Workshop Manager
Chiddingfold | Permanent, full-time| £40,000 - £45,000 per annum
JA1343 - Workshop Manager
Location: Liphook
Salary: £40,000 - £45,000
Overview:
First Military Recruitment are currently seeking a Workshop Manager on behalf of one of our clients, a long-established supplier of engineering machine tools to the UK hobby and light industrial markets.
Our client encourages applications from ex-military personnel however all candidates will be given due consideration.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Skills and Qualifications:
Salary: £40,000 - £45,000
Location: Liphook
Salary: £40,000 - £45,000
Overview:
First Military Recruitment are currently seeking a Workshop Manager on behalf of one of our clients, a long-established supplier of engineering machine tools to the UK hobby and light industrial markets.
Our client encourages applications from ex-military personnel however all candidates will be given due consideration.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Management of the warehouse.
- Seeking an experienced engineer with both mechanical and electrical backgrounds and skills to work on a range of lathes, mills and drills.
- Manual (non-CNC) turning, milling and light fabrication skills will be necessary and the position will be predominately workshop based with some occasional customer site visits from time to time.
- Use your metalworking background to solve workshop issues, find and rectify faults.
- Carry out testing and commissioning of new machines.
- Check machines against specification and quality criteria.
- Fabrication of parts and undertake general metalworking tasks.
- Carry out refurbishment of used machinery.
- You will be able to undertake metalworking tasks including drilling, tapping and fitting accessories onto machines.
- Occasional client site visits for repairs, specialist installs and collections will be required.
- Provide technical support to the sales team and direct with customer.
- Provide holiday, sickness and general cover during busy periods in the warehouse as required.
Skills and Qualifications:
- You will have a mechanical engineering background.
- You will be proficient in electrical 240v and 440v and electrical controls.
- You will have management experience ideally in warehouse management.
- The ability to draft technical manuals.
- You will need to be able to wire up machinery, conforming to current electrical safety standards.
- Experience with quality assurance systems and procedures would be advantageous.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Practical experience in a comparable role.
- Good telephone manner and be comfortable dealing with customer technical queries.
- Be a flexible, adaptable, team worker and able to work safely and without supervision under you own initiative.
- Be committed to delivering a high level of customer service.
- Be computer literate.
- Possess a clean UK drivers licence.
Salary: £40,000 - £45,000