About this role
Workshop Manager
Job Summary
Responsible for overseeing the maintenance and repair of heavy-duty trucks and trailers, ensuring efficient workflow, high-quality workmanship, and excellent customer service.
The ideal candidate will have strong technical knowledge, excellent leadership and management skills, and the ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment.
Key Duties and Responsibilities;
- Overseeing the daily management of DSR Fleet’s workshop and its operations, which includes fostering team productivity, inventory management, quality fleet maintenance, people engagement/management and zero level of down time in workshop equipment’s.
- Supervise, manage, and motivate staff within the operation of the workshop to achieve quality results. o Ensure the availability and use of the right tools and equipment in the maintenance workshop.
- Establish safe procedures (SOPs) for all maintenance repair work of the company.
- Prioritize and assign scheduled work to subordinates to meet company deadlines and customer needs.
- Coordinate schedule and audit transport fleet and equipment maintenances and repair to include preventive mechanical and electrical repair to tractors trucks and trailers.
- Reduce fleet downtime by providing speedy rescue to distressed company trucks and equipment Negotiate service (maintenance/repair) offers to ensure cost efficiencies.
- Coach technical team on the identification of faults and ways of reporting feedback.
- Ensure that repairs are performed in a professional manner and in accordance with company’s accepted good practice.
- Accomplishes workshop team results by communicating job expectations, planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.
- Facilitating corrections to malfunctions; initiating and fostering a spirit of cooperation amongst workshop team members.
- Liaise with Human Resources to conduct safety meetings with the workshop team.
- Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.
- Keeps equipment operational by coordinating maintenance and repair services.
Job Requirement:
- BSc / HND in Mechanical Engineering
- 10+ Years Cognate Experience in Fleet maintenance/Heavy Duty Truck Maintenance
- NSE / COREN