Description:
The Opportunity
Join our team as Workshop Manager.
Bring your expertise, experience and drive to a successful growing company.
This is a new role created due to company growth. You will setup and run a new Fabrication & Coatings Workshop manufacturing our high-performance products.
Key aspects of this role are:
· Build Your A-Team: autonomy and assistance to build a high-performing team.
· Setup Workshop Properly: right budget, right equipment, right layout.
· Implement Right Processes: don’t inherit bad habits, setup new processes right.
· High-Performance Products: the best products for slurry transfer available.
· Successful Australian Manufacturer: join a winning team and take on the world.
· Strong Work Pipeline: strong growth in sales and production volume.
· Can-Do Team Culture: great culture, great team, performance-focus.
· Make Your Mark: build an operation you can be proud of and leave a legacy.
The Role
You will lead our Fabrication & Coatings Workshop. You will setup a new facility (3000-5000m2) to grow our manufacturing capabilities and capacity. This will be a modern workshop covering fabrication, coatings & linings for our high-performance products. You will recruit your A-Team including capable supervisors to run the workshop shop floor (40-50 people). You will setup new equipment and processes with the support of our manufacturing engineering team. You will be making our engineered high-performance products that are 100% made-to-order. We don’t do low-margin contract work for outsiders; we only make our own products.
Key responsibilities for this role include:
· Lead & manage team
· Safety & quality
· Deliver production targets
· Productivity and cost control
· Team resourcing
· Preventative maintenance
· Continuous improvement
· Solve problems & remove obstacles
You will be reporting to our highly capable and motivated Operations Director. You will be collaborating with other teams across our Brisbane facilities including production control, product engineering, and manufacturing engineering. This is an opportunity to setup a new workshop, with the right equipment and layout, with the right A-player team, and the right processes, from the start.
The Company
You will be joining a highly successful private business with a strong growth pathway.
Beaver Process Equipment specialises in the design and manufacture of slurry transfer technology for the mining industry. It currently has a team of 110 and is growing at a rate of 40 per year. It has two existing facilities: Perth (approx. 4200m2 office/workshop) and Brisbane (approx. 5100m2 office/workshop).
Our vision is to build a world-class company that is the global leader in slurry transfer technology.
Our current product range includes:
The Ideal Candidate
We are looking for a Workshop Manager with significant fabrication & coatings experience. You will be a strong leader that good people want to work for. You will like making decisions, taking the initiative, and taking ownership of the outcome. You will be hands-on and committed, with strong practical problem-solving skills. You will be hard working, dedicated, and set an example to your team. You will be the type of positive authentic leader who inspires your team to achieve great things. You will be a logical systems-thinker, who believes in building repeatable processes to achieve consistent high-quality results. You will like the opportunity to use your expertise and experience to ‘make your mark’ on a growing business.
The ideal candidate will have the following experience:
· Strong experience running fabrication workshops (min. 10+ years).
· Ideally – coatings and linings experience (blast, spray, casting).
· Ideally – pipe spool fabrication experience.
Why Join Us?
This is an outstanding opportunity.
This is an opportunity to bring your expertise, experience and drive to a successful growing Australian manufacturer and make a real difference.
How to Apply
Apply via the link with your resume and cover letter.
We take your cover letter seriously and would like you to explain:
1. Your motivation: why you want this specific role?
2. Your suitability: why you would be successful in this role?