NES Fircroft are currently recruiting for a Workshop Team Leader for our client, who are a global, industry leader in Power Technology.

Workshop Team Leader
Contract position
12-month duration
Aberdeen

A Snapshot of Your Day
Reporting to the Operations Manager, the Workshop Team leader is responsible for confidently managing a team of workshop employees to execute repair work on customers rotating machinery and equipment within the Aberdeen Service Centre. Effectively managing time, cost and quality objectives of repair activities & ensuring that all workshop employees observe health, safety and environmental rules and procedures.

How You'll Make an Impact
Manage a team of workshop employees to produce comprehensive inspection information, checklists, drawings and reports that are returned to the Principal Engineers. These reports include inspection findings, recommendations, parts required for rebuild, and dimensional checks as found.
• Effectively allocate workshop resources to repair activity to optimise resources on each project.
• Mitigate non-productive time, through allocation of workshop resources onto other activity, including Field Service activity, training etc.
• Manage the performance of workshop employees through effective coaching, communication, monthly one to one's.
• Ensure that workshop employees follow the Aberdeen Service Centre Quality Management System.
• Support the development and training of workshop employees to ensure all skills requirements are in place and employees are retained.
• Manage effective systems to control time, cost and quality objectives of each repair project within the workshop.
• Identify and raise warnings for when time, cost and quality objectives are at risk
• Ensure that all workshop tooling, equipment and machinery is fit for purpose, safe and available for workshop activity
• Assist workshop, technical and project management staff to troubleshoot and identify problems on rotating equipment by determining the root cause problem.

What You Bring
• Supervisory experience working in a repair service centre / workshop.
• Strong Team Leader with excellent communication skills.
• Technical aptitude and comprehensive knowledge of rotating equipment, hand tools & all types of measuring tools (e.g. micrometers, calipers, etc.).
• Experience of engineering machining activity, including milling machines, centre lathes, grinding, drilling machines, tool and die making
• Workshop Planning Experience is preferred.
• Strong IT Skills
• Flexibility and Responsiveness.
• Knowledge of Quality Management Systems
• Knowledge of HR processes and requirements

With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients