Authorized Service Agents (ASA) Manager

Marmon Holdings, Inc. • Brooklyn Park, MN

41d • $100,000 - $150,000 • Onsite

About The Position

This position ensures field service operates as a disciplined, high-quality extension of the Aftermarket Service Delivery Model—delivering consistent, first-time fix outcomes that protect customer uptime while controlling cost to serve. This role creates value by enforcing certified capability, standardized execution, and diagnostic-driven field work—eliminating variability, preventing repeat visits, and ensuring every dispatch reinforces (not undermines) end-to-end ownership and customer experience. Through strong governance, performance management, and cross-functional alignment with Support, Warranty, Training, and Engineering, the ASA Manager converts field execution into a scalable, data-informed capability—reducing repeat demand, improving service quality, and strengthening the closed-loop learning system across the entire aftermarket operation.

Role Summary
The Authorized Service Agents (ASA) Manager is responsible for governing, enabling, and continuously improving field service execution through a network of certified service partners. This role ensures that field work is delivered as a controlled, high-quality extension of the Aftermarket Service Delivery Model—driving first-time fix, reducing repeat visits, and ensuring alignment with warranty, diagnostics, and service standards. This leader ensures that Authorized Service Agents operate within defined certification, diagnostic, and policy frameworks—balancing customer uptime, service quality, and cost discipline. The ASA Manager protects brand integrity and scalability by eliminating execution variability, enforcing accountability, and ensuring field service reinforces—not undermines—the end-to-end service system.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Operations, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 7+ years of experience in field service, aftermarket operations, or service delivery leadership
• Experience managing third-party service networks or authorized service providers
• Strong understanding of field service operations and dispatch models, warranty processes and cost management, and technical troubleshooting and repair workflows
• Experience working cross-functionally with Support, Training, Warranty, and Engineering teams
• Proven experience improving service quality, first-time fix, and operational efficiency
• Strong operational leadership and field service governance mindset
• Data-driven decision-making and performance management
• Systems thinking (understanding of end-to-end service lifecycle)
• Ability to enforce standards while maintaining strong partner relationships
• Root cause problem solving and continuous improvement orientation
• Strong communication, influence, and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Change management and accountability leadership

Nice To Haves

• Experience with ASA or contractor certification models
• Familiarity with service diagnostics platforms and guided workflows
• Exposure to KPI dashboards and performance analytics tools
• Lean / Six Sigma or process improvement methodologies
• Experience supporting equipment-based or installed-base service businesses

Responsibilities

• Own the ASA operating model, ensuring field service acts as an integrated extension of Aftermarket—not a standalone function
• Define and enforce governance standards for ASA execution, certification, and performance
• Establish clear expectations for service quality, ownership, and compliance across all ASA partners
• Design a scalable ASA model that supports growth in installed base, product complexity, and service demand
• Eliminate variability in field execution by standardizing processes, repair expectations, and workflows
• Perform audits, onsite visits, and relationship build meetings with ASA partners
• Ensure ASAs complete repairs right the first time, aligned to approved diagnostics and repair procedures
• Validate that repairs address root cause—not symptoms—to prevent repeat visits and repeat demand
• Monitor and improve first-time fix rates across all ASAs
• Identify and address common failure modes, execution errors, and rework drivers
• Establish feedback loops into Support, Training, Warranty, and Engineering to improve diagnostics and execution
• Enforce certification requirements by product, complexity level, and customer segment
• Ensure ASAs are deployed only within their certified scope of capability
• Partner with Technical Training to identify skill gaps and recurring capability deficiencies, define recertification needs and ongoing skill development, and align training investments to real service demand and failure patterns
• Monitor certification compliance and drive adherence across all partners
• Ensure all field repairs align with warranty policies, authorization thresholds, and service standards
• Partner with Warranty & National Services to enforce diagnostic validation prior to dispatch
• Monitor warranty-related execution quality, including documentation accuracy, repair alignment to approved paths, proper part usage and claim justification
• Identify and reduce warranty leakage, unnecessary dispatch, and avoidable cost drivers
• Develop and manage ASA performance scorecards, including First-Time Fix Rate, Execution Quality / Error Rate, Repeat Visit Rate, Certification Compliance, and Warranty Documentation Compliance
• Establish clear performance expectations, review cadence, and accountability mechanisms
• Develop and perform an audit process for our ASAs
• Lead corrective actions for underperforming ASAs, including coaching, remediation, or decertification
• Ensure consistent application of standards regardless of geography or customer
• Ensure ASA execution aligns with dispatch decision frameworks and diagnostics-first principles
• Reinforce diagnose-before-dispatch discipline to prevent unnecessary field activity
• Ensure ASAs operate within the broader service system, maintaining clear ownership, minimal handoffs, and consistent workflows
• Partner with Support and Dispatch teams to ensure seamless transition from remote diagnosis to field execution
• Partner with Warranty & National Services, Technical Training, Customer Support / Case Ownership, Engineering / Product Teams, and Technology & Data Analytics
• Translate field execution insights into actionable improvements across diagnostics and troubleshooting processes, training content and certification standards, and warranty and dispatch policies
• Ensure alignment between field execution and upstream functions to drive a closed-loop improvement system
• Design field service processes that scale with installed base growth, increased service volume, and product complexity
• Continuously identify opportunities to reduce repeat visits and field rework, improve repair quality and consistency, and lower cost to serve without degrading customer outcomes
• Prevent field service from becoming a bottleneck to customer experience, speed, or cost efficiency

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription Drug insurance plans
• Access to a Health Advocate who is an expert in Marmon’s health plan and can help you select the best health benefits for you and your family
• Tax advantaged spending accounts for health and dependent care expenses
• Wellness programs and resources including Telehealth, Mental Health, Fitness, and Family Planning
• Generous paid time off for personal use, holidays, and parental leave
• Company-sponsored life insurance
• 401(k) with fully vested company match; Marmon may also make an additional annual discretionary contribution to your account, whether or not you contribute on your own
• Financial and retirement advising

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager