Cox Enterprises

Manager, Truck Shop Maintenance

Cox Enterprises

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Chicago • Illinois • United States

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Salary

💰 $81,400 - $122,000 per year

About the role

  • Lead a team of 25 + technicians, provide leadership and guidance to deliver company results
  • Meet one-on-one with direct reports to provide coaching and mentoring and help them find solutions
  • Retrieve, review and monitor metrics, reports, process documentation, customer service logs, and/or training or safety records as needed to analyze team productivity reports and follow up with technicians as necessary to make recommended changes to improve maintenance and repair efficiency
  • Travel to customer locations frequently
  • Participate in and/or lead regular meetings with market team members across various organizational functions, such as dispatch, parts, billing, etc.
  • Monitor operations to ensure that technicians comply with administrative and DOT policies and procedures, safety rules and regulations, applicable environmental and/or government regulations, and work is accomplished in a manner consistent with organizational standards and requirements
  • Perform onboarding activities for technicians, such as requesting equipment or tools and company-issued service truck, completing all forms of new hire documentation, and/or providing access to various company systems to ensure all have resources, tools, and equipment they need to complete their work safely and effectively
  • Regularly conduct safety audits and Quality Control Inspections (QCIs) and Safety Audits
  • Assist in the development of and/or adherence to a monthly budget
  • Coordinate with market team members to set goals and strategies for improving team and market productivity
  • Collaborate and coordinate with dispatch and sales team to ensure each tech has full schedule every day
  • Delegate work to technicians as unscheduled repair calls come in and coordinate with internal team accordingly
  • Participate in a regular safety meeting to review organizational safety information and messages to reiterate the safety culture of the company
  • Implement safety processes and procedures and monitor technicians’ adherence to them
  • Provide guidance and expert advice to management, subordinates, or customers on technical, systems-, or process-related topics and encourage others to do the same
  • Collaborate with customers to provide solutions that meet customer vehicle maintenance requirements
  • Able to act as liaison between CAMFS technicians and customers
  • Facilitate communication and problem solving across various organizational functions to resolve any issues
  • Provide technicians with standard and emergency operating procedures for maintenance, replacement, and repair work
  • Monitor inventory levels of equipment, parts, or tools across technicians
  • Interview, select, and train new technicians
  • Actively work across CAMFS organizations to resolve items related to the technician’s role, such as HR, Parts/Procurement, Fleet Management, IT, etc.
  • Operate a company-issued vehicle to travel to technicians and customer locations
  • May perform some technician duties such as preventive maintenance or parts repairs or replacements as needed using the appropriate tools and equipment to model appropriate practices for technicians
  • Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 6 years’ experience in a related field
  • The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and 4 years’ experience; a Ph.D. and one (1) years’ experience in a related field; or 10 years’ experience in a related field
  • 1+ year of experience in management or lead role
  • Safe drivers needed; valid driver’s license required
  • Must be at least 21 yrs. or older
  • Skills in coaching, mentoring, teaching, disciplining, having difficult conversations and ‘tough love’ as it pertains to mobile technicians
  • Knowledge of the mobile work environment and challenges, maintenance practices, and processes requirements for mobile maintenance
  • Ability to coordinate multiple group efforts to solve issues related to the technician job
  • Ability to act with a high sense of urgency
Benefits
  • The flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations
  • Seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year
  • Up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members
  • Additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave
  • Health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  • Retirement planning (401(k))
  • Paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO)

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
team leadershipcoachingmentoringsafety auditsquality control inspectionsbudget managementpreventive maintenancemobile maintenance practicestechnical guidanceproblem solving
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationdelegationorganizational skillsinterpersonal skillsconflict resolutionadaptabilitycoordinating effortsteachingdisciplining
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMaster's degreePh.D.valid driver's license