Workshop Supervisor

Workshop Supervisor

Location: Warrington, Cheshire

Salary: £50K + Bonus + Overtime

Hours: Mon – Fri 08:00-16:45hrs

Contract: Permanent

We are looking for a motivated and reliable Workshop Supervisor to join our growing operations team. This is a hands-on role suited to someone who thrives in a fast-paced engineering environment and has experience within a heavy engineering industry.

Due to business growth, we are recruiting for an experienced Workshop Supervisor who will be 50% hands-on in the workshop, and 50% supervisor duties.

As the Workshop Supervisor, your duties will be: -

* Ensuring all health and safety procedures are adhered to at all times.

* Managing a small team engineers to ensure orders are on schedule.

* Allocate workloads and communicate job/projects progression.

* Make recommendations/technical decisions on orders.

* Checking materials and parts are available for projects.

* Stripping, inspecting, rebuilding, and testing gearboxes/transmissions.

* Fault finding/repairing hydraulic, mechanical faults

* Completing reports and repair documentation

* Bench testing rebuilt units before they go back to customers.

* Liaising with field engineers or customers about technical issues

* Maintaining workshop cleanliness, tooling, and safety procedures

The successful Workshop Supervisor will have the following skills: -

* Experience managing small teams.

* Must be a time served Mechanical Engineer.

* Solid background in a Heavy Engineering/Mechanical Engineering role.

* Ideally have experience with presses/lathes/milling machines/surface grinders.

* Ability to read technical drawings.

* IT literate

* Confident and excellent communication skills.

* Excellent organisational skills.

Additional Benefits

* Competitive base salary, and overtime payments.

* Yearly bonus

* 25 days holiday + bank holidays increasing to 30 with service.

* Death in service benefit.

* Private medical insurance
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed