 to £42,000 pa

Description

Are you a Workshop Manager or Service Manager looking for a new role? Are you confident in leading a small team workshop engineers and support staff in delivering service, repair and PDI duties? Are you looking for a role where you can help create and improve working practice to drive performance and output?

Kingscroft have been asked to recruit for a Workshop Manager by a specialist supplier of Forklift Trucks and related equipment. As the ideal candidate you will have experience of managing in a workshop or service centre where you have had responsibility for quality, profitability and resources. You should be a good man manger and create a positive, best practice orientated environment.

Your role and responsibilities will include:
Responsibilities Include: -

• Lead, manage, coach, and motivate a team of engineers and 1 logistics person.
• Measure workshop productivity, quality and efficiency and ensure targets are met.
• Lead and promote a safe working culture across Workshops and Logistics.
• To complete regular workshop inspections ensuring fully operational and safe.
• Carry out audits of tooling needs and calibration, PAT testing, PPE requirements.
• Undertake assessment of training needs and skills development.
• Responsible for toolbox talks with workshop.
• Responsible for stock levels of parts and consumables from both practical and budget perspective.
• Allocate jobs to engineers. Plan workshop volumes, ensuring trucks are delivered, on spec and on time without compromising quality.
• Plan, manage and evaluate all logistics activities, liaising with internal stakeholders, suppliers, external transport providers and customers.
• Responsible for managing and escalating all technical and parts related queries derived from workshop activity.
This is a fantastic chance to join a rapidly developing business in a role that will be central to its growth and success.
Please apply today for a confidential discussion on the role.

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