• Application Deadline:
• Position: Assistant Workshop Manager



• Job Type Full Time



• Qualification BA/BSc/HND



• Experience 5 years



• Location Akwa Ibom , Lagos




• Job Field Engineering / Technical 
  
  

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the activities of the workshop on a day-to-day basis. 


• Organize and supervise the servicing, maintenance and repair of the company’s fleet and ensure that the vehicles are always in good working conditions.


• Ensure prompt planning and implementation of preventive maintenance activities on schedule for all trucks. 


• Supervise the maintenance and repair of all the trucks and other technical support equipment to ensure that overhauls, preventative maintenance and repair are done in a cost-effective manner, with attention given to quality and longer duration of vehicles.


• Ensure that the vehicles are maintained in a safe and reliable working condition in accordance with planned preventive maintenance program and to identify and rectify repetitive problems.


• Ensure that planning, scheduling, and unscheduled repairs are carried out efficiently and cost-effectively, with quality service.


• Oversees the administrative requirements of the workshop, including warranty obligations, inspection records, manual updates, equipment defect reports, maintenance services, policies, procedures, and practices.


• Regularly report progress on each job


• Analyse maintenance costs and provide recommendations on fleet utilization and replacement.


• Track parts usage and maintain an accurate inventory of parts issued.


• Assist in the development of maintenance budget by providing input relative to policy, costs and established metrics.


• Ensure the maintenance records for fleet are accurate and up to date.


• Investigate and diagnose the causes of vehicle breakdown and accidents and apportion blames accordingly by ensuring that defaulters take financial responsibility of the cost of repairs.


• Ensure that the workshop is always functional and that vehicles awaiting repairs are attended to with dispatch.


• Supervise, schedules or assigns work to mechanics and other maintenance personnel.


• Tests vehicles to troubleshoot problems and/or tests repairs to ensure proper and safe completion.


• Raise requests for spare parts needed for maintenance activities and ensure that such parts requested are used for the purpose for which they are requested for.


• Recover to base all broken down vehicles or accidental trucks with dispatch.


• Ensure thorough pre and post trip inspection, pre and post maintenance inspection and all relevant inspections


• Ensure that the trucks are thoroughly checked, and bolt and nuts retightened on the arrival of the trucks.


• Coordinate the activities of mechanics including discipline.


• Ensure that all the tools and equipment in the workshop are accounted for always, functional and are being prudently used.


• Ensure adequate training of mechanics and all other workshop personnel on preventative maintenance and on methods for diagnosing and repairing vehicles and parts.


• Organize training in conjunction with the HR/Fleet unit for all the drivers especially on how to handle minor breakdowns.


• Prevent pilfering of the company’s tools and materials through thorough monitoring.


• Provide the procurement unit periodically with the list of parts that are frequently used for replacement to avoid stockouts.


• Assign vehicles for maintenance to a designated Mechanic(s) and take proper records in case the vehicles fail.


• Enforce compliance with the approved maintenance timelines through strict supervision to ensure vehicles do not exceed the required time at the workshop.


• Ensure the mobile maintenance team is always available when called upon; coordinate and assign rescues.


• Assist in procurement where necessary and advise on quality vehicle parts to be purchased.


• Advice the fleet team on the duration of each maintenance activity


• Prepare daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly maintenance reports.


• Any other duties related to or arising from the performance of what is listed above.


• Truck Maintenance Report (TMR)


• Preparation of monthly TMR


• Ensure that all details of every item used for each Truck, i.e., Item, Quantity, Price and other relevant details, are captured in the Report.


• Ensure details of Items paid for by cash must be properly captured in the TMR


• Ensure requisition details, Date, Requester, Quantity and Price for the store items are reflected in the TMR.


• Ensure the cost incurred in maintaining each and every truck for all reporting periods is captured in the TMR


• Prepare a monthly injector Repairs report. 


• Prepare monthly rescue reports


• Prepare a monthly tyre consumption report


• Present the quarterly report showing the Driver with the best care culture.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in mechanical engineering from a recognized tertiary institution.


• Minimum 5years of progressive working experience in a similar position


• Proven experience working with trucks and semi-literate mechanics.