Workshop Supervisor

Are you ready to lead and inspire? We are seeking a dedicated and dynamic individual to join our team as a Workshop Supervisor. This role is crucial to our operations, offering an exciting opportunity to drive excellence and innovation in a fast-paced environment. You will assist the Operations Manager by providing strong frontline leadership to Team Leaders in the workshop, ensuring all job requirements are in place to drive team performance, while maintaining a high focus on safety, quality, efficiency, and satisfying customer requirements.

What you’ll do:
- Operational Leader: Provide strong frontline leadership to the workshop staff, particularly working closely with the Team Leaders to ensure all requirements are in place to safely and productively complete workshop jobs to plan.- Safety Champion: Strive to build and maintain a zero-harm culture within the workplace by demonstrating a commitment to health and safety through observable behaviours and actions.- Collaborative Problem Solver: Work proactively with workshop staff and stakeholders (e.g., quality, engineering, purchasing) to resolve production and process issues.- Performance Monitor: Monitor, coordinate, and report on production activities, ensuring strong productivity and labour utilisation. Provide input into planning, scheduling, and resourcing requirements.- Continuous Improvement Advocate: Assist the Operations Manager to drive lean and continuous improvement initiatives to deliver operational improvements (e.g., 5S, visual management, Kaizen activities).- People Developer: Understand and drive operational requirements, set ambitious targets, and develop people to achieve the business objectives.

What we’re looking for:
- Experienced Leader: Team leadership, supervisory, or management experience in a mining or heavy industrial workshop/production environment.- Safety Expert: Strong knowledge of safe working practices and standards in a workshop environment.- Solutions-Focused Professional: Ability to meet deadlines and manage competing demands.

Why You’ll Love It Here:
- Supportive and Inclusive Culture: Join a team that values collaboration, respect, and diversity.- Career Development: We invest in your professional growth and create opportunities to advance your career.- Work-life Balance: We understand the importance of flexibility.- Health and Wellbeing: Access to health and wellness programs, including mental health support.- Leadership Support: Learn and connect with experienced professionals who are invested in your success.- Family-Friendly Policies: We offer paid parental leave, and other initiatives to support working parents.- Employee Benefit programs: including discounts program, salary sacrifice options and length of service recognition.

A place where we are all welcome:
Who can apply:
As part of our commitment to safety, we may require a national police check and other applicable security, medical, and character requirements for this position.

About Sandvik Rock Processing Solutions:
We are a leading provider of eco-efficient rock processing solutions. Leveraging more than 160 years of engineering excellence, we help our customers optimise their comminution and material handling operations for maximum performance, safety, and efficiency.

Employing around 3000 professionals worldwide, Sandvik Rock Processing Solutions is a business area of the global, high-tech engineering group Sandvik. In 2023 the Group had approximately 41,000 employees and revenues of about 127 billion SEK in 170 countries.

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