Head of Equipment Refurbishment

Our Business

Workdry International is a market-leading provider of engineered solutions for the handling and treatment of water and wastewater.

Our Selwood, Siltbuster, Vanderkamp and Holland Pump business combined form a UK, European and US leader in pumping solutions, on-site water treatment, wet waste processing and the prevention of waterborne pollution, delivering an unrivalled range of rapidly deployable solutions.

Workdry provides support to group companies through administration and back-office functions including finance, HR, training and development, and health and safety.

We are committed to excellence in solutions and services, staff training and development, sustainability and diversity, and provide an environment where every team member can thrive and progress to their full potential.

About The Role

The Workdry Group has seen enormous growth over recent years. Due to this we’re pleased to be recruiting for a Head of Equipment Refurbishment to lead and manage our Hixon Refurbishment Centre.

This is an exciting time to join us as we focus on ensuring we have the very best working environment and safety culture at Workdry.

This role would be perfect for an experienced Repair Centre, Manufacturing or Engineering/Manufacturing Manager. If you’re passionate about health & safety, with a forward-thinking vision for future opportunities, then this is the role for you!

As Head Of Equipment Refurbishment, You’ll Get To

• Drive continuous improvement in quality and efficiency gains, with full P&L responsibilities.
• Ensure we have a continued business focus on employee training, development, and wellbeing processes across all areas of the site operation.
• Ensure we continually improve our SHEQ standards, focusing on best practice and uniformed approach across the refurbishment network, promoting a SHEQ culture at the forefront of everything we do.
• Encourage and drive improvements, by taking a proactive, supportive, and flexible approach.
• Oversee the daily operations of the Equipment Refurbishment Centres, prioritising workloads and ensuring the teams consistently uphold the high standards expected form our operational group.
• Manage and monitor fleet CDA requirements and the second-hand sale of equipment for our Hixon location.
• Recruit, train, and motivate direct reports while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and professional growth within the team. Proactively identify development needs and implement tailored employee development plans, ensuring ongoing enhancement of management capabilities at all levels across the network.
• Identify skills gaps in the team and collaborate with HR and the Technical Team to develop and implement solutions to address these gaps.
• Ensure effective communication streams are set up and managed (both internally and externally).
• Working within your team to continually seek out opportunities for business change, identify and recommend new ways and innovative processes that will drive efficiency and make our business unit more profitable.
  
  

About You

We’re looking for someone who is ready for a challenge and enjoys working in a fast-paced, high-pressured environment, an individual who can see the benefit of identifying continual improvement, ideally with an engineering background.

The Personal Behaviours, Skills & Experience You Will Display

• Comprehensive understanding of manufacturing methodologies with a data driven process focused approach.
• Experience of managing and controlling budgets and P&Ls.
• Experience of successfully managing a team, being able to demonstrate strong leadership skills and the ability to develop, coach, motivate and engage a team.
• A leader with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to listen and offer sound feedback.
• Proven background in leading project delivery driving growth, maximising sales and profitability. Setting clear objectives aligned to goals, utilising modern platforms to interconnect all employees and departmental functions. Ensuring the customer experience maximises quality and service.
• Computer literate. Be able to analyse data on Microsoft Packages such as Project/Excel/Word/PowerPoint.
• Ability to be able to lead and mentor others to ensure all are working to the same high standard, developing viable project scopes and objectives.
• Good understanding of process requirements and the ability to identify strengths and weaknesses across the team and business processes.
• Compliant accurate record keeping is important to this role.
• Ability to act proactively / be forward thinking whilst maintaining a methodical, attention to detail approach.
• Flexibility to support the business to get the job done, understanding the requirements of all stakeholders while maintaining a safe environment for all.
• Experience of leading and demanding a Health & Safety culture, driving and creating an environment where good practices are a way of everyday life and total compliance is adhered to.
• Understanding of all SHEQ requirements to uphold high levels of safety for our super centres adhering to all safety legislation, ensuring staff and visitors are kept safe.
• A full UK driving licence due to the role requiring the successful applicant traveling to and from multiple locations.
• Ability and willingness to travel within the UK and Europe as and when necessary.
  
  

What we can offer you

• Competitive salary
• Company car
• Eligible for company bonus scheme (annual and quarterly payments)
• Medicash Scheme – medical expenses scheme (access to 24hour online GP services, discounted gym memberships)
• Pension scheme with contribution based on total earnings not just salary
• 25 days holiday + 8 Bank Holidays
• Increasing annual leave entitlement with long service
• 3x your annual salary life insurance (DIS)
• Support for development and training
• Employee assistance programme (EAP) & access to Mental Health first aiders
• Employee discount scheme (discounts/vouchers for supermarkets, high street shops, holidays and more)
• Employee referral scheme
  
  

This role is not open to Agencies - Please no calls or emails - Thank you.

EDI Statement

Workdry International Ltd is committed to encouraging equality, diversity, and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination.

We value transparency, respecting others and understanding differences. We give full and fair consideration to all applicants, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.

As part of your recruitment journey, we are happy to support requests for reasonable adjustments.