Customer Experience - Technical Service Supervisor (OEM)

Customer Experience - Technical Service Supervisor - Gainesville, GA

About Our Client :

Our client has been in business for more than 50 years providing state-of-the-art processing equipment for their partners in the food industry. They specialize in providing total line solutionsfrom consultation through system design, manufacturing, and integration. Their cutting-edge technology focuses on turnkey systems for high-capacity further processing lines.

They have asked us to identify a talented and motivated professional to join them in the key role of Customer Experience - Technical Service Supervisor (link removed)>

This is a growing company with a great history and a fantastic future. Come join a winning team and contribute to their success!

Job Summary :

The Customer Experience - Technical Service Supervisor is called to plan, direct, and carry out service activities with the goal of meeting customer needs by providing superior technical support via troubleshooting calls with customers as well as to supervise, plan and coordinate technical service team field work while developing and maintaining customer relations.

Duties / Responsibilities :

Lead, train, and mentor field service team in best service practices while maintaining a superior level of customer service.

Manage and direct the tasks of field service techs for both weekday and weekend service work.

Continually communicate with service team to ensure they are on pace with their assigned service call, provide tips and suggestions, ensuring each service technician is providing a high-level customer experience, and maintaining the highest quality service for clientele.

Monitor job and travel times for all members of the service team to achieve an in budget & on time result.

Develop and maintain service technician field service schedules to meet customer needs and exceed their expectations.

Coach, mentor, and train service techs as required to ensure employees meet both customer and corporate expectations.

Advise, participate, and conduct appropriate PIP and / or disciplinary actions as required to correct inappropriate behavior of service technicians.

Assist with managing all customer service agreements to meet or exceed customer expectations.

Evaluate job performance during and post completion and take steps to improve production, lower costs, and improve the customer experience.

Responsible for all service scheduling to ensure minimum cost associated with service and rebuild related tasks and maximize customer satisfaction.

Lead corporate role of providing superior technical support via troubleshooting calls with customers; 24 / 7 on call for technical support.

Develop alternative sources to provide technical support via troubleshooting calls.

Work with Customer Experience Manager to prioritize customer service and sales needs.

Review customer service needs and make decisions concerning staffing requirements, work procedures, and duty assignments while considering time constraints.

Manage onsite job time, material allocation and job hours.

Review and approve all service personnel timecards for payroll.

Development and administration of service contracts.

Initiate and coordinate cost control programs to achieve the greatest efficiency and lowest operational cost for a given job or service trip.

Develop and implement in-plant safety procedures including planning and conducting monthly safety training as it pertains to in-plant service.

Prepare trip reports, and service analysis reports on all service and rebuilds.

Backup for in-plant emergencies and production related training.

Supervise service technicians to ensure all company policies and procedures are followed.

Responsible for maximizing service personnel by utilizing cross training and personnel development.

Inspect and sign off on equipment prior to shipping to ensure quality and assembly standards have been met.

First line of contact and coverage as required when Customer Experience Manager is away from the office or unavailable.

Performs other related duties / projects as assigned.

Targets and Goals : Safety Targets

Complete near miss forms on a regular basis and take all corrective action to resolve the issue and / or raise safety awareness.

The company will use these as a guide for safety training during the monthly toolbox talks.

No PPE safety violations within the department.

Housekeeping Ensure all service staff are cleaning and organizing their work area daily -cleanup the last 15 minutes of each shift.

Awareness and Accountability make employees aware of safety hazards and concerns.

Hold them accountable for violations utilizing the discipline structure outlined in the employee handbook.

Material Savings

Monitor purchased materials as well as manufactured parts and kits to ensure all cost savings measures are taken on each job.

Labor Savings Targets

Manage job times and labor costs by monitoring daily production for each employee.

Address any issues with service tech.

Continually establish improvements to decrease job times and labor costs.

Track and Reduce Customer Relation Issues

Log all customer relation issues communicate with customers to mend any relationships address and correct customer relations issue with service tech.

Required Skills / Abilities :

Judgment and Decision Making Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.

Critical Thinking Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

Coordination Adjusting actions in relation to others actions.

Time Management Managing ones own time.

Speaking Talking to others to convey information effectively.

Gathering Information Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining informa