Team Leader - Freelander, Dubai & Abu Dhabi

Al Tayer Group; Dubai, Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 156,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

Al Tayer Group in the United Arab Emirates is seeking an experienced Automotive Maintenance Supervisor to plan, organize and manage daily maintenance and repair activities. You will ensure high workmanship and customer satisfaction by enforcing standards and guiding a skilled team on shop floor operations.

The role emphasizes effective scheduling, parts coordination, and quality control to deliver timely service while maintaining a safe, efficient work environment.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years in automotive service industry.
• 3-5 years in a team leader or supervisor role.

Responsibilities

• Allocate jobs to the team based on job cards to maximise labor utilization.
• Monitor work in progress on the shop floor to ensure efficiency and timely completion.
• Advise technicians on schedules and completion dates to deliver vehicles on time.
• Prepare repair requests for additional work and guide on repair methods and parts supply.
• Ensure parts availability and communicate delays with Service Advisor.

Skills

Team leadership

Workshop planning

Quality control

Job description

United Arab Emirates

Job Description

To plan, organize and manage daily maintenance and repair of customers’ vehicles, ensuring high quality of workmanship which meets the set standard of manufacturers and customers’ satisfaction

Responsibilities

Functional Roles and Responsibilities

• Allocate the jobs based on the job cards received to the team to achieve maximum labor utilization
• Control and monitor work in progress at shop floor to ensure staff efficiency and productivity so that the job is completed within the committed delivery time. Ensure technicians clock in and out correctly in the system. Ensure repair order write up of technicians are as per manufacture’s audit requirements
  Upgrade technical knowledge through web-based courses and classroom training.
• Follow up on each repair and advise the technician about the schedule time and completion date to get team effort for delivery of the vehicle on time
• Prepare the repair request for additional work, ensure repair order has been correctly transcribed and allocate the specialist technician to ensure excellent workmanship and quality repair, providing guidance on the repair method, parts supply and monitoring delays in repairs wherever necessary.
• Arrange parts in case the vehicle is getting delayed due to Parts Not Available (PNA) in the counter, discuss with parts dept & the supervisor for further action, not limiting to recommendation of cannibalization from new vehicle depending upon urgency. Promptly communicate the delay to Service Advisor/ Controller.
• In case of peculiar problem is noticed, road test the vehicle for proper repair and make sure that the quality of repairs as per required standard
• Monitor tools, workshop equipment and shop consumables of his team to ensure availability and serviceability, for prompt servicing of vehicles
• Ensure that company’s health safety policies are followed, all tools equipment's are kept in good order, and housekeeping standards are maintained so as to preserve a good safe and healthy working environment.
• Evaluate and monitor performance of the subordinate against set standard, identify necessary training and follow up with Workshop Manager for delivery
• Give clear instruction to costing clerk regarding job carried out and deviation if any with amount to be charged to customer.

Qualification & Experience

• 5-8 years of experience in the automotive service field with 3 – 5 years in a team leader/section head/ Supervisor role