Repair Superintendent

Founded in 1910KONEis a global leader that provides elevators escalators and automatic building doors as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our worlds cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make peoples journeys safe convenient and reliable.
Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as aninnovation and sustainabilityleader with repeatedrecognitions byForbesCorporate Knights for clean capitalism and others.

Repair Supevisor who would be responsible for the profitable operation of a Branch Office Repair Business. This includes the direct supervision of all related repair activity union and non-union personnel as well as accomplishing goals for quality and customer satisfaction.

Essential Functions:

• Direct workers (repair mechanics helpers and repair crews) concerned with elevator and escalator repair projects.

• Supervise work performance and manpower qualifications to keep performance time travel time and expenses to a minimum. Keep actual costs within pre-calc labor and material estimates.

• Review material orders. Minimize overnight shipments.

• Ensure that mechanics comply with reporting procedures (proper time reporting assignment of labor and expenses to correct job number service ticket transmittal on-site customer check-in and check-out).

• Communicate with customers directly and service department personnel to coordinate job scheduling and re-scheduling of missed appointments.

• Conduct repair meetings once a month with the Service Manager.

• Ensure all time tickets are accurate. Check and approve all repair time tickets and invoices for vendors materials.

• Maintain accurate record of scheduled repair work. Utilize best business practices to prioritize and schedule future repair projects based on customer needs available resources code compliance impending fines or penalties passenger safety and contractual obligations.

• Follow up any work performed to correct written violations or deficiency lists with written notification to the proper party / authorities that work is complete.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Inspect repair job sites periodically to insure that they are being maintained in accordance with KONE Inc. policies and standards.

• Assure repairs made on all jobs comply with contract agreement.

• Maintain required tools in tool inventory to efficiently and profitably complete repair jobs.

• Assist the Service Manager with recommendations for hiring and training of repair personnel.

• Order materials for repair jobs to be available for crews when work is scheduled.

• Check Service and Work Orders and final processing of completion notices to insure that all time purchase orders and material orders are posted before approving for billing or closing out non-billable work.

• Review all IBM contractual service reports to insure proper gross profit level (45-50%). Control service labor and material cost to insure costs stay within labor and material budget guidelines.

Education:
A two-year college level degree and/or equivalent combination of technical and management experience in elevator/escalator or related industry.

Experience:
3 years ofexperience in the elevator or related industry.

Specific Knowledge Skills & Behaviors:

• Experience in maintenance/repair within the elevator/escalator or related industry.

• Familiarity with electrical mechanical and hydraulic systems as applied in industry transportation and/or conveyance systems.

• Experience or ability to learn PC database spreadsheet scheduling project management communication and word processing applications.

• Willing and able to travel with occasional extended over night stay. Automobile drivers license and frequent day travel required within branch office jurisdictional area.

• Good leadership supervisory organizational written verbal communication and customer skills.

• Ability to read analyze and interpret general business and technical procedures or governmental regulations.

• Ability to write reports business correspondence and procedures.

• Ability to read construction drawings layouts and electrical hydraulic schematics.

• Ability to effectively present business information and respond to questions from groups of managers clients customer and the general public.

• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.

• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions percentages ratios and proportions to practical situations.

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written oral diagram or schedule form.

• While performing the duties of this job the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; to use hands to finger handle or feel objects or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop kneel couch or crawl; and talk hear or see. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

• While performing the duties of this job the employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high precarious places; and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.