Job Description
Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead a team of mechanics to ensure efficient maintenance of trucks.
- He/She would be responsible for the general servicing, maintenance, and repair of the vehicles, investigating causes of breakdowns and taking corrective actions to forestall future occurrences.
- Coordinate the activities of the workshop on a day-to-day basis.
- Organize and supervise the servicing, maintenance and repair of the company’s trucks and ensure that the trucks are always in good working condition.
- Ensure thattrucks come to the workshop at the designated kilometres for servicing.
- Supervise the maintenance and repair of trucks.
- Ensure that trucksare maintained in a safe and reliable working condition in accordance with the planned preventive maintenance program and identify and rectify repetitive problems.
- Ensure that planning, scheduling, and unscheduled repairs are carried out efficiently and cost-effectively, with quality service.
- Oversees warranty obligations, inspection records, manual updates, equipment defect reports, maintenance reports, policies, procedures, and practices.
- Must have great technical knowledge of HOWO, IVECO, MACK and MAN DIESEL Trucks
- Supervise and follow up on the actual progress of each repair job.
- Follow up repair order, registering the time taken to complete each task.
- Responsible for the implementation of HSEQ standards within the workshop area.
- Conduct final check/test driving for all trucks before release.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
- 5 - 8 years progressive work experience as a Workshop Manager in a Trucking company.
- Outstanding organizational skills.
- Proven experience working with trucks and semi-literate mechanics.
- Must be able to develop and maintain best practices for workshop procedures.
- He/she must be computer literate with relevant workshop and vehicle maintenance procedures.
- Must have great knowledge of truck components and maintenance of such components.
- Able to handle conflict and resolve differences of opinion.