Intakes customer vehicles, diagnoses problems and service needs, schedules work, assigns jobs to service technicians and communicates job status to customer
1. Service Department Operations
• Assist Service department manager in maintaining a smooth running efficient service department with a high degree of customer satisfaction.
• Diagnose problems accurately, and clearly describe them on the repair order.
• Estimate costs and completion times at point of sale. Clearly communicate them to customer.
• Assign jobs to technicians based on skill level and current resource utilization.
• Determine correct part numbers on repair orders and assist the parts department with picking and posting of parts before job starts.
• Make estimates for internal and wreck repairs.
• Open & close all customer paid, warranty, and internal repair orders.
• Follow procedures for quick and efficient handling of warranty items, including and proper storage of these items.
2. Customer Service
• Provide superior customer service to both internal and external customers
• Greet customers immediately, in a courteous and friendly manner.
• Handle telephone transactions quickly, and courteously.
• Promptly notify customers of any changes, delays, or additional work needed.
• Sell additional services by pointing out service specials or additional work needed.
• Handle customer complaints reasonably, showing empathy and a positive attitude, and demonstrate our commitment to “Make Things Right”.
• Give special attention to repeat repairs to ensure the situation is corrected.
• Avoid making commitments which cannot (or likely will not) be met. Set customers’ expectations to a level where they will likely be met.