Workshop Manager at Riders for Health

Riders for Health is an international not-for-profit NGO working to improve the capacity and efficiency of health care delivery platforms in Africa. Our vision is a world in which health care reaches everyone, everywhere. Our mission is to make the ‘last mile’ the most important mile in health care delivery: creating, showing and sharing the solutions for achieving truly equitable health care.
RFH is recruiting to fill the following vacancies nationwide:

Job Title: Workshop Manager

Location: Abuja

Role Description:
The successful candidate works under the direct supervision of the Operations Manager. The Workshop Manager is responsible for managing the vehicle management unit, overseeing all technical work, the supply chain of replacement parts, local marketing as well as the overall administration and financial management of the unit.

Responsibilities:

• Manage, organize and control an efficient mechanical engineering workshop including
• the management of Technicians and Graded Workers
• Manage, plan, control and organize the planned preventative and corrective mechanical maintenance on all clients’ fleet and other equipment in order to maximize their lifespan and ensure safety.
• Allocate work on a daily basis to the technicians, monitoring progress and inspecting completed work to ensure the required standards are achieved.
• Manage unplanned work resulting from breakdown and emergencies, making sure they are dealt with in efficient manner by prioritizing.

Qualifications:

• He/ She must possess a first degree (BSc/HND) in Mechanical Engineering.
• Must possess minimum of Five years post NYSC working experience.
• Must possess good knowledge of microsoft office especially excel.
• Good workshop supervisory or management experience is essential

Application Closing Date
28th March, 2014

Method of Application
Interested candidates should forward their CVs and application in word format using the position applied for as the subject of the email to: [email protected]