Workshop Manager Construction Machinery

A leader is sought who is part of the team and wants to understand and further develop daily workshop operations. You don't just know heavy machines from theory and enjoy taking responsibility for people, quality, and deadlines?

In this key position, you will lead the workshop team and ensure that repairs, maintenance, and machine deployments are carried out efficiently, on schedule, and with high quality.

Your contribution:

You lead the mechanics and apprentices technically and personally and are the central contact person for all workshop matters. In doing so, you combine technical know-how with leadership competence, organizational talent, and strong customer orientation.

• Technical and organizational leadership as well as further development of the workshop team and the apprentices (total of nearly 20 people)
• Planning and controlling workshop utilization, prioritizing orders, as well as sensible deployment of employees, apprentices, and available resources
• Ensuring quality, punctuality, productivity, and cost control
• Expert support and advice to customers regarding technical questions
• Coordination and optimization of repairs, maintenance, and machine deployments
• Preparation and discussion of repair and service offers
• Close cooperation with customer service, service, technology, training, administration, and sales, as well as active participation in shaping future processes and responsibilities within the workshop organization
• Control of workshop orders regarding content, quality, and cost specifications
• Continuous optimization of workflows and processes
• Ensuring occupational safety as well as compliance with internal quality and manufacturer specifications
• Responsibility for order, cleanliness, and a professionally organized workshop operation

The function thus combines operational workshop management, technical customer advice, and the continuous improvement of internal processes.

What you bring with you:

• Completed basic technical training, for example as a construction machinery, agricultural machinery, or commercial vehicle mechanic EFZ; comparable technical profiles, such as polymechanics with a focus on assembly and proven experience with heavy machines, are also welcome.
• Profound knowledge in diagnosis, repair, and maintenance of technically demanding machines
• Experience in workshop management, as a team leader or in a comparable leadership function. Someone is sought who shows presence, provides orientation, and is perceived as part of the team.
• Further training in the technical or business administration area is an advantage
• Joy in the leadership, promotion, and further development of employees and apprentices
• Strong sense of responsibility and organizational talent
• Structured, independent, and solution-oriented way of working
• High quality and customer orientation
• Communicative and down-to-earth personality with joy in direct exchange with customers and employees
• Willingness to take responsibility and actively further develop processes

What awaits you

• A responsible key position with leadership responsibility in an established Swiss company
• The opportunity to help shape the further development of the location and the service organization together with the customer service management team.
• A well-coordinated workshop team with mechanics and apprentices
• A versatile machine park from large construction machinery to handling machines to processing and special machines
• Modern and innovative company structures with short decision-making paths
• A collegial, uncomplicated corporate culture with flat hierarchies
• Individual induction program and support from an experienced team
• Regular training and further education for professional and personal development
• Contemporary employment conditions and flexible working models
• Flextime model as well as possibilities for additional vacation days
• Provision and cleaning of work clothing
• Centrally located workplace in the Thun region with free parking spaces and good public transport connections
• Long-term perspective in a stable and internationally networked technical environment

Do you want to remain close to large machines and technology, but at the same time take on more responsibility for people, planning, and the success of a workshop? Then this function offers you the opportunity to take the next step and assume a central role in a strong service team. Then freue j4id10425035a j4it1041a j4iy26a