National Maintenance Manager - Quarry and Aggregates

Commercial Workshop & Maintenance Manager - Mobile Plant

South Wales (HQ) with national travel

Newport

Yolk Recruitment are exclusively supporting a leading heavy mobile plant business in the quarrying and aggregates sector to recruit a Commercial Workshop & Maintenance Manager. This is an excellent opportunity for an ex plant engineer turned manager to take ownership of a busy workshop and build the commercial side of the business, developing a profitable external repair portfolio and bringing in new customers.

This is what you'll be doing.

As Commercial Workshop & Maintenance Manager, you'll be part of the senior Engineering/Assets structure, working closely with the Workshop Manager and reporting into the Asset Director. You will:

• Lead the growth of the workshop's external repair portfolio, developing business with both existing and new customers.
• Own the commercial life cycle of external jobs: enquiries, scoping, quoting, job costing, margin recovery and follow up.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with quarry, aggregates and construction clients as the main point of contact for workshop based repairs and overhauls.
• Drive visibility of workshop performance - utilisation, efficiency, recovery rate, WIP, lead times, first time fix and rework/returns - and deliver tangible improvements.
• Work closely with Finance and Maintenance to create clear cost/profit baselines and move the workshop towards full profit centre operation.
• Standardise and improve processes around quoting, approvals, repair standards, documentation and sign off to protect margin and improve customer experience.
• Support, coach and challenge the workshop team day to day, helping to raise standards and recruit new engineers into the department where required.
• Promote and fully engage with all aspects of safe working practices in the workshop and on customer sites.

The experience you'll bring to the team.

• Time served plant engineer or similar, who has moved into workshop/service/maintenance management in heavy plant.
• In depth knowledge of how mobile plant assets operate and their mechanical, electrical and technical components, ideally within aggregates, minerals or construction.
• Proven experience managing a workshop or service operation delivering external repairs to customers.
• Track record of growing revenue and developing new business while maintaining safety, quality and on time delivery.
• Strong customer facing and commercial skills - confident scoping work, preparing quotes, managing variations and discussing options with quarry managers and senior stakeholders.
• Good IT skills, including experience with maintenance/quoting systems and MS Office for job control and KPI reporting.
• A collaborative approach, able to work closely with workshop, maintenance, operations and finance while driving your own objectives.

And this is what you'll get in return.

• Permanent role with an established and respectable employer, financially stable business in the heavy mobile plant sector.
• Salary in the region of £60,000-£65,000 plus company vehicle and benefits.
• The chance to take a workshop that's currently focused on internal work and be the person who turns it into a visible, profitable commercial offering.
• Exposure to a modern mixed OEM fleet and a variety of complex repair and overhaul projects.
• Direct access to senior decision makers and genuine input into process, standards and customer strategy.
• Long term career security in a business with deep, long standing customer relationships.