Service Controller

Recra is working in partnership with a reputable engineering company specializing in construction and is seeking an enthusiastic Service Controller to join their fantastic business.

**Main Purpose of the Role**:
The main purpose of this central role for the organization is to ensure all correct work practices, procedures, and safety precautions are followed at all times to ensure world-class service to the customer is provided.

This demanding customer-facing role will see you assess job priorities and assign them accordingly to the Field Service Engineer team. You will need to make sure that work is carried out on schedule and liaise closely with the Depot Manager and the Sales Department to give feedback on service planning and overall performance.

Additional responsibilities of this role include such activities as recognizing the training needs of your team, developing your staff, mentoring, and providing career coaching; motivating your staff, individually and as a group; understanding and supporting diversity; and establishing an effective and efficient team.

**Duties**:

- Build strong and positive relationships with customers (and on occasion face to face).
- Meet and exceed customer expectations whilst maintaining profitability.
- Answer all incoming calls efficiently (answer with confidence in yourself, in your colleagues, and in your Company, and take ownership of those calls).
- Liaison with the Watling parts department to order parts required for workshop tasks.
- Liaison with service supervisor on efficient use of service engineers.
- Responsible for ensuring service engineers are efficiently and effectively used to keep machine downtime in the depot to a minimum.
- Responsible for the efficient and accurate raising of service job cards and sublet numbers.
- Responsible for ensuring the customer is kept fully updated regarding machine repair work and/or additional work requirements.
- Responsible for the efficient and accurate raising of warranty claims to the company in conjunction with the warranty team.
- Responsible for the efficient and accurate invoicing of internal accounts.
- Responsible for ensuring work-in-progress is kept to a one-month minimum.

**Essential**:

- To communicate efficiently and express your ideas clearly and confidently at all levels verbally, in print, and via the telephone.
- Teamwork is the ability to work confidently within a group and on own initiative.
- Time Management, ability to manage time effectively, prioritize tasks, and work to deadlines.
- Drive and determination to get things done, make things happen, and continually look for better ways of doing things.
- Analysing and Investigating, ability to gather information systematically to establish facts and principles for problem-solving.
- Commercial Awareness, ability to understand the commercial realities affecting the organization.
- Flexibility, ability to adapt successfully to changing situations and environments.
- Initiative and Self-Motivation, ability to act on initiative, identify opportunities and be proactive in putting forward ideas & solutions.

**Personal Attributes**:

- Capable of delivering results under pressure and to strict deadlines.
- Quality focused.
- Honest, reliable, trustworthy, and a good timekeeper.
- Ability to be professional, cheerful, and cooperative at all times.
- Ability to be motivated and customer-focused.

**Benefits**:

- Attractive rates of pay.
- Pension scheme.
- 22 days paid holiday + bank holidays + 1 day for every 5 years completed service.
- Contributory medical insurance scheme.
- Death in service company life assurance.
- Merchandise purchases at cost.
- Sickness scheme.
- Childcare voucher scheme.
- O2 Employee benefits.
- Private medical health.
- Occupational health.
- Learning and development programs.
- Career progression.

Please contact Recra if you are interested in this role at 0116 4646336.