Mobile Technician Leader

Role Overview

• Lead a team of 15+ 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 technician and customer locations frequently.
• Participate in and/or lead regular meetings with market team members across various organizational functions, such as dispatch, parts, and 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 trucks, 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 a 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 function as liaison between Cox Fleet’s 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 Cox Fleet’s 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.

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 and 3 YR MVR review required; Candidate must hold a valid state-of-residence driver’s license, be able to obtain and maintain their Driver Qualification File.
• Due to interstate operating authority commerce regulations, candidates must be at least 21 years or older.
• Skills in coaching, mentoring, teaching, discipline, 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 Company offers eligible employees 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.
• Employees are also eligible for 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 insurance (medical, dental, vision)
• Retirement planning (401(k))
• Paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO)