Mechanical Workshop Manager

Salary: £72,000 – £74,400 per year

Due to an Internal promotion and growing demand for mechanical engineering services from clients, this growing Mechanical Engineering repairs Workshop is seeking a Workshop Manager to support a busy Mechanical Services Manager. This role requires good experience of manual/conventional turning, milling and boring machines. This is a pivotal leadership role in a large, well-equipped, and busy machine shop providing 24/7/365 machining, fitting, welding, and site support services to a wide range of industries and utilities in the Northwest. Duties include: –

• Managing a team of 20 including manual machinists/drivers/labourers/admin
• Manage, develop, and provide technical support to a large team of multi-skilled workshop/site operatives.
• Ensure that appropriate workshop procedures are in place and adhered to.
• Accurately cost jobs and prepare quotations.
• Organising the work through the shop – most of the jobs last no more than 2-3 days
• Ensuring work is done to agreed lead times and efficiencies
• Meet clients on their site a price up jobs
• Implement new processes and procedures in the workshop
• Managing compliance machine guidelines
• Communicate with the customers and field calls – ring customers and give progress reports and paperwork
• Working shifts – one weekend in 4 or 3 and a Saturday every now again and out of hours
• Liaise with customers to assess, cost and progress works
• Monitor and control progress of jobs to ensure tasks are completed in line with estimated/quoted times.
• Monitor and inspect all jobs in progress at key stages and prior to delivery; ensure all findings are recorded.
• Ensure that PPE is issued and used as appropriate.
• Ensure that all equipment is safe, in good order and stored in the correct location when not in use.

To apply you will be: –

• A reliable mechanical engineering manager who thrives on a varied workload, are a proven leader, and are fully conversant with recent experience of conventional/machining, ideally with experience of mechanical fitting, please apply as we would like to hear from you.
• Firm but fair people management experience
• City & Guilds/Time serviced manual/conventional machining experience
• Pricing and costing of jobs experience
• Strong leadership experience
• of improving efficiencies
• Good IT skills in MS Office

What’s on offer: –

• Excellent salary
• Car allowance or company car
• Discretionary bonus
• Private healthcare
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Death in service cover