Night Shift Workshop Service Manager

West Thurrock
1 month ago
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We’re looking for a Night Shift Workshop Service Manager to join our team at our East London depot to manage all workshop engineering activities. You’ll likely be working in a plant rental business now or in your recent past, with excellent people management experience and an engineering background. This is a great opportunity to join a thriving business and the UK market leader in powered access.

The night shift is Monday to Thursday 6pm to 6am with one hour break on each shift.

In return you will receive: Competitive Salary plus 20% Shift Allowance, Van & Fuel Card, 25 days annual leave (pro rata for contract and part time hours and/or shifts, Westfield Health Cash Plan, Auto enrolment pension scheme, Life Assurance and access to our retail discount portal.

Responsibilities include:

• Manage all resources related to the maintenance of a large mixed fleet of Powered Access Equipment.
• Ensure effective implementation of all engineering policies and procedures.
• Maintain high level of equipment availability and reliability at optimal cost.
• Support compliance to all legislative requirements, and internal QHSE standards.
• Deliver technical initiatives and projects through to satisfactory outcome.
• Ensure continuous improvement in all engineering standards, using best practice.
• Produce qualitative and quantitative engineering related information.
• Manage workshop labour and administrative resources to achieve all specified maintenance standards and objectives.
• Manage appropriate fleet hire availability through day-book.
• Provide technical advice to location staff.
• Ensure all maintenance actions are carried out to appropriate standard and in within acceptable timescale e.g. service, Thorough Examination etc.
• Ensure all engineering related initiatives are carried out to appropriate standard and within acceptable timescales.
• Ensure safe systems of work are applied to all activities carried out.
• Report on engineering outputs as required.
• Report engineering incidents or issues, including warranty failures and customer damage.
• Identify collective and individual staff training needs.
• Deliver technical ‘tool-box talk’ type information sessions to engineering staff.
• Contribute to inter-group projects and initiatives.

About you:

• Previous experience of engineering supervision within a plant hire environment
• Formally trained in an engineering discipline, and qualified to C&G 390, NVQ level 3, or equivalent
• Good upward and downward communication skills.
• Current powered access equipment knowledge preferred, but not essential.

Nationwide Platforms is the market-leading powered access rental company in the UK providing a fleet of more than 15,500 machines with working heights from 3m to 90m.

With a depot network spanning 38 depots, Nationwide Platforms provide its customers with leading safe access solutions for working at height. It also has the largest powered access training department in Europe, delivering a comprehensive range of working at height training courses to powered access operators and the wider access industry.

Nationwide Platforms is part of Loxam, Europe’s largest equipment rental company operating in 30 countries

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