What are the responsibilities and job description for the Shop Foreman position at Nextran Corporation?
Nextran Truck Centers
Shop Foreman - Orlando, FL
Are you looking to further develop your profession into a career? Are you driven by opportunity?
Nextran Truck Centers is hiring!
Our Employees Benefit from:
Career Paths || Network of 30 Dealerships || Disability Insurance || Paid Time Off (2wks 1st year) || Nextran Paid Life Insurance
Family Centered Values || Medical and Dependent Care FSA || 401(k) Retirement Plan with Match || Company-Paid Holidays || EAP
Great Medical, Dental, & Vision Benefits || Social Responsibility Opportunities || 28 Years of Industry Experience || Professional Growth
The Shop Foreman will lead, mentor, and manage service shop personnel efficiently to maximize productivity and profitability while providing an exceptional level of customer service. This person will regularly assist management with the development of technicians through On-The-Job Training.
Essential Duties:
- Assigns work in a productive manner to achieve quality repairs at agreed-upon prices.
- Maintains constant and accurate communications with Service Writers and the Uptime Supervisor.
- Assists the Uptime Supervisor whenever necessary to ensure the highest level of customer satisfaction.
- Minimizes customer wait time on new truck arrivals.
- Works closely with the Uptime Supervisor during the quality control process of all repairs to minimize reworks, comebacks, and customer dissatisfaction with Nextran products and/or services.
- Challenges technicians with assigned work.
- Directly supervises Technician Trainees.
- Provides technical support to technicians and management.
- Follows Customer Contact and Communication Policy.
- Follows all Nextran policies and procedures, including Nextrans Pledge to Customers.
- Final repair order review includes:
- Repair stories
- Adjust repair times as needed.
- Operations toggled correctly Warranty vs Customer pay
- Warranty Documentation eService Case#, CBR #, Fault codes attached
- Warranty parts & Cores are turned in
- Ensure Sublet Invoices are attached to the ASIST case
- Final Invoice matches the estimate
- Provide backup to advisors when needed.
Other duties may be assigned at any time based on departmental needs.
Qualifications: The qualifications listed below are representative of preferred knowledge, skills, and/or abilities. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The ideal candidate will have:
- Minimum 5 years experience in the heavy-duty truck industry managing/supervising Class 6, 7, and/or 8 truck.
- A valid CDL license is a plus.
- Minimum 2-year college degree or equivalent
- Ability to drive and climb into heavy-duty trucks; ability to squat, bend over, and lift components while performing truck repair
- Strong interpersonal and verbal skills in order to communicate with customers, technicians, shop foreman, service writers, and vendors in a professional manner.
- Computer proficiency
- Experience with MV Assist and/or Karmak Info5 software is a plus
Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve problems and deal with various variables in situations with only limited resources. Ability to interpret multiple instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is:
- Regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.
- The employee frequently is required to walk, climb, or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear.
- The employee must stand and sit for extended periods (8 hours) while making repairs.
- Entry or exit from the vehicle's cab.
- Must regularly be capable of lifting, pulling, pushing, and moving up to 50 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is frequently exposed to vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
Essential duties and related qualifications may be changed as needed to meet the changing demands of the organization. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Nextran Truck Centers is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and a Drug Free Workplace.
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We are a network of commercial truck dealerships committed to providing the best products and services through highly skilled associates who are focused on delivering the lowest life-cycle cost to our customers. Spanning the Southeast and Midwest United States, we provide sales, parts, and service for several leading brands, including Mack, Volvo, Isuzu, GMC, Ford, Hino, and Kalmar Ottawa. EEO Employer