Service Advisor

Lithia & Driveway • Waukesha, WI

68d

About The Position

The Service Advisor is responsible for providing excellent customer service keeping in mind that our customer’s perspective comes first. This individual presents a friendly, professional greeting to customers and helps identify, confirm and offer resolution to customer concerns. The Service Advisor has a sincere desire to serve our customers. This individual finds and communicates additional repair and service needs to customer based on vehicle inspection. Serves as the communicator between customer and technician; ensuring the customer’s needs are understood by the technician and the needed and recommended service/repairs are understood by the customer. The Service Advisor is supervised by the Service Manager.

Requirements

• High School graduate or equivalent.
• 18 years or older required.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Sense of urgency.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to type efficiently in order to enter repair orders.
• Mathematics skills for calculating service costs and counting change.
• Basic computer skills.

Responsibilities

• Answer incoming telephone calls in a friendly and professional manner in accordance with Incoming Telephone Calls standards (ITC).
• Follow the Initial Customer Contact (ICC) process.
• Greet customers in a friendly and professional manner.
• Identify, confirm and offer resolution to customer concerns.
• Communicate with customer what needs to be done, how much it will cost and when service will be complete.
• Assess customer needs by conducting a vehicle walk around.
• Attain agreement from customer for service needs.
• Offer a multi-point inspection.
• Write accurate repair orders using ADP system.
• Follow the Interim Customer Contact (ICC2) process.
• Provide estimates that are accurate and support upfront pricing guarantee.
• Obtain approval to review findings of multi-point inspection and associated prices.
• Obtain approval to proceed with Additional Service Requests.
• Dispatch repair orders to technicians following department dispatch policy and utilizing cost control methods.
• Communicate with technicians to gain clear understanding of services required and/or performed.
• Follow-up with customer during repair/servicing of vehicle so they are aware of status.
• Follow the Customer Delivery (CD) process.
• Receive and process cash or credit payment for all services performed.
• Upon completion of service promptly and professionally deliver vehicle to customer.
• Ensure the Sales 2 Service process is completely thoroughly by welcoming the customer and explaining what we will provide them.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED