Workshop Manager

Salary: £72,000 per year

This long-established Workshop that specialises in the repairs of grinders, transformers, and motors as well as winding and manufacturing is seeking an experienced Workshop Manager. Your role will be to manage around 10-15 people daily and your duties will include: –

• Streamlining the workshop and putting in processes and services
• Overseeing the work in the workshop including repairing electrical motors, grinders, and transformers, conducting repairs, and making prototype motors. Repairing grinders and transformers.
• Providing technical expertise and advice to workshop staff with regards to prototype/production winding, transformer manufacture and information on electric vehicle motors
• Provide technical sales support for transformers and prototype winding
• Allocate jobs and monitor progress including job times in line with quotations
• Monitor and inspect all jobs in progress at key stages and prior to delivery, ensuring all findings are recorded
• Winding, repairs, and manufacturing. Industries you will deal with include foundries.
• Overseeing a team of around10-15
• Supervising overtime including weekends or Saturday morning
• Meeting with customers and pricing up work
• Allocating jobs
• Managing the Workshop supervisor
• Setting kpi’s and targets
• Responsible for recruitment of staff
• Site work – mange electrical related work on site including writing of RAMS, ensuring work in progress and scheduling
• Must have quoting and pricing experience
• Making sure quality systems are of IS09000 standard

To apply you must have: –

• Workshop managerial/supervisory experience and theory, design, and manufacture of rotating electrical machinery – essential
• Experience in the design and manufacture of transformers – essential

• Experience of electrical engineering, particularly of rotating equipment including, but not limited to electric motors and an in-depth knowledge of transformers
• HND or similar in electrical engineering or higher (ideal)
• Good theoretical knowledge around electrical sense of motors – break the theory down
• Motors/rewinds background (ideal)
• Good, solid people management experience

What is on offer: –

• £72,000 plus overtime pay
• 8-4.30 pm
• Car allowance or company car
• Bonus scheme
• 25 days holiday