National Maintenance Manager - Quarry and Aggregates (Newport)

South Wales (HQ) with national travel Newport. Yolk Recruitment are exclusively supporting a leading heavy mobile plant business in the quarrying and aggregates sector to recruit a Commercial Workshop & Maintenance Manager. This is an excellent opportunity for an ex-plant engineer turned manager to take ownership of a busy workshop and build the commercial side of the business, developing a profitable external repair portfolio and bringing in new customers.

This is what you'll be doing:

• Lead the growth of the workshop's external repair portfolio, developing business with both existing and new customers.
• Own the commercial life-cycle of external jobs: enquiries, scoping, quoting, job costing, margin recovery and follow-up.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with quarry, aggregates and construction clients as the main point of contact for workshop-based repairs and overhauls.
• Drive visibility of workshop performance - utilisation, efficiency, recovery rate, WIP, lead times, first-time-fix and rework/returns - and deliver tangible improvements.
• Work closely with Finance and Maintenance to create clear cost/profit baselines and move the workshop towards full profit-centre operation.
• Standardise and improve processes around quoting, approvals, repair standards, documentation and sign-off to protect margin and improve customer experience.
• Support, coach and challenge the workshop team day-to-day, helping to raise standards and recruit new engineers into the department where required.
• Promote and fully engage with all aspects of safe working practices in the workshop and on customer sites.

The experience you'll bring to the team:

• You'll be a practical, commercially minded leader with a strong mobile plant background and credibility on the shop floor.
• Time-served plant engineer or similar, who has moved into workshop/service/maintenance management in heavy plant.
• In-depth knowledge of how mobile plant assets operate and their mechanical, electrical and technical components, ideally within aggregates, minerals or construction.
• Proven experience managing a workshop or service operation delivering external repairs to customers.
• Track record of growing revenue and developing new business while maintaining safety, quality and on-time delivery.
• Strong customer-facing and commercial skills - confident scoping work, preparing quotes, managing variations and discussing options with quarry managers and senior stakeholders.
• Good IT skills, including experience with maintenance/quoting systems and MS Office for job control and KPI reporting.
• A collaborative approach, able to work closely with workshop, maintenance, operations and finance while driving your own objectives.

And this is what you'll get in return:

• Permanent role with an established and respectable employer, financially stable business in the heavy mobile plant sector.
• Salary in the region of £60,000-£65,000 plus company vehicle and benefits.
• The chance to take a workshop that's currently focused on internal work and be the person who turns it into a visible, profitable commercial offering.
• Exposure to a modern mixed OEM fleet and a variety of complex repair and overhaul projects.
• Direct access to senior decision-makers and genuine input into process, standards and customer strategy.
• Long-term career security in a business with deep, long-standing customer relationships.

Are you up to the challenge? Are you what we're looking for? Please get in touch today with engineering specialist recruiter, Andy Jones. Please apply with a CV and feel free to include a cover letter outlining why you're perfect for the role. We also have a referral scheme, so if you know someone who would be great for the role, please get in touch.

Please note, whilst we do our best to contact all candidates, due to the high number of applications we receive we cannot guarantee this for every role. If you have not heard anything from us within 7 days of applying, then unfortunately you have been unsuccessful.