At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage the service department, ensuring top-notch operational and customer service standards.
- Company: Speedy, the UK's leading hire provider with a focus on work/life balance.
- Benefits: 26 days holiday, life assurance, pension scheme, and discounts across the Speedy brand.
- Other info: Flexible working arrangements and excellent career progression opportunities available.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team and make a real impact in a supportive environment.
- Qualifications: Experience managing a workshop team and strong engineering background preferred.
The predicted salary is between 30000 - 40000 £ per year.
Stockton - Monday to Friday - 08:00-16:30 - 42 hours per week. Flexible hours available, including job shares/amended hours. Offering a work/life balance is of great importance to Speedy!
Speedy are the UK’s leading hire provider with the widest range of tools, specialist hire equipment, plant and support services for every job! A fabulous opportunity has arisen for a Service Manager to manage all aspects of the service department in a proactive and effective manner.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Ensuring excellent operational and customer service standards at all times
- Health and safety compliance
- Overall management of the workshop team
What you’ll need:
- Proven experience of managing a workshop team, ideally within the hire industry or similar
- Strong engineering background, ideally with experience of working on generators or compressors
- Good level of computer literacy and able to use a wide range of software, including Microsoft Office programs
- Ability to effectively prioritise workload and work under pressure and to strict deadlines
- Ability to support your business unit/team to deliver our ESG Strategy Decade to Deliver
- Excellent understanding/experience of managing health and safety practices at work
- Full driving licence is preferred
- IOSH qualified
What we offer:
- 26 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Life assurance
- Pension Scheme
- Canteen facilities
- 95% discount across the Speedy brand
- Opportunities for training, development and career progression
- Voluntary Health Cash Plan
- My Staff Shop: discounts and offers for shopping across many suppliers
- Green Commute Initiative: Work scheme for cycling
- PAM Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Offers free and confidential support and counselling for wellbeing, divorce, legal, and financial management
Speedy operates an industry-leading Work Life Balance initiative, demonstrating our commitment to reducing core contracted hours, supporting colleague wellbeing, and identifying more balanced work patterns for our colleagues. Talk to us about a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements to suit your needs, including flexible start/finish times, shorter days, term time hours, and job share opportunities.
Speedy offer a Career Line of Sight which enables a detailed understanding of the route to progression and growth within the Speedy Group.
Please be aware Speedy reserves the right to close our vacancies earlier than the listed date if we have received a high level of applications. We would recommend that if you wish to be considered, you complete the application as promptly as possible.
Service Manager in Northumberland employer: Speedy Hire
Speedy Hire in St Helens is an excellent employer, offering a hybrid working model that promotes a sustainable work-life balance with a unique 9-day fortnight schedule. Our supportive team is dedicated to delivering exceptional candidate experiences while providing ample opportunities for career growth in a collaborative environment. Join us to be part of a company that values its people and fosters a culture of development and satisfaction.
