Body Shop Foreman

About the role

Florida Kenworth is seeking a talented individual to take on our Body Shop Foreman – Working role. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 years of heavy-duty truck experience and is mechanically inclined. Excellent benefits offered. This is a great opportunity to join a high-performing team within a growing and successful dealer group!

Responsibilities

• Maintains order in the shop
• Responsible for job assignments
• Responsible for the shop’s cleanliness, organization, and function
• Assists technicians with requests
• Performs hands-on journey-level repair, upfitting, and bodywork as part of the daily workload, in addition to lead duties
• Accurately clocks into and out of assigned jobs and repair orders to record time worked.
• Tracks technicians' time in Karmak and is responsible for ensuring technicians are properly clocked on jobs
• Coordinates and communicates with the Body Shop Manager

Duties

• Assesses incoming Body department jobs, makes initial repair diagnosis, and creates customer repair orders following company procedures, including obtaining customer signature on form
• Updates and closes computerized customer repair orders while ensuring all Body department activities were accounted for and properly documented on the order
• Manages available billing hours by planning and effectively delegating workload to qualified and available Body technicians while also carrying a personal production workload
• Provides leadership and demonstrates sound industry knowledge while