Job: Fabrication Administrator

Contract: Permanent

Based: Ashford, Kent

Hours: 40 hours per week, working Monday to Friday 8.00am - 5.00pm

Salary: Dependent on skills and experience

Channel Commercials PLC is a leading commercial vehicle dealer providing sales, parts and servicing for DAF Trucks and light commercial vehicles and vans in the South-East.

Are you outgoing? Friendly? Enjoy liaising with customers? If so then we have an exciting opportunity for you to work on our busy Ashford Fabrication Department.

Key responsibilities include: -

• Dealing with incoming enquiries.
• Handling Fabrication bookings & workshop queries
  • Fabrication parts procurement
  • Fabrication parts ordering
• General Fabrication administration tasks.
• Customer order number requests & issues.
• Estimating
• Sales WIP invoicing
• Workshop planning, loading & progress.
• Sales job card production / part ordering & input onto DAFCheck.
• Tacho bookings / job card production & electronic calendar input.
• Dispatch / Warranty & follow up.
• Liaising daily / weekly with fab technicians.
• Calibrated equipment requirement / condition & certification.
• Tooling requirement / condition & issue.
• PPE requirement / condition & issue.
• Health & Safety / Safe Systems Of Work (SSOW).
• Staff training / requirements & certification.
• Requesting covering order numbers for the scheduled maintenance
• Raise single point WIP and supporting service history WIPs for the month.
• Any other reasonable tasks as requested

Essential Qualities include:-

• Good IT skills including Word and Excel
• Good literacy and numeracy skills
• Previous experience of working in an admin role
• Experience of dealing with customers both on the telephone and face to face
• Good communication skills (written, face to face, telephone & email
• Methodical with good organisational, planning and follow up skills
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Interpersonal skills with the ability to liaise with all levels of staff and directors
• Ability to deal with customers in difficult situations
• Be able to work unsupervised and under pressure
• Ability to be self-disciplined and use own initiative
• Ability to prioritise workloads
• Confident, professional manner

Desirable Qualities include:-

• GCSEs (or equivalent) in Maths and English at Grade C/4 or above
• Experience/knowledge of Kerridge (although full training will be given)
• A basic understanding of vehicle terminology
• Experience of working in a busy environment

To apply, please attach a CV below along with a covering letter detailing your salary expectations.

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