Service and Stock Controller

Location: Gloucester

Reports to:    Service Manager – Gloucester Operations

Overall purpose of the job:

  • To supervise maintenance and repair activities for Civilian and Military contracts.
  • To provide effective customer service and build relationships with both internal and external customers. 
  • To action customer repair’s, maintenance and breakdown requests in a timely and cost effective manor.
  • To monitor and organise all service and pre planned work. 
  • To work within a service team and to liaise effectively with all other departments.
  • To prioritise work effectively ensuring all documentation is accurate.
  • To ensure all information is correctly entered into in-house software systems accurately with sufficient and suitable information.
  • To managed goods in and out of Gloucester stores.


Responsibilities    

  • To take customer calls and log repair notifications.
  • To lease with service manager to allocate the appropriate Field Service Engineer to meet customer requirements.
  • Maintaining established and new contract plans. Ensuring that all scheduled maintenance contracts are managed in a timely and cost efficient manner.
  • Liaise with Service Manager regarding any issues that may arise.
  • Keep customers updated on the reported job progress.
  • Deal with day to day queries from both internal and external customers.
  • Ensure all jobs are entered onto the appropriate in-house computer system.
  • To ensure maximum utilisation of Field Service Engineering resource according to capacity and geographical location.
  • To reschedule jobs and resources according to emerging customer needs and resource availability.
  • Ensure all service records are received from the appropriate Field Service Engineer and are accurate.
  • To ensure that all field service vehicle parts sales are recorded accurately and promptly.  
  • Provide data and supporting evidence to internal and external customers regarding service work that has been completed and or is outstanding.
  • To effectively liaise with customers regarding enquiries.
  • To provide further assistance to other team members when requested.
  • To book engineers onto customers sites, ensuring all the correct paperwork has been completed.
  • To book parts to jobs and allocate them to the engineers.
  • To book stock into stores and ensure stock levels are correct.

Key Result Areas      

  • KPI’s to be monitored.
    • Up to date and clear administration.
    • Safety defects outstanding.
    • Overdue services.
    • To keep WIP at a manageable level.
    • Administration of aged jobs and invoice queries.
  • Effective time management and allocation of resources.
  • Effective and efficient planning of Field Service Engineers (including 3rd party Engineers) working hours.
  • Effectively manage customer enquiries.
  • Monitoring engineers documentation.
  • Ensure best practices are used when distributing field service engineer’s jobs.

Standards of Performance    

  • To maintain and develop current processes and procedures in the upkeep of the internal documentation.
  • To maintain a high standard of customer service at all times.
  • To actively play a part in the planning and coordinating of all service work that is due to be carried out.
  • Develop own competence to meet requirements of job.
  • Undertake any other duties consistent with the purpose of this job.

Person Specification: 

  • Ability to troubleshoot and put forward new ideas to improve processes within the department.
  • Ability to prioritise own work and work within the department to assist others.
  • Ability to make decisions based on incomplete information which has been filtered through others.
  • Confidence to put forward views and contribute to the development of the department.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Excellent planning skills.
  • Able to work under pressure.
  • Demonstrate commitment to personal professional development.
    •    To demonstrate self-motivation in achieving own and departmental objectives. 
    •    Willingness to learn from mistakes.
    •    Willingness to learn other skills within the department.
    •    Ability to demonstrate positive customer service skills.
    •    Ability to develop interpersonal and communication skills.
    •    Ability to model the Terberg values and behaviours.
    •    Ability to adapt to organisational changes.