£50000 per annum
About the Role
The Workshop Supervisor will oversee daily operations in Warrington, managing a small engineering team within a heavy engineering setting. This permanent, full-time role offers a £50,000 salary alongside bonus and overtime, with working hours of Monday to Friday, 08:00-16:45. The position is split equally between hands-on workshop tasks and supervisory responsibilities. Key duties include enforcing health and safety procedures, allocating workloads, monitoring project progress, and ensuring orders remain on schedule. Candidates must possess proven experience in heavy engineering and demonstrate strong leadership abilities to coordinate the team effectively.
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
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