Service Manager

The Service Manager’s primary responsibility will be to manage and lead all service functions to ensure timely, accurate service and repair to the rental and delivery fleet. Responsible for shop and field service mechanics, including, driving service initiatives, shop metric goals, hiring, shift scheduling, parts flow, and guiding all activities of the shop team.

Job Duties:

• Manage the shop and field service mechanics, ensuring maintenance, repair, and availability of equipment as needed
• Develop both strategic and tactical plans to achieve established goals effectively
• Establish a partnership with Sales and Operations teams to coordinate realistic timelines to fulfill rental contract obligations to achieve success on commitments.
• Lead continuous improvement efforts across all service performance metrics
• Guide the team in meeting performance, productivity, and efficiency standards
• Establish clear responsibilities and streamlined processes for monitoring work and assessing outcomes
• Ensuring that all shop activities comply with relevant safety regulations and standards. This includes providing safety training to staff, implementing safety protocols, and maintaining a safe work environment
• Delegate and direct service tasks to technicians while monitoring progress
• Exhibit engaged leadership through behavioral coaching and mentorship
• Conduct interviews to identify and select top talent through assessment of candidates’ skills, experience, and alignment with operational requirements
• Conduct performance evaluations and provide immediate coaching and guidance for performance enhancement
• Oversee productivity and manage scheduling of team members to optimize efficiency, analyze metrics to identify improvement opportunities and recommend viable solutions
• Conduct audits of records to ensure accuracy and quality standards in equipment maintenance and repair including field service paperwork and work orders

Preferred Skills:

• Minimum 2 years’ experience leading others, either formally or informally
• 3-5 years of management level experience in shop and service management, within the construction equipment rental industry is preferred.
• Previous service/maintenance experience preferred
• Strong leadership, organizational, and time management skills, with the ability to work independently.
• Strong communication skills to include active listening and assimilating information; to facilitate clear leadership communication to motivate and guide others 
• Consistently adhere to safety policies, procedures, and guidelines
• Demonstrate a strategic mindset in developing short-term and long-term plans to optimize results
• Safe working knowledge of shop tools and equipment
• Adaptability to thrive in a fast-paced, continuously improving environment within a growing company

At our company, every employee is valued, respected, and fairly compensated. More importantly, every employee has a voice that deserves to be heard. We are working hard to challenge the typical ways of business and develop an environment where our employees feel safe, comfortable, and look forward to coming to work. No matter which location you visit, you can’t help but feel the close-knit work-family environment.

We have strategically and organically grown our company from within, promoting from the ground up and providing employees with opportunities to explore their different passions within our own walls. This culture allows our people to develop valuable, marketable skills they can use throughout their career. Plus, with benefits like Baby Bonding, My Holiday vacation time, and discounts on everything from movie tickets to cell phone bills, we’re constantly evolving our resources to provide our people with tools to make their lives easier!

Company Perks:

• Significant bonus potential
• Company truck, cell phone, and laptop provided
• Work boot allowance
• Rent ANY of our equipment for FREE
• Unique “My Holiday” benefit lets you celebrate any holiday without using personal time!

We are actively fostering a workplace culture where individuals of all identities and life experiences feel genuinely valued, respected, and appreciated. As a proud equal-opportunity employer, we wholeheartedly welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds and cultures. We recognize and celebrate the unique perspectives they bring, with the understanding that they are the fuel for the innovative ideas that drive the evolution of our industry.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

A Drug Free Workplace and Participates in E-Verify

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

Please contact Laurin at lladner@fmi.vet for more information.