Key Account Supervisor

KONE • Davie, FL

74d • $142,896 - $142,896

About The Position

Founded in 1910, KONE is a global leader that provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our world's cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make people's journeys safe, convenient and reliable. Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as an innovation and sustainability leader with repeated recognitions by Forbes, Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others. Are you ready to make your next career move to join our team as our Marine Key Account Supervisor based in Davie, FL?

Requirements

• This position requires a minimum of a bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent, in Electronics Engineering, Electro-Mechanical Engineering, or a related field, and 3 years of experience working in elevator or other people movement industry, or related.
• Alternatively, in lieu of a bachelor's degree, employer will accept, no degree and 7 years of experience working in elevator or other people movement industry, or related.
• Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience.
• Professional experience with reading, analyzing, and interpreting technical procedures of marine elevator diagrams in order to manage resources in the field.
• Inventory management for European elevator supply of spare parts in order to ensure necessary parts are available for elevator maintenance projects.
• Overseeing annual inspections of European elevators in order to ensure elevators comply with local and country regulations.
• Working with marine customers including those in the European cruise ship and shipyard commercial industries.
• European elevator code requirements such as EN81-20 and applying these requirements in a customer context.
• Management and leadership skills such as finance, quality management, risk mitigation and management, and root cause analysis.
• Critical elevator components and nuances between maritime and land side products.

Responsibilities

• Plan, manage and control the field service operations in his area including specific customers and according to the service contract requirements, KONE company policies and processes.
• The Key Account Supervisor is the first point of contact for direct reporting technicians and for customers raising technical or operational issues.
• Drive results through a team of direct reports and is accountable for customer satisfaction through quality of service and precise communication - act as single point of contact for customers and manage customer escalations as needed.
• Manage complex logistics for technicians to ensure they travel to best suited cruise - resolve travel issues for cancelled and postponed flights that could result in work delays.
• Leverage cruise ship industry knowledge to participate in complex customer deals and navigate complex customer relationships to offer service and maintenance contracts on top of purchased products.
• Support business development, including having responsibility for sales lead volume, quality, and processing for sales teams.
• Resolve complex customer service quality complaints which includes root cause analysis and coordination across various business areas in KONE.
• Resolve customer invoicing complaints related to service and maintenance operations, including reconciling financial information from multiple sources.
• Manage end-user, site and technician safety.
• Deliver service according to customer service contract requirements, deadlines, KONE quality standards and local code regulations.
• Control cost at field operations to preserve margin and revenue targets for the business.
• Manage all required third-party inspections and may travel on-site to address inspections and necessary follow-up actions.
• Validate all customer technical requirements with sales teams.
• Support the maintenance of foreign equipment coming into shipyards for repairs. Work with technicians to identify assignment conflicts.
• Accountable for solving and closing open conflicts and reacting in case of stopped equipment and / or safety issues.
• Review service repair invoices that are invoiced outside of standard practices. - Accountable for the timely completion of the planned maintenance visits.
• Accountable for the planned maintenance scheduling and optimized routing.
• Responsible for performing site audits.
• Responsible for investigating accidents and following company policy on evidence custody and internal reporting.
• Responsible for the control and authorization of overtime.
• Accountable for the assignment of product and service warranty after modernization or service work is completed.
• Monitor technician performance and objectives and create corrective action and development plans as needed.
• Manage timesheet approval and hours worked for technicians, manages absences and assign back-up technicians as needed.
• Balance technician workload and assign critical resources needed for work.
• Define technician capacity and align work, hiring needs and revenue targets to current and future capacity.
• Up to 25% international and domestic travel required.
• This position will supervise 5-10 direct reports (Service Engineer, Sr. Service Engineer, and Elevator Technicians).

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Flexible work schedule
• Opportunities to learn and grow
• Matching 401K
• Comprehensive health and wellness plans for the entire family
• Paid holidays and paid time off

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Repair and Maintenance
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees