Bodyshop Manager

Pybus Recruitment Ltd; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary + bonus

Car allowance

Pension contributions

Ongoing training

Job summary

Pybus Recruitment Ltd is seeking a Bodyshop Site Manager for the Basingstoke site to oversee on-site repair teams and ensure timely delivery of high-quality accident repair services. You will manage day-to-day operations, lead a team of technicians and estimators, monitor KPIs and optimise resource use.

You will drive health and safety compliance, plan workloads to meet agreed timescales, and work effectively under pressure while maintaining high standards and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Experience as Bodyshop Site Manager is essential.
• Proven adherence to health and safety protocols.
• Ability to plan workload to meet timescales and work under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Manage on-site bodyshop team (paint sprayers, panel beaters, MET technicians, estimators, admin).
• Control resources and costs to maximise site profitability and manage supplier relationships.

Skills

Team leadership

Health & safety

Workload planning

Manufacturers specifications

Job description

• Salary Highly Competitive Salary + Excellent Bonus + Car Allowance
• Province Hampshire
• Country United Kingdom
• Postal Code RG21

Job Description

Job Title: Bodyshop Manager – Accident Repair Bodyshop

Salary: Highly Competitive + Excellent Bonus + Car allowance

Full Time and Permanent – Monday to Friday – no weekends!

• Competitive salary plus performance related bonus and monthly car allowance
• Pension contributions
• Ongoing training provided
• Opportunities for career progression due to ongoing business growth

Our client is an award-winning company with over 30 years of knowledge and expertise within the vehicle body repair sector. Having originated in the Midlands, the business is expanding rapidly through organic growth and acquisition throughout the UK.

Our client is dynamic in their approach and geared to completing outstanding repairs, by combining the latest techniques and most effective technology with delivering excellent customer service. They ensure that their customers are at the heart of what they do.

Whether it is minor car park damage or a road traffic accident our clients 203 repair centres provide a range of services that use modern repair methods to put your vehicle back to its pre-accident condition, ensuring they repair every vehicle with utmost pride and care.

You will be responsible for managing our clients team at their Basingstoke Site, that will carry out repair work for a range of vehicles. You will be responsible for managing an on-site team of experts, including paint sprayers, panel beaters, MET technicians, estimators and all administrative staff. You will understand the business needs, the accounts, reports and KPI's, effectively manage site resources and costs to optimise capability and profitability and actively and efficiently manage work provider and supplier relationships.

You will deal with any customer issues, and ensure time is prioritized for interviewing, to ensure open vacancies are filled swiftly.

About You

You will have prior experience as a Bodyshop Site Manager, with expertise in health and safety protocols, ensuring these measures are consistently adhered to. You will be responsible for planning your workload effectively to ensure vehicles are ready to agreed timescales; working skilfully and safely under pressure, and carrying out work in accordance with manufacturers specification.

You will be able to lead and work as part of a team as well as on your own initiative with minimal supervision, be flexible in your approach and continually work to high standards with customer satisfaction in mind. Additionally, you will have the ability to motivate your team to achieve daily, weekly, and monthly site targets.

Requirements

You will have prior experience as a Bodyshop Site Manager, with expertise in health and safety protocols, ensuring these measures are consistently adhered to. You will be responsible for planning your workload effectively to ensure vehicles are ready to agreed timescales; working skilfully and safely under pressure, and carrying out work in accordance with manufacturers specification.

You will be able to lead and work as part of a team as well as on your own initiative with minimal supervision, be flexible in your approach and continually work to high standards with customer satisfaction in mind. Additionally, you will have the ability to motivate your team to achieve daily, weekly, and monthly site targets.

• Competitive salary plus performance related bonus and monthly car allowance
• Pension contributions
• Ongoing training provided
• Opportunities for career progression due to ongoing business growth