Why come and work with us?
WASHCO is a leading company who supply and distribute laundry equipment. We pride ourselves on high values, and our commitment to our staff and customers alike. We’re passionate about what we do and it’s important to us that we work responsibly; looking after our employees, supporting the communities we work in and minimising our impact on the environment. We support, develop and value our staff, giving them the opportunity to be the best they can be.

We feel hard work should be rewarded, that is why our employee benefits include:

• Employee Discount (after a qualifying period)
• Generous Maternity and Paternity.
• An enhanced company pension scheme (subject to eligibility criteria).
• Generous holiday allowance calculated at 6.6 times your weekly contracted hours.
• Training and Development programs including fully funded apprenticeship opportunities.
• Support for community projects.
• Wellbeing support provided by the Retail Trust which is free to use for all our employees.
• Healthshield Cash Plan
• Life Insurance.
• Discounted Gym membership.
• Recognition for Long Service.

We are excited to offer you an opportunity to join our team as a Workshop Engineer and Team Leader at our Newbury HQ.
As a member of our friendly and energetic team we are looking for an engaging personality to lead their team in ensuring that jobs and equipment modifications are completed accurately and to the required specification for timely delivery to our much valued customers.
We are looking for a person who can grow in their role and career with us through continued training and development.

What Does the Role Include?

• Undertaking a wide range of machinery modifications and conversions to meet with our customer requirements including but not limited to coin mechanism set up, conversion of heating variants and many more.
• Personal development, learning technical skills, and product knowledge.
• Supervising a small team of 2 technicians.
• Using technology to process and complete orders, daily tasks and machine programming.
• An introduction to working to and meeting personal and team targets.
• Using your own high standards to ensure all Health and Safety responsibilities are complied with.

What Skills and Experience Are Required?

• At WASHCO we believe in developing and training our team members. Our business has been built on customer service and staff development.
• You would ideally have experience with electromechanical work.
• A proactive person who offers the ability to make decisions and support his team.
• A capability to learn new skills is required and once trained the ability to work with minimum supervision.
• Flexibility when business needs and customer expectations change.
• The ability to use and understand various equipment for electrical testing (training is provided)

As a member of our friendly and energetic team, we are looking for an engaging personality to build rapport with colleagues, providing them with the best possible experience. You would be someone who shares our company values of Honesty, Respectfulness, Loyalty and Accountability.
When recruiting we always look for individuals who share our values and can add their personality. We encourage our teams to bring forward their ideas and help contribute to our business.
We are a company that values our staff and their work/life balance and therefore are happy to discuss flexible working opportunities to continue to gain specialist knowledge

• Undertaking a wide range of machinery modifications and conversions to meet with our customer requirements including but not limited to coin mechanism set up, conversion of heating variants and many more.
• Personal development, learning technical skills, and product knowledge.
• Supervising a small team of 2 technicians.
• Using technology to process and complete orders, daily tasks and machine programming.
• An introduction to working to and meeting personal and team targets.
• Using your own high standards to ensure all Health and Safety responsibilities are complied with