Paint Specialist
Advance Auto Parts · Bradenton, FL · 2 days ago
Business DevelopmentFull-time
Primary Responsibilities
- Achieve personal /store sales goals and service objectives.
- Ensure high standards of customer service and store appearance standards.
- Perform specialty paint or industrial supply orders or sources non-stock products as requested by customer.
- Mix paint / Train others to mix paint and perform camera readings and Color tinting when needed.
- Key holder responsibilities (task assignment and completion, safety, open/close duties).
Secondary Responsibilities
- Assist in store inventory processes including truck put away, shoot outs, cycle counts, back stock, etc.
- Store Cleanliness including floors, bathrooms, facing, dusting, parking lot.
Success Factors
- Friendly communication
- Ability to locate and stock PBE.
- Safety knowledge and skills of PBE.
- Operating inventory systems and store equipment
- Operating POS for PBE or Parts lookup systems
- Advanced solution, project, and product quality recommendation ability
- Advanced PBE lookup and sourcing
- Advanced selling skills for Commercial and DIY
Essential Job Skills
- Necessary for Success as a PBE Specialist (Commercial and DIY combined)
- General Knowledge of Paint, Body & Equipment functions, and purposes
- Ability to speak and write English (Spanish a plus); communicate effectively and build strong relationships with customers, peers, and management.
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, PBE or Parts catalogs, and procedure manuals; ability to write simple correspondence.
- Ability to read and interpret financial and operational reports.
- Ability to understand and execute instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
- Successfully complete the PBE Knowledge Assessment
- Ability to complete basic math accurately: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
- Ability to use Microsoft software effectively (Word, Excel)
- Strong organizational skills
- Work an assortment of days, evenings, and weekends as needed.
- Prior Experience that Sets a PBE Specialist (Commercial and DIY combined) up for Success. 3-5 Years Of Prior Automotive PBE Experience Preferred.
- Proven sales ability with experience in fulfillment of customer transactions
Education
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
Physical Demands
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee will predominantly be walking or standing.
- The employee is required to be able to talk and hear and use hands and fingers to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
- The employee is also occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; toxic or caustic chemical.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Work Environment
- The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job, with or without reasonable accommodation.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is usually working inside; however, they will occasionally be outside and exposed to various weather conditions while performing such tasks as installing Paint Mixing Machines, Color Camera readings, Paint color match tinting.
- The employee is also occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; toxic or caustic chemical.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.