Garage Supervisor

Garage Supervisor

Full-time, permanent

Ashton Brooks Funeral Directors, Altrincham

£24,496.00 per annum + on-call ancillary payments + overtime payments

38.33 hours per week + on-call
Accruing 22 - 25 days holiday + bank holidays | Sick pay eligibility after 12-month qualifying period | Life Assurance 2 x salary

At Dignity, we are proud to work in a unique industry. We succeed by helping people through difficult times with compassion, respect, openness, and care.

We offer a range of challenging and rewarding roles for caring individuals across the funeral profession and we continually invest in our staff, premises, and vehicles so that we can ensure clients and their loved ones receive the highest standard of care. Every day, we want to exceed our customers’ expectations, and we aim to do this by persistently delivering excellent client service through the continued dedication of our people.

With Altrincham’s Stamford Quarter a short walk away, Ashton Brookes Funeral Directors is close to the town centre. Based at the old St George’s of Altrincham School, our grounds are full of heritage. With almost 50 years of experience in funeral care, our families can count on us to offer an unparalleled service.

Ashton Brooks Funeral Directors are looking for a professional and compassionate individual to join our collaborative and dedicated team as our Garage Supervisor. Our values: Professional, Compassion, Respect & Knowledge form the basis of all our interactions and recognising this, you will be giving back to families in a critical time, whilst ensuring that their loved ones are treated with the utmost respect and dignity.

Alongside a highly collaborative, dedicated, and supportive management team, we will give you the room to stretch and develop within the industry. With both training and learning opportunities, our dedicated Learning and Development team and management team will ensure that you are delivered full training to confidently perform this role and will also aim to promote your progression. Alongside this, Dignity Plc really believes in our people, so you will also have access to a wide range of Mental and Financial Well-being tools, access to financial support, and a broad range of benefits.

What Will I Be Doing as A Garage Supervisor?

As the Garage Supervisor, you will be at the core of our business and the funerals which we deliver within the community. As a Garage Supervisor, you will be responsible for diary management and booking of funerals and vehicles for all branches in the Altrincham area to ensure efficient service delivery

Other duties will include:

- Keep and build a good working relationship with all staff on the team.
- Lead by example and assist with funerals and deceased transfers when required.
- Responsible for supporting the diary management and booking of funerals and vehicles for all branches of the brand to ensure efficient service delivery.
- Oversee all Funeral Service Operatives, Trainee Embalmer casual staff.
- Management and maintenance of all vehicles (including cleanliness).
- Supporting the ordering of all coffin, workshop, and embalming stock.
- Ensure all transfers of deceased in office hours are completed in a timely manner.
- Overseeing and supporting the coordination of all fleet vehicles to complete daily funerals.
- Responsible for checking standards within the garages and workshops to ensure that all areas are always kept clean and tidy.
- Take health and safety seriously and be responsible for ensuring compliance with relevant health and safety procedures.
- Adhere to Company policies, procedures and NAFD codes of practice.
- Manage and monitor compliance of the Identification of the deceased and the Jewellery and Personal Effects procedures.
- Carry out reasonable requests as and when requested to do so by the line manager & participate in the on-call rota.

What Do I Need?
- A Full UK Driving Licence.
- Excellent organisation skills
- Previous management/supervisory experience.

Advantageous:

- Previous experience in the industry, though this is not required, as full training will be provided.

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**Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Statement**

Our Vision is to connect with our clients, colleagues, company, and communities based on our principles whilst celebrating our differences.

We aim to empower leaders and colleagues to seek out and understand new voices and perspectives; to be vocal about inequity and exclusion, and take decisive, informed, and bold action to promote inclusion and belonging.