Workshop Supervisor

• Company: Plumpton College
• Closing Date: 04-11-2025
• Location: Plumpton, Lewes
• Salary: Up to £29,700
• Hours: Full time - 37.5h per week
• Benefits: See below
• How to Apply: To apply for this role, please complete the Plumpton College application form and equal opportunities monitoring form and submit them by email to recruitment@plumpton.ac.uk

Description

Role: Workshop Supervisor 

Salary: Up to £29,700

Working Hours: full-time, 37.5h per week 

Contract: Permanent

This year Plumpton College is welcoming more students than ever. As a result of launching new programmes in our motor vehicle, metalsmithing and agricultural machinery division, we are now recruiting a Workshop Supervisor. Reporting to the Workshop Manager and working with two Workshop Technicians, you will be part of a team that provides crucial technical resources and support to our teaching teams and students.

The Workshop Team is responsible for the safe operation of our engineering workshops and forge. The team ensures that workspaces are prepared for lessons, technical resources are ordered and available from well-organised stores, undertakes maintenance and repairs to ensure workshops, machinery and equipment are operational, and provides technical support to cross-college teams. The team also interacts with and supports students and a range of staff from across the college throughout the college day.

 

The Workshop Supervisor will take responsibility for:

• Ensuring our agricultural engineering workshops, machinery and engineering equipment are operational
• Preparing technical resources in advance of lessons, as requested by Lecturers
• Stock ordering
• COSHH compliance
• Health and safety compliance
• Day to day supervision of workshop technicians
• Repairing machinery, equipment and vehicles as required

 

The ideal candidate will demonstrate:

• Solid engineering and technical skills and experience
• A practical working knowledge of a wide range of machinery and equipment. 
• Commitment to safe working practices
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Commitment to providing a high-quality teaching environment for our students
• Strong interpersonal skills, able to build positive working relationships with staff and students

A flexible and supportive approach, able to solve problems and respond to the changing requirements of the different workshops throughout the day

• Strong organisational and IT skills

For more detail and information regarding the requirements of the role, please review the job description. 

We are a highly skilled, supportive and committed team and this is an important role which will be integral to our continued support for student achievement and progression.

Why Join Us?

At Plumpton College, we live our values—Ambitious, Professional, Enterprising, Passionate, Supportive—in everything we do 

We offer a competitive salary alongside a generous benefits package, including 26 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata), and up to 5 efficiency days at Christmas. Staff are enrolled in the Local Government Pension Scheme and have access to comprehensive CPD opportunities and in-house teacher training where applicable. As a Disability Confident Committed employer and a signatory of the Menopause Pledge, we are proud to foster an inclusive and supportive workplace. 

 New colleagues benefit from a structured induction and a supported six-month probationary period, as well as a strong coaching culture with in-house L5 trained coaches.  

Employees also enjoy a range of lifestyle and wellbeing benefits such as eligibility for a TOTUM card and Blue Light Card, free eye tests, free use of our onsite gym, cycle-to-work scheme, discounted Plumpton wine and courses, free onsite parking, and an Employee Assistance Programme.  

Our commitment to staff wellbeing and community is further demonstrated through regular networking events, active EDI and Sustainability committees and social events at Christmas 

📩 Apply today – we may close early if we receive strong applications! 

If you would like any information available in a more accessible format, please email recruitment@plumpton.ac.uk  

We reserve the right to call candidates to interview/withdraw this vacancy at any time if there is a good level of response. Therefore, we recommend you submit your application as soon as possible. 

We are unable to offer Visa sponsorship at this time.  

Plumpton College is committed to the promotion of equal opportunities and is dedicated to pursuing non-discriminatory policies and practices and eliminating unfair discrimination on any basis. 

Plumpton is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of learners and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.