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Workshop Manager

Salary Competitive
Location Rubix Industrial Services, Units D4 & D5, Adnac Park, Southampton SO16 0BT
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This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

The Vacancy

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.

The Company

Rubix UK has a commitment to doing things differently for our colleagues and customers.

Today, Rubix Group is the clear market leader with a presence in 23 markets and sales of €3.15bn in 2023. Our customers include some of the biggest names in manufacturing, the SMEs that form the backbone of industry and everything in-between.

More than a mover of boxes, we use our specialist knowledge and technical expertise to deliver products and services that keep production lines moving.

Right now, across Europe there are 9,000 of us and counting. We’ve disrupted and we have grown, but we’re not finished yet.

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