What are the responsibilities and job description for the Body Shop Foreman position at Summit Truck Group?
Body Shop Foreman
Take your career to the Summit…
At Summit Truck Group, one of the country’s leading heavy duty truck dealer groups, our success depends on serving our customers with the best team members in the industry. If your career goals include making a valuable contribution as Body Shop Supervisor in an exciting and growing company and working with top professionals in the industry then consider joining our team.
Summit Truck Group in Tulsa, OK is seeking an enthusiastic, hard-working, customer-oriented individual who can work in a team environment as Body Shop Foreman.
The Body Shop Foreman ensures the body shop employees are constantly increasing levels of customer and employee satisfaction while improving the efficiency of manpower, materials and machines in the Body Shop Department.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible to review work in progress.
- Responsible to other departments, service write, Navistar, and customers to address any questions about work in progress.
- Maintain good communications with parts department as to parts order status.
- Communicate any service related needs to the customer.
- Communicate with the Service Manager any discipline or employee problems
- Responsible for conducting the flow of all work.
- Maintain access and knowledge to navigate Navistar and vendor secure web sites.
- Responsible to reviewing and signing off on all completed work orders, noting technicians comments, technician sign off, repair completion, and road test completion.
- Responsible for ensuring all allotted time is posted on repair order before closing.
- Ability to participate in month end closing.
- Ensure and maintain a safe and clean work environment.
- Keep abreast of all federal, state and local regulations regarding hazardous waste disposal.
- Keep abreast and ensure that employees understand emergency plans for hazardous waste spills.
- Ability to prepare quotes on repair jobs and complicated installation projects.
- Prepares estimates and quotes on the phone.
- Makes frequent calls on customers as required.
- Ensure proper training is conducted for all employees.
- Ensure hazardous material is stored and discarded properly.
- Ensure proper estimates are provided to insurance adjusters.
- Conduct accurate work order completing for billing.
- Perform all other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Strong written and verbal communication skills required to interact with customers, employees, and co-workers.
- Ability to work and learn independently.
- Ability to use various computer software. Proficient in Microsoft Office.
- Additional training in welding is preferred.
- Supervisory skills.
- Training in Body Shop and estimating preferred.
- Extensive knowledge of the trucking industry and collision repair.
- Two (2) to five (5) years of experience in the trucking/transportation/Body industry.
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Commercial Valid Driver’s license required.
Your rewards will be an exciting environment with advancement opportunities at one of the nation’s leading and growing heavy duty truck dealer groups. Summit Truck Group offers great career opportunities, along with a competitive salary, benefits, training and a culture where we strive to help our employees to be successful.
About our Company:
Summit Holdings is a privately held company that does business as Summit Truck Group, Summit Bus, and Summit Lease & Rental. The company operates 32 commercial truck and bus dealerships in Arkansas, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. Summit Truck Group represents and services International®, Kenworth, Volvo, Mack, Ford and Isuzu commercial trucks, and Crane Carrier specialty vehicles. Summit Truck Group delivers exceptional customer service through its more than 1,200 employees, 440 technicians, and 458 service bays.
Summit Truck Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a drug-free workplace
