Your responsibilities will include;

· Working with manufacturer and aftermarket parts diagrams to identify and source a wide variety of parts for vintage/classic vehicles through to 'future classics'

· Producing detailed customer estimates/parts for mechanical and bodyshop jobs including liaising with the bodyshop, workshop and restoration departments as required

· Project management of vehicle and parts restoration, ensuring all parts flow through the business efficiently and items are stored/logged correctly on our stock control system

· Assisting with work scheduling and ensuring the service department is operating efficiently

· Monitoring weekly and monthly invoicing targets, monitoring staff hours, raising customer invoices/logging all customer payments

· Raising purchase orders for management approval, logging all purchases on accounting system as required

· Ensuring all vehicle parts and consumables/one-off costs are charged out correctly to their respective jobs as required

· Managing stock levels, periodic stock checks and ensuring all parts are stored in an organised manner

· Ensuring all goods in/out are managed correctly, returns are processed swiftly, ensuring items sent for outsourced works are logged/managed correctly

· Assisting the restoration department with organisation and planning the restoration of all vehicle components (in-house and outsourced)

· Overseeing all vehicle parts sales (new and used) including photographing, cataloguing and listing items for sale, ensuring sold items are packaged correctly/shipped quickly along with assisting in the development of a new online parts shop

· Assisting the general manager with ‘front of house tasks’, call answering and general day to day administration tasks as required by the business/covering holidays

Key Skills for this role include;

· Excellent IT skills and experience with dealer management or project management software packages, MS office suite/outlook

· Experience with creating highly detailed customer facing estimates for automotive service and repair works (highly detailed)

· Experience working with dealer and aftermarket parts diagrams/systems and parts ordering

· Experience working with inventory management systems including bill of materials structures

· Detailed knowledge of aftermarket parts brands and product ranges, knowledge of workshop and bodyshop consumables

· Extremely high level of attention to detail, excellent communication and organisational skills

· All candidates must be highly literate and able to provide a high level of customer service and work effectively within a team

Desirable experience for this role would include;

· Premium brand or automotive restoration experience (main dealer or independent)

· Project management experience or qualifications

· Experience with online sales platforms such as Shopify, Ebay, Amazon or similar and set up/operation of an online shop

· Experience managing business social media pages including scheduling routine updates/posts

Salary £27,500 - £35,000 per annum, dependent on experience.

Send an email with a current CV & covering letter to: careers@retroclassicengineering.co.uk