Job Title: Horticultural Maintenance Manager – £30K + Van
Location of the Job: North West, UK
Job Ref: 13636KM
The Company: Our client is one of the UK's leading horticultural businesses. They are growers and wholesalers of bedding and ornamental plants.
The Industry: Horticultural Job, Horticultural Industry Job, Horticultural Maintenance Job, Horticultural Engineering.
Key Responsibilities and Job Role Details:
Overseeing the planning and implementation of schedules of work and all reactive maintenance across the business including all aspect of glasshouse, vehicle, crop protection and associated production equipment maintenance.
Responsible for ensuring control of all maintenance budgets to annual target in conjunction with the Operations manager.
Supervising and motivating a team of around 6 workers.
Installation of new horticultural equipment.
Reviewing worker performance.
Identifying training needs.
Ensure periodic and preventative maintenance schedules are appropriately scheduled and accomplished.
Ensure emergency troubleshooting/maintenance support are readily available as needed.
Liaise with Production and plan to schedule plant/equipment maintenance, having regard to customer satisfaction and statutory and regulatory timings.
Identify improvement opportunities, and progress with the teams and line management, including the development of the preventative maintenance program.
Responsibility to comply with all Company rules for health and safety and to co-operate with the Company to ensure that all statutory duties are undertaken in line with appropriate legislation.
Managing maintenance goal setting, activity scheduling and work allocation to ensure measurable goals, balanced workload distribution and effective staff management.
Monitoring and continually improving maintenance processes and maintenance personnel performance to achieve best in class levels of efficiency.
Any other duty deemed suitable by your line manager.
Ideal Person Skills and Qualifications:
Leadership
Workflow/Planning and Scheduling
Maintenance
Time Management
Organisational
Attention to detail
Decision-making
Excellent Communication skills
Influencing and leading
Delegation
Teamwork
Strong assertive person
Hands on
Salary package:
£30k Basic Salary
Plus Benefits; Company Pension and use of a company work van.
How to apply: Please send your CV and cover letter to; Kate@AgriFJ.co.uk
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