Workshop Manager Construction Machinery

A leader is sought who is part of the team and wants to understand and further develop everyday 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 time, 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 skills, organizational talent, and a 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, and the sensible use of employees, apprentices, and available resources
• Ensuring quality, punctuality, productivity, and cost control
• Expert support and advice for 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 shaping of future workflows 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 professionally organized workshop operations

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

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.
• Sound 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 field 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, together with the customer service management team, to help shape the further development of the location and the service organization.
• 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
• Flexitime 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 continue to be 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 take on a central role in a strong service team. Then freue j4id10446682jm j4it1043jm j4iy26jm