The Workshop Supervisor compiles, classifies, and monitors the workshop service with regards to maintenance and disruptions to vehicles and installations. They advise management and inform team members regarding operational decision making. The Workshop Supervisor ensures quality of service by demonstrating strong leadership skills, promoting company values, and ensuring stakeholder safety. They spend approximately two-thirds of their time actively performing maintenance and repair tasks, while the remaining time is dedicated to safety culture roll-out, team supervision, and workshop organization.

Responsibilities

• Coaching and leading the team by taking end-responsibility for quality, efficiency, safety, and resources within the unit.
• Motivating team members and fostering teamwork.
• Implementing TCR processes and procedures using SAP to manage resource and manpower allocation in coordination with management.
• Ensuring correct stock management by determining and ordering available and needed resources such as spare parts and office supplies.
• Providing insights to management regarding planning feasibility and advising on possible solutions and bottlenecks.
• Identifying and visualizing planned maintenance and outstanding problems using available systems.
• Tracking progress of work packages and monitoring standard times, bottlenecks, backlog, and feasibility.
• Assisting team members in processing and making production figures and quality data visible to operations.
• Creating, checking, evaluating, and signing inspection lists.
• Implementing contingency procedures.
• Instructing team members in maintenance and malfunctions to ensure safe maintenance of vehicles and equipment.
• Facilitating knowledge transfer for professional development of team members.
• Participating in regular consultations for coordinating and evaluating activities with departments such as customers, suppliers, and internal departments.
• Advising customers regarding the availability of vehicles and equipment.
• Contributing to the professional knowledge to set up quality measurements in consultation with management.
• Proposing improvements such as adjusting procedures and creating new work agreements.
• Investigating and suggesting technical improvements to equipment to reduce costs and increase availability for customers.
• Performing tasks specific to technicians, including associated responsibilities and authorities.
• Taking end-responsibility for workshop administration within the unit, including work orders, invoicing preparation, and time control.
• Demonstrating active safety leadership by driving the safety culture and implementing initiatives to continuously improve safety performance and OHS management system.

• 3-5 years of hands-on GSE or diesel technician experience
• 3-5 years of supervision experience
• ERP system experience

• GSE management
• Mechanic
• Shop management
• GSE supervisor experience

This is a contract-hire position with the potential for direct hire. There are significant opportunities for growth, including potential advancement to regional management. The company has a strong support system and growth opportunities in the US. Employees are encouraged to embody company values of passion, integrity, accountability, and open-mindedness. Benefits include 11 paid holidays once direct, good PTO, a 401k with a 3.5 match, and health, dental, and vision insurance.

Work Environment

The work environment consists of a small shop with a team of 6-7 technicians, with plans to expand staff once this candidate is hired. The shop is in the process of getting a new facility.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Franklin Park, Illinois.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $35.00 - $40.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Chicago,IL.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Mar 25, 2025.

We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.

Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.