Workshop Supervisor

Overview

Our client, an award-winning rotating equipment repairs workshop, is seeking a Workshop Supervisor for their electrical repairs division. You will report to the Workshop Manager and oversee a team of workshop electrical fitters and other personnel.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and provide technical support to workshop operatives on the bench and ensure timely clocking.
• Dismantle and inspect work to ensure nothing is missed.
• Test motors.
• Repair motors and rotating equipment, including gearboxes, pumps and generators.
• Ensure workload is managed in the workshop and that the team maintains a high standard of customer service from start to finish.
• Progress jobs through the workshop.
• Check what work is required and order parts.
• Cover for the Workshop Manager to price up jobs when on annual leave.
• Ensure parts are ordered.
• When parts arrive, allocate team members to assemble, test and verify work before dispatch to customers.
• Ensure correct workshop procedures are carried out on the shop floor.
• Allocate jobs to operatives and monitor progress, including job times in line with quotations; collaborate with the Purchasing Clerk to progress jobs as parts are received.
• Monitor and inspect all jobs in progress at key stages and prior to delivery; record all findings.
• Maintain training records for operatives.
• Deputise for the Workshop Manager when required and take responsibility for all workshop activity.
• Manage calibration of measuring equipment.
• Attend sites as required for costings or site work, in line with workshop workload.
• Join the on-call team handling out-of-hours calls.

What you will need to apply

• Experience as a workshop electrical fitter with work across motors including AC and DC machines.
• Experience repairing rotating equipment from an electrical perspective, including motors, pumps, gearboxes and generators.
• Right to work in the UK permanently (sponsorship not provided).
• Located in the Greater Manchester/North West of England area or willing to relocate.
• Supervisory, management, team leader or senior experience is preferred.
• Full clean driving licence.
• Ability to cover shifts on a rota basis.

What’s on offer

• On-call work is required, with additional pay for on-call duties.
• Free parking.
• OTE around £55,000 (overtime paid at time-and-a-half and double time).
• Career progression.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Management and Manufacturing

Industries

• Technology, Information and Internet

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