Detail Manager - Car Dealership - Automotive

What Employees Love about Tenvoorde Ford

Daily/Weekly engagement with ownership/management team – we take every opportunity to listen and make our team feel valued. This is where our best ideas come from.

• Weekly salary
• Upward mobility – Tenvoorde Ford is growing, and other leadership positions are needed as we continue to grow as a company.
• Positive, family-oriented culture where great careers are born – Employees are proud to work at Tenvoorde Ford, great work-life balance, benefits and knowing your contributions make the difference.
• Benefits: Paid time off, 401(k) program, employee discounts
• Employee contests – SPIFF’s
• Standard benefits options (medical/dental/vision etc.)
• Opportunity to meet new people every day
• Learning new skills

The Tenvoorde Family is seeking an amazing, experienced Detail Manager!

Have you been told you’re “outgoing, energetic and a great leader with a positive attitude”? Are you looking for a career that offers stability, opportunity and a better work-life mix? If so, we are looking for someone just like you! We need you to be the essential piece of the long-term success of Tenvoorde Ford. You’ll be accountable for your team’s execution of the many facets of the dealership. Our employees are successful with all backgrounds and experience levels. This is a management position with high quality management expectations and management compensation. We are looking for the best-of-the-best and wiling to compensate accordingly.

Responsibilities

What does a Detail Manager do?

• Recruiting, Interviewing, Onboarding and training new detail staff.
• Responsible for motivating the team, holding the team accountable, making personnel decisions and schedules.
• Quality Checks on all completed vehicles
• Ensure crew actively provides excellent finished product
• Training any staff members that are not producing a premium product
• Training detail staff on everything from cleaning to buffing, undercoating vehicles, light body work and PDR (if applicable).
• Manage used inventory in third party software pipeline and push to complete jobs
• Understand the workflow and need of the sales department
• Conduct quarterly employee evaluations
• Develop current staff for future growth and promotions
• Review and submit timesheets for payroll
• Support detail or lot staff with their duties
• Work with vendors to identify vehicles that need work, schedule and document process
• Keep recon software updated as vehicles process thru the system
• Manage and order chemicals, cleaners and shop supplies as needed
• Organize team for snow days or any other mass inventory movements

Qualifications (Highly preferred but not required)

• 2 years of automotive dealership experience
• 2 years of management experience
• 2 years of autobody experience
• 2 years of vehicle repair experience

Good to Know Before You Start!

• Be prepared to work approximately 55 hours per week
• Team players only! You will work with multiple departments and many different people. Non-team players will fail at this job 100% of the time.
• Know your “stamp of approval” goes on every used vehicle, have pride in your teams work so inspect everything and build your team to produce the highest quality product.
• Schedule accordingly and be prepared to sub in nights or Saturdays as needed
• Be prepared to hire, train and manage FT and PT employees
• Must be adaptive to and embrace change
• Basic computer skills are required
• You will walk, stand, bend, stoop, twist, etc. for extended periods of time and perform activities involving holding, grasping, pulling and turning
• You may need to work in hot/cold weather conditions
• Always be alert and aware of your surroundings
• Must be able to lift up to fifty (50) pounds

• We WANT you to make a difference, share your ideas with management!

Tenvoorde Ford is growing rapidly and needs the “best-of-the-best” talent and is willing to pay accordingly. We are excited to hire the ultimate team player that either is a) currently a “difference maker” or “go-to person” at their current job or b) has the ability to be those people but have been held back by their current employer. We encourage people to be amazing every day. If this is you: you are wanted at Tenvoorde Ford so please apply.