Workshop Supervisor

Job Title:           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