Automotive Service Advisor

Ken Garff Automotive Group; Cathedral City (CA); On-site; USD 57,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with company match

Paid time off

Employee discounts on vehicle purchase

Health, dental, vision insurance

Year-end bonus

Job summary

Ken Garff Honda of the Desert, a Ken Garff Automotive Dealership, is seeking a Service Advisor to greet customers, assess service needs, and provide timely updates and estimates. You will work in a fast-paced environment and leverage a DMS to manage service history and appointments.

The role emphasizes customer service excellence, teamwork, and precise work order processing, with a compensation package that includes base pay, commissions, and incentives.

Qualifications

• Friendly and cooperative demeanor with ability to connect with customers.
• Must be motivated, patient, and a cooperative team worker.
• Analytical and precise in completing service estimates and work orders.

Responsibilities

• Greet customers promptly and professionally.
• Provide updates, estimates, and inspection results.
• Ask questions to identify service needs and upsell when appropriate.
• Review completed work and collect payments.
• Utilize DMS to look up service history and schedule appointments.

Skills

Relationship building

Customer service

Communication skills

Team player

Adaptability

Tools

DMS software

Job description

Considering a career with Ken Garff Automotive Group means you are in for a great ride (excuse the car metaphor)! We’re not your standard dealership or group of dealerships and we are pretty darn proud of that. We are out to do things differently and want to consistently change, grow, and progress. For that reason, our employees are proud of where they work! Honda of the Desert, a Ken Garff Automotive Dealership, is currently looking for a Service Advisor that aligns with our core values and acts with respect, integrity, growth, humility and teamwork.

Looking for:

• Friendly and cooperative demeanor; quick to connect and build relationships with others
• Unselfish and approachable with a preference for exciting, fast-paced work
• Motivated, patient, conscientious, relaxed and cooperative team worker
• Accommodating and analytical, while producing highly precise and accurate work

Why you’ll love working with us:

• Competitive compensation package and 401k with company match Average Salary Range: $4,000-$8500/monthly +(includes base pay, commissions and/bonuses, incentives)** Wellness Time Off, plus holidays, plus a Personal Purpose Day Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability Insurance, AD&D and Life Insurance Flex Spending, Health Savings Account, EAP, Wellness Plan, Mental Health Support, Diabetes Management Program, and Parental Leave Stipend Year-end bonus program for ALL employees (Garff Giveback) Employee discounts on vehicle purchase, parts, service and more! **The pay scale above is the compensation range that the Company reasonably expects to pay for this position. Within this range, individual pay is determined by several factors including, but not limited to, specific skills, relevant work experience, relevant education and/or training, and performance related bonuses and incentives.

What you’ll do as a Service Advisor:

• Greet all customers promptly and professionally
• Provide excellent customer service by listening to customer inquiries and requests, asking questions to identify service needs, resolving concerns, and sell additional services when appropriate
• Provide customers with updates, estimates, and inspection results in a timely manner
• Answer customer telephone calls promptly, courteously, and make every effort to satisfy the caller’s inquiry Review all completed work and recommendations and collect payments from customer
• Proficient knowledge in Dealer Management System (DMS) and any other essential software programs to look up customer’s service history, schedule appointments, enter repair order information, and manage information
• Provide excellent service and review the customer satisfaction survey to each customer

At first glance, there’s nothing remarkable at Ken Garff. Our uniforms aren’t flashy, and our buildings look a lot like the competition. You may not see it right at first, but if you listen you’ll hear. Because listening isn’t just something we do; it’s part of who we are. It’s how we show that what we absolutely value the most (far more than buildings, uniforms or cars) is our people. And we thrive on treating them right. We listen because we believe listening matters. We’re just different that way.

Will you join us as a new Service Advisor? Will you throw your energy and focus behind what we’re doing? Will you live our values and do things differently than you’ve ever done them? Will you listen and build trust and foster relationships? This organization, that started as an idea by a man named Ken Garff way back in 1932, needs one thing to keep its vision intact and its purpose of reinventing an industry moving forward. It needs you. You're in for a great ride (excuse the car metaphor) We're not your standard dealership or group of dealerships and we're pretty darn proud of that. We're out to do things differently. We want to consistently change, grow, and progress. For that reason, our employees are proud of where they work. Our history is rich in the tradition of doing things differently. It began with Ken Garff himself. It continued through all of those who followed Ken and is alive and thriving today.