Workshop Manager

Our Engineering team at Rubix plays a vital role in solving complex challenges and delivering practical, innovative solutions that keep our customers moving. We bring together talented engineers from a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and disciplines — all united by a shared commitment to quality, safety, and continuous improvement. Whether working onsite or in our specialist facilities, we foster a collaborative, inclusive environment where every voice is valued, and diverse thinking drives better outcomes. By combining technical expertise with a deep understanding of our customers' needs, we engineer solutions that make a real difference to our clients.

About the Role

• Lead and supervise workshop engineers and technicians, overseeing the repair, maintenance, overhaul and refurbishment of industrial equipment, including pumps, motors, gearboxes and associated components.
• Ensure full compliance with RUBIX UK & Ireland HSEQ policies, procedures and engineering standards.
• Maintain a safe, organised and efficient workshop environment, ensuring risk assessments, toolbox talks and safe systems of work are implemented.
• Plan, coordinate and allocate workshop workloads, labour and resources to meet customer requirements, agreed deadlines and operational priorities.
• Oversee the end-to-end repair process, ensuring equipment is inspected, diagnosed, repaired, tested and returned to customers in line with required specifications.
• Monitor workshop productivity, job progress, turnaround times and quality of work, taking action to address delays or performance issues.
• Ensure accurate completion of job cards, inspection reports, repair documentation, test certificates and other relevant records.
• Support quotation preparation, job costing, budgeting and resource planning to maximise workshop efficiency and profitability.
• Manage workshop equipment, tools, materials and stock requirements, ensuring resources are available to support operational demands.
• Identify opportunities to improve workshop processes, reduce rework, increase productivity and enhance customer satisfaction.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal teams, suppliers and customers, providing updates on repair progress and completion timelines.
• Mentor, coach and develop workshop personnel, supporting technical training, performance management and succession planning.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives, workshop audits and quality assurance activities to maintain high engineering standards.
• Coordinate workload priorities and support operational flexibility, including overtime and shift working where required to meet customer commitments.

Key Skills, Experience & Requirements

• Proven experience managing or supervising an engineering workshop within an industrial, manufacturing, maintenance or repair environment.
• Strong technical knowledge of rotating equipment, including pumps, electric motors, gearboxes and associated industrial equipment.
• Experience planning and managing workshop workloads, labour allocation and resource utilisation.
• Strong understanding of HSEQ requirements, risk assessments and safe working practices.
• Experience managing repair quality, inspection processes, testing procedures and engineering documentation.
• Ability to monitor operational KPIs, manage costs and improve workshop productivity and profitability.
• Strong leadership skills, with experience coaching, motivating and developing engineering teams.
• Excellent organisational and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and tight deadlines.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with customers, suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Commercial awareness, including experience supporting quotations, job costing and cost control.
• Commitment to continuous improvement, quality standards and delivering excellent customer service.
• Good IT skills, including the use of workshop management systems, digital job cards and reporting tools.
• Relevant engineering qualification, apprenticeship or equivalent practical experience.
• Flexibility to support overtime and shift working when required to maintain operational performance.