Automotive Gearbox Company General Manager

4 weeks ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Select Motor Recruitment Full time
Duties:
  • Provide leadership, support and management to ensure that the vision, mission and culture within the Company are maintained
  • Ensure that the company values are suitably communicated across at all sites
  • Actively plan for succession planning of own role as well as the other strategic roles within each site
  • Communicate KPI's and benchmarks to direct subordinates ensuring these are clearly explained
  • Conduct the required performance appraisals twice a year with departmental heads
  • Actively strive for improved overall site efficiency through cost, process and productivity analysis annually, submitting relevant plans and implementing on approval
  • Actively develop team to ensure they are suitably skilled and able to fulfil their functions
  • Ensure adherence to required healthy and safety regulations within ISO guidelines and client protocols at each site, continuously promoting health and safety
  • Ensure efficient and suitable use of all department resources, ensuring company assets and resources are properly handled
  • Communicate with managers to ensure that the site equipment is suitably available, maintained, updated and in working order
  • Communicate with managers to ensure that a daily/weekly cleaning schedule is enforced, ensuring workspace is neat and clean through mopping, packing, cleaning, recycling, planning and organizing at each site
  • Maintain and enforce all necessary quality control procedures
  • Suitable allocation and prioritization of work at site as required, checking on progress at regular intervals daily
  • Ensure all necessary deadlines of managers and targets are met
  • Ensure all necessary SLA requirements for clients are met
  • Ensure that the Site Managers conduct weekly site safety inspections, reporting any necessary information to the client and Operations Director
  • Monitor sales figures, reporting through to the executive team on a weekly basis and facilitating action should sales be down
  • Effectively manage and work with the team to monitor the service and fuel accounts for all site vehicles
  • Communicate with Site Managers to ensure overall accuracy and proper maintenance of job cards on site
  • Facilitate client meetings as per their prescribed terms and schedule
  • Assist customers with all issues, queries and complaints efficiently and in line with the ethical guidelines of the company
  • Work to resolve issues in a speedy and appropriate manner, ensuring that all are monitored, and that relevant action is expedited
  • Continuously identify and analyze customer service trends in order to determine necessary system improvements, facilitating action where required
  • Ensure customer satisfaction is maintained and that client relationships are properly managed, maintained and nurtured
Requirements:
  • 15 years + experience in Automotive industry in same or similar role as General Manager/Service Manager
  • Qualified Motor / Diesel Trade
  • Managed more than 20 staff members
  • Able to work overtime
  • Must be technically minded individual, automatic transmission experience would be an added benefit
  • Excellent understanding of automotive industry
  • Motor Industry Experience ESSENTIAL


*Only candidates that meet the criteria will be shortlisted and contacted
*If you have not heard from us within 14 days from submission of your CV to us, you can assume you have not been successful
*Only candidates with Automotive Industry experience will be considered and contacted unless otherwise stipulated
If you are interested and have the required SKILLS and EXPERIENCE according to the job spec, please UPLOAD your current, updated CV on our Website using the following link:

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