Workshop management Advisor (60%) & Intersectional Workshop Manager (40%) X/ H/F job at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Position description

Job title

Workshop management Advisor (60%) & Intersectional Workshop Manager (40%) X/ H/F

Field based :

Kampala, Uganda

Start date :

1st of July 2026

Job description

• Provide technical support to field operations through remote guidance and field visits, ensuring effective decision-making and context-adapted solutions.
• Advise programs on technical strategy, planning, and resource setup, including validation of suppliers, equipment, and processes.
• Lead SUKA workshop strategy and operations, ensuring efficient, safe, and timely maintenance of vehicles and motorized equipment.
• Supervise workshop performance, staff, and spare parts management to ensure service continuity and cost-effective operations.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams (logistics, supply, medical) to ensure integrated and efficient operational support.
• Contribute to technical standards, innovation, and sustainable practices within the domain.
• Strengthen staff capacity through training, recruitment support, and development of technical competencies.

Responsibilities

This position provides technical expertise to support operational decision-making across field missions, through risk analysis and the development of context-adapted solutions. It contributes to the strengthening of technical standards, best practices, and innovation within the domain, in line with organizational and environmental objectives. The role also ensures the effective management of SUKA’s intersectional workshop, including resources, workflows, and service delivery, while supporting the development of technical capacities and specialist networks. Overall, it reinforces SUKA’s role as a key provider of expertise and a driver of operational support, learning, and innovation.

Your profile

Essential

• Fluent in French & English
• Master or Bachelor degree and Specialization on area of in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Technology or related technical discipline
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in workshop management, preferably in humanitarian or international fleet management settings
• Dynamic, organized, rigorous, with strong analytical and synthesis skills while respecting existing structures and their evolution.
• Spare parts management, budgeting, and workshop planning
• Leading multicultural teams, training programs, and technical capacity building.
• Expertise in diagnosing, repairing, and maintaining 4x4 vehicles (notably Toyota Land Cruiser), generators, and mechanical equipment.
• Ability to collaborate, strong interpersonal skills, sense of dialogue, and good listening skills.
• Ability to communicate at different levels and maintain a global vision of the project.
• MSF Management Values: Inclusion, Integrity, Collaboration, Accountability, Respect, Empowerment
• Excellent ability to work in a multicultural environment successfully and to demonstrate commitment and support for diversity, gender-responsive, inclusive, and non-discriminatory behaviour and attitudes.
• Leadership and team management skills: ability to build and develop diverse and inclusive teams

Considered as assets

• Field MSF experience (as Workshop Manager / Flying Workshop / Referent Workshop)

• Provide technical support to field operations through remote guidance and field visits, ensuring effective decision-making and context-adapted solutions.
• Advise programs on technical strategy, planning, and resource setup, including validation of suppliers, equipment, and processes.
• Lead SUKA workshop strategy and operations, ensuring efficient, safe, and timely maintenance of vehicles and motorized equipment.
• Supervise workshop performance, staff, and spare parts management to ensure service continuity and cost-effective operations.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams (logistics, supply, medical) to ensure integrated and efficient operational support.
• Contribute to technical standards, innovation, and sustainable practices within the domain.
• Strengthen staff capacity through training, recruitment support, and development of technical competencies.
• This position provides technical expertise to support operational decision-making across field missions, through risk analysis and the development of context-adapted solutions.
• It contributes to the strengthening of technical standards, best practices, and innovation within the domain, in line with organizational and environmental objectives.
• The role also ensures the effective management of SUKA’s intersectional workshop, including resources, workflows, and service delivery, while supporting the development of technical capacities and specialist networks.
• Overall, it reinforces SUKA’s role as a key provider of expertise and a driver of operational support, learning, and innovation.

• Spare parts management
• Budgeting
• Workshop planning
• Leading multicultural teams
• Training programs
• Technical capacity building
• Diagnosing vehicles
• Repairing vehicles
• Maintaining vehicles
• Diagnosing generators
• Repairing generators
• Maintaining generators
• Diagnosing mechanical equipment
• Repairing mechanical equipment
• Maintaining mechanical equipment
• Collaboration
• Interpersonal skills
• Dialogue
• Listening skills
• Communication at different levels
• Global vision of the project
• Leadership
• Team management
• Building diverse and inclusive teams
• Developing diverse and inclusive teams

• Master or Bachelor degree and Specialization on area of in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Technology or related technical discipline
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in workshop management, preferably in humanitarian or international fleet management settings
• Dynamic, organized, rigorous, with strong analytical and synthesis skills while respecting existing structures and their evolution.
• MSF Management Values: Inclusion, Integrity, Collaboration, Accountability, Respect, Empowerment
• Excellent ability to work in a multicultural environment successfully and to demonstrate commitment and support for diversity, gender-responsive, inclusive, and non-discriminatory behaviour and attitudes.
• Field MSF experience (as Workshop Manager / Flying Workshop / Referent Workshop)