Bodyshop Manager

Pybus Recruitment Ltd; Dudley Wood; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Performance bonus

Monthly car allowance

Pension contributions

Job summary

Pybus Recruitment Ltd represents a premier bodyshop management role in Dudley. The Bodyshop Manager will lead a on-site team of skilled technicians and administrative staff, ensuring repairs are completed to a high standard and on schedule.

You will oversee health and safety, manage resources and costs, and foster strong relationships with customers and suppliers to drive profitability and service excellence.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Bodyshop Site Manager with health and safety expertise.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Dudley site team of bodyshop specialists (painters, panel beaters, MET technicians, estimators, admin).
• Plan workloads and resources to hit timescales and optimise profitability.
• Maintain customer satisfaction by resolving issues and ensuring smooth operations.

Job description

Job Title: Bodyshop Manager – Accident Repair Bodyshop

Location: Dudley, West Midlands, DY5

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 Dudley 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