Our client, a well-known electric vehicle company is urgently looking to hire a Vehicle Operations Specialist to join their team ON SITE in Austin, TX!
** This is a 3+ month contract on W2 offering a full benefits package **
Responsibilities
- Ensure quality standards through washing vehicles exterior and cleaning/preparing vehicles interior
- Shuttling vehicles to/from secondary locations including customer and fleet vehicles
- Facilitate vehicles through the pre-delivery inspection process - (cosmetic inspection of vehicle, dynamic test drive and assessment of vehicle, compressed air tool use, as well as torque wrench utilization)
- Proficiency with computers and software including Microsoft Office and internal business platforms
- Conduct quality control processes for delivery ready vehicles and manage the communication of defects to the service department
- Maintain the delivery readiness of vehicles
- Maintain the inventory lot, ensuring that there are always safe and usable drive lanes
- Prepare, inspect, and stage customer trade-ins to be transported to the auction via carrier
- Complete additional work and tasks as requested by the leadership team
Qualifications
- 1+ years of experience with operations, logistics, or lot management; previous automotive, electric vehicle (EV), and/or detailing experience valued
- Experience in service industry writing work orders is preferred
- Must be at least 21 years of age
- High School Diploma or GED required
- Ability to work a flexible schedule to support customers on nights, weekends and/or holidays
- Must have a valid driver’s license in the state/province of residence that you will be driving/operating a vehicle (or state that you are commuting daily to/from)
- No drug or alcohol related driving incidents in the last 3 years; No more than 1 serious moving violation in the last 3 years; No driving related suspensions or revocation of Driver License within a 3-5 year period
- Will be subject to continuous Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) monitoring
- Willingness to work holidays, nights, evenings, and weekends as needed
Physical Requirements
- Willingness to work in various working conditions including being in an active service center or unpredictable weather conditions
- Physical exertion may be required to perform occupational tasks (sitting up to two or more hours at a time, standing for up to eight or more hours a day, walking, bending, kneeling, laying, twisting, carrying, reaching, stretching, pushing, pulling, and lifting up to 50 lbs.)
- Frequent use of hands for purposes of grasping and using tools correctly, entering data, writing communications, or calling customers or internal partners
- Strong understanding of written and spoken English
- Ability to see, read, and interpret documents such as governmental regulations, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions/schematics