Stores & Engineering Manager

About us: Rainer Irrigation is a proud family-owned company based in the heart of New Zealand's agricultural hub - Mid Canterbury. Rainer has been providing irrigation and effluent solutions to farmers for over 34+ years and have a passion for the industry and our clients. With an innovative and well-resourced team, we offer turnkey solutions for all on-farm water reticulation requirements including power, pumps, pipe, and Pivots. 
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Stores & Engineering Manager to join our team. This critical role will oversee the management of stores, inventory, and engineering activities to ensure smooth operations and deliver excellence across our irrigation projects.
This position will manage 3-4 Stores employees and 7 Engineers along with an experienced Engineering foreman to help day to day activities in the workshop. The workshop is doing a variety of tasks, internal vehicle repairs, fabricating Roto Rainer parts for our service team and for selling componentry Point of sales front store to clients. This role is the service back bone for entire organization and the right candidate will be able to drive continuous improvement and have advanced understanding of H&S in both field and workshop-based environments.
Purpose: Management and motivation of Store & Engineering staff to maximize performance. Overview of the store and workshop and its day-to-day functions. Schedule jobs for the workshop to replenish stock sold to internal and external clients. Drive continuous improvement project to reduce wait time for parts and increase work flow productivity.