Service Manager
The purpose of your role as a Service Manager
As a service manager you will oversee a team of technicians and dispatchers who provide emergency service, preventative maintenance programs, retrofits, and upgrades for commercial and industrial customers. Responsible for redeeming operating unit gross profit objectives through leadership and management of staff while meeting contractual commitments to customers in a timely, high quality manner.
Cost Control / Maximizing Profit :
- Instruct, direct, and monitor staff in providing materials, directions, tools, and logistical support to the field in order to maximize output per labor hour. Motivate staff and maintain high employee morale. Instruct and direct appropriate personnel to properly staff jobs to control labor costs
- Instruct and direct staff to ensure cost effective and efficient use of equipment, tools, and materials while ensuring efficient field operations.
- Instruct, direct, and monitor staff in applying principles of cost / benefit to gain maximum utilization of company resources. Responsible for maintaining budget goals.
- Instruct and direct staff to close all completed jobs and expedite billing. Regularly monitor billings and take action to assure maximum cash flow.
- Ability to redeem planned gross profit through leadership and management of staff.
Document Review and Control :
Audit and validate service work orders and bookings documents prior to start of work.Train, direct, and evaluate staff in the proper, accurate, and timely completion of all paperwork. Assure compliance with company standards. Report progress and estimate deviations, and customer complaints in writing.Customer Focus :
Instruct and direct staff to promptly respond to customer trouble calls and complaints. Resolve problems quickly and efficiently while building and maintaining customer confidence and satisfaction.Instruct and direct staff to know the customer and understand market to support the sales team in effectively selling price escalations.Instruct and direct staff to support the sales team in prompt response to notices of cancellation and the development of well-preserved salvage plans.Participate in the CARE call process.Employee Relations and Development :
Delegate, organize work of others by position description and procedures; encourage mutual agreement on objectives. Effectively audit performance of staff and follow-up. Recommend appropriate personnel actions; i.e., hiring, firing, promotions, demotions, compensation, etc.Motivate and train staff. Develop and implement programs to improve skills of staff as individuals as well as a group. Assure technical capabilities for field team is consistent with current contractual commitments and market strategy.Promote professionalism and pride in order to attract high-caliber talent. Continually build and maintain a network of contacts. Create a Central Candidate / Source file of potential recruits and sources.Build rapport and productive working relationships with managers, supervisors, staff, field, and other personnel to influence decisions for purchasing, scheduling, instal Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.