Are you looking for your next challenge in the Civil Construction industry, and want to be a part of the Prestige way?
With nearly 20 years’ experience, Prestige Civil Group is a diverse, full-service Civil Construction organisation providing services all across Melbourne, priding ourselves on quality, accuracy, and growth.
Our core values are Safety, Openness, Fairness, Resilience, Respect, and Integrity. Our core behaviours are centred around teamwork, driving results, and continuous improvement. These values and behaviours support our vision for growth and success, and allow us to support and develop our team from the bottom up.
We have a strong company culture which is strengthened by our values and behaviours. We strongly encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and Indigenous Australians.
Due to growing demands, we have just created a new role for an experienced Workshop Manager within our Fleet & Mechanics department. This is a full-time salaried role, in the convenience and quiet location of Kilsyth South.
Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
* Be responsible for the Workshop and all Mechanic and related services for Fleet & Plant in the business.
* Set high standards with mechanics on workshop cleanliness, stock levels, and operation activities to ensure high quality with continual improvement and safe practices at the forefront.
* Culturally improve the safety standards of mechanics and operators by ensuring SOPs are in place for all relevant items within the workshop and the mobile workshops/offsite with control and training where required.
* Oversee material purchases, finding efficiencies and cost savings for overall fleet and plant, including travel time and duration of materials in stock at the workshop to reduce downtime for operations.
* Manage key stakeholders within operations, understanding their costs and productivity losses (e.g., downtime consequences) while managing priorities categorized by risk.
* Ensure preventative maintenance is in place for all vehicles and plant, including vehicles that are roadworthy, serviced, and maintained before due, with defects and risk items prioritized correctly.
* Manage all calls, queries, defects, urgent work, and schedule all work for plant and fleet within our systems.
* Ensure time allocation for all work/jobs is recorded against plant numbers for effective full plant cost management.
* Support the business in reporting key data and maintaining the integrity of data relating to plant costs and savings initiatives where possible.
* Manage mechanical and plant support for day and night shift operations within the business by appropriate planning for coverage.
The ideal candidate will possess:
* Minimum 5 years experience scheduling mechanics for work, overseeing part ordering in a similar related business, and using fleet/work systems for tracking mechanics and fleet costs.
* Minimum 3 years experience in driving and leading people.
* Minimum 4 years experience maintaining fleet including service, repair, maintenance, record keeping, and costing labour and materials.
* Experience with construction machines is highly regarded and preferred (Earthmoving, Mining, Civil).
* Experience with Concrete, Asphalt/Civil Construction is highly regarded and preferred.
* Red or White Construction Card.
* Excellent customer service skills, proven in on-time delivery with quality standards being met, minimizing downtime for customers while managing extensive calls and directing queries.
* Good communication skills – verbal, listening, and writing, with the ability to clearly direct and guide employees, customers, and manage stakeholders.
* Responsiveness and the ability to adapt to varying situations.
* Growth mindset for both self and others.
* Valid Driver's Licence – HR Preferred.
* Plant Tickets Preferred (not essential).
* Diesel Mechanic or similar technical knowledge/experience beneficial but not essential.
* Good MS Suite Skills with advanced Excel.
* Good system knowledge and navigation skills including Finance Systems, Fleet/Asset Systems, Tracking including GPS, Dash Cam, and more.
* Team Player – working with Mechanics, Fleet Manager, Operational/Department Managers/Supervisors, SHEQ Compliance, P&C, Finance, and Drivers and Operators.
* NHVR and COR extensive knowledge driving this within the full mechanical team.
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