Salary: up to £45,000 OTE, with a great bonus and excellent benefits

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Workshop Controller / Workshop Supervisor / Workshop Manager to join the UK’s leading Accident and Collision Repair specialist in our increasingly busy site in Ipswich.

The workshop in Ipswich completes on average 100 repairs a month and you’ll manage a great team of 8 Technicians.  As a busy site, we ensure you are supported by the team in the office working face-to-face with customers to let you focus on what you’re great at. Most of our work in is for our insurance partners and supporting our Northgate Vehicle Hire sister company with their LCV fleet.

In the job of Workshop Manager you will be undertaking the following duties: 

• Organise the bodyshop by controlling the status of each job, conducting daily progress meetings with bodyshop team members and reporting unexpected delays to the General Manager 
• Make sure all the bodyshop tools and equipment are in good working order, control waste materials and utilities whilst having overall responsibility for the security of the building and the equipment 
• Ensure all job cards are completed corrected correctly and be ultimately responsible for shop floor procedures 
• To liaise with all bodyshop Technicians and the Manager in respect of any quality issues  

Key to your success is your ability to produce work that complies with the highest technical and quality standards and, above all, helps us deliver on our service commitment to customers. 

About you

• Ideally you are qualified to NVQ level 3/City & Guilds with a solid Bodyshop background – as a Bodyshop Controller, Workshop Manager or Quality Controller within a Car Dealership, Body Repairer or Crash Repair Centre, whether the job at hand is routine or more complex, you will know just how to solve it. 
• You come from a fast-paced background – you know how to work in a standard job time structure with a focus on producing compliant, high-quality work.
• You will have a full UK/EU Driving Licence
• You get involved in every part of our business – you take pride being part of the FMG Repair Services team and are keen to help colleagues with a hands-on, can-do approach to getting things done.
• You take pride in providing a great customer experience each day - you understand what is important to your customers and suppliers.

Why choose FMG RS:

Of course, we offer a fantastic basic salary, but there’s much more to being a Workshop Manager at FMG RS than just that. Some of our most popular benefits include (but aren’t limited to) …

• fantastic bonus schemes
• free life assurance
• well-being services (incl. Health Cash Plan, Dental Plan & Travel Insurance)
• discounted, flexible Gym memberships
• exclusive employee vehicle-leasing schemes 
• pension & save-as-you-earn share scheme 
• Our Benefits App offering unlimited access to a huge range of retailer discounts and cashback deals (incl. Tesco, Asda, Currys, B&Q & Wickes to name just a few)
• We've recently launched Wagestream for all our colleagues - a Financial Wellbeing app that gives you more control over your pay. Not only does it let you choose when to get paid it also lets you put money aside each month and in addition you can get discounts on your shopping, check what benefits you're eligible for and can even put you in touch with a financial coach! 

We’re going places …

•    We’re a key part of one of the UK’s largest Automotive PLCs, Redde Northgate – few other businesses can offer you the volume, variety and long-term security as us;
•    We invest in you – We believe everyone should have the opportunity to better themselves and look to progress, not just within FMG RS but the wider Redde Northgate Group;
•    We’re growing – it’s an exciting time for the industry and we’re committed to being at the cutting edge, investing in everything from our EV capabilities, our workshops to our Training Centres;

Join the FMG RS family

With the best people in the industry within our Group, we really believe that no one else can do what we do as well as us.  So what are you waiting for?  

Apply Today!