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Contracts Manager

AtripleA Recruitment & TempsDurban, ZA

30+ days ago

Job description

Job title : Contracts Manager (Durban)

Job Description :

To be part of a first-class service operation that ensures, response and follow up on all

breakdowns and that all customers are handled within company KPIs with total

professionalism. Develop and lead a successful service team that provides service

excellence to all contract customers. To ensure that the Service team meets target revenue,

margins and expenses and that all contract equipment is maintained to the highest standard

at targeted cost levels. To develop his team in all necessary skills both technical and

business.

Minimum Qualifications and Requirements :

Forklift technical qualification or at least 7 years’ service management experience.
Knowledge of relevant legislation regarding health and safety, environmental and

labour.

Relevant computer skills including e mail, excel, word and power point.

Used to working to and achieving deadlines monthly.

Duties and Responsibilities :

To lead the contracts service team to ensure agreed growth targets for both contract

and accident damage revenue and profit are met and where possible exceeded.

To visit contract customers on a regular basis to report on fleet management and to

ensure that contract customers are satisfied with levels of uptime, response and the

general service levels offered by the contracts team.

To assist the service admin department in collecting excess hours for contract

equipment.

To ensure that all contract technicians are kept busy, maximize productive time in

line with KPI’s and that additional contract service work is obtained and that contract

customers buy forks and tyres from the company.

To ensure that all quotes for customer service and abuse work is followed up and

billed correctly.

To physically check that all contract equipment is maintained to the highest quality

and manufacturers standards, scheduled servicing is carried out on time

and that all contract machines are in the correct condition during and at the end of

the contract

To manage the costs of each contract machine and to authorise bought out purchase

orders, expensive parts fitted so that costs do not exceed budgeted levels.

To ensure that all contract equipment and customer PMA load tests are scheduled

correctly and that hour meter readings are up to date.

To ensure that all contract equipment and customer PMA services are scheduled

correctly and that hour meter readings are up to date.

To regularly check contract technician’s vehicles to ensure that they conform to the

relevant road safety ordinances and that they are clean and tidy.

Follow up with technicians to ensure job is completed within company KPI’s. Monitor

all open jobs from the breakdown register

To cost all completed jobs within 2 days of the jobs being completed

To follow up on contract debtors’ queries in order to resolve as soon as possible so

that debtor’s days’ targets are achieved for contracts.

To ensure that warranty work is correctly authorised, completed to the standard

required by the manufacturer and that all claims are processed on time.

To ensure that all technician timesheets are handed in correctly daily

To ensure that all leave, overtime and standby claims are signed and handed to the

Service Admin / Regional Manger by no later than the 5th of each month.

To ensure that weekly technicians’ meetings are being held, recorded and minutes of

meetings held being sent to the Service Admin / Regional Manager as well as the

Service Manager.

To ensure that all customer visit reports are submitted to your manager for checking

on a weekly basis.

To assist the credit controllers to resolve debtors’ queries so that debtors KPI’s are

achieved.

To ensure that the contracts department meets all agreed KPIs and commercial

targets.

Work closely with other key personnel internally to develop and achieve company

budget, performance and strategic objectives.

Organise and implement formal technical skills and product training programs for all

technical staff.

To implement and manage good people management ensuring that all staff have a

formal balanced scorecard and that the required performance reviews are conducted

twice a year.

To ensure that voluntary staff turnover in the department is kept below pa.

To maintain health and safety, environmental and company standards and policies

on site and customer’s sites where contract technicians are stationed.

To follow the company code of conduct and policies and to ensure all members of

staff in the department are aware of and always follow them.

Attend Management meetings as required and to ensure that staff are kept up to date

and that relevant results and policies etc. are communicated promptly.

Ensure that risk management policies are always implemented and followed up and

that company assets and personnel under the departments control are adequately

protected.

To ensure that market pricing and competitive information is always up to date and to

report any changes and developments in the market and with competitors back to the

Management Team.

As and when requested to prepare monthly and quarterly forecasts and annual

departmental budgets.

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