Workshop Manager

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Here at Banner Plant, we operate a highly successful plant hire company. Our people are our passion and the driving force behind our achievements. Our hire fleet consists of exciting and modern machines that are imperative to the build process of today’s skylines.

Due to continued success and business growth, we are looking for a Workshop Manager to join our friendly team at our Rotherham, South Yorkshire Depot.

The Role

The Workshop Manager will play a vital role in the success of our busy Depot with the primary purpose to effectively lead and manage workshop activities to maximise hire equipment returns; whilst ensuring all work is carried out, ensuring full compliance with the appropriate health, safety, legislative, quality, Company Policies, Procedures and Legal requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the workshop and yard to maximise profitability, and optimise quality whilst delivering against company and customer service expectations.
• Provide guidance and support to the team on complex mechanical issues.
• Lead, coach and motivate the workshop team ensuring individuals are aware of their objectives, are competent to achieve them and performance is monitored and assessed.
• Ensure that training and development needs are identified, addressed and monitored, including delivering training sessions as required.
• Provide input and contribution to continuous improvement activities.
• Build and maintain strong internal and external stakeholder relationships

About You

The successful candidate will have a strong Plant maintenance and diagnostic background with an excellent understanding of heavy plant machinery ranging from Bowsers, Compressors, Dumpers, Forklifts, Excavators, Rollers and Telehandlers.

As part of our successful depot team, the successful applicant will demonstrate:

• An NVQ in Plant Operations or equivalent
• CAP Card Qualifiction
• Experience in a Supervisory/Team Leader role
• Ability to diagnose, inspect, test, maintain and repair plant equipment
• Possess strong attention to detail and accuracy with the ability to work effectively to strict deadlines.

We are passionate about our people, and we are committed to your career development with us. You will have full access to our learning and development team, and we encourage you to consider your own training desires and make suggestions. We pride ourselves on fully supporting you to undertake training and education to achieve your goals and objectives.

Our Offer

We believe that we have a competitive and progressive benefits package to help shape and support you both inside and outside of work:

• Premium Tool Insurance Reimbursement Scheme
• We pay you a competitive salary – we are committed to promoting equality and diversity and gender pay parity;
• We will provide you with access to electric and hybrid vehicle leasing through our salary sacrifice scheme;
• We share our future financial success with our profit share scheme;
• We invest in your future with our pension plan provided by AVIVA;
• We protect your loved ones by providing a life assurance benefit based on multiples of salary;
• We support you when you might have health concerns for you or your family with our AVIVA Digital GP app;
• We will help you manage the balance of work and home with agile working (where possible) and flexibility to ensure that you can be there for those important life events;
• We give you 24 days of annual leave, with the ability to buy additional leave.
• We support a full business closure between Christmas and New Year, which does not require you to use your annual leave entitlement;
• We give you enhanced pay if you take leave due to becoming a parent however you become a parent;
• We support your career aspirations; we are committed to personal growth and internal talent development;
• We offer you access to our Cycle to Work salary sacrifice scheme, which includes access to e-bikes;
• We support you at times when you need external support with our Employee Assistance Programme.

About Us

Banner Plant is a long-established plant hire company offering a wide range of products and services for hire and sale. Our head office is in Dronfield, on the edge of Sheffield, with hire centres located in Dronfield (Sheffield), Chesterfield, Derby, Leeds, Leicester, Rotherham and Ossett.

We’re part of the Henry Boot Group of Companies. We’ve defined what makes working with us so special in our unique initiative, the ‘Henry Boot Way’. This influences our culture and how we do things and, most importantly, strengthens the relationship between employer and employee.

Equality and Diversity

Since 1886 our business has always put our people first, so we’re totally committed to offering an equal opportunity to every individual who joins us.

STRICTLY NO AGENCIES. UNSOLICITED APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

The Henry Boot Group of Companies reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Casual dress
• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Private medical insurance
• Profit sharing
• Referral programme
• Sick pay

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

• ROTHERHAM: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Licence/Certification:

• NVQ L2 in Plant Operations or equivalent (preferred)
• CAP Card Qualification (preferred)

Work Location: One location