The JobSquad Solutions Team is currently looking for a General Manager of Service to work at a company located in the Fort Lauderdale, FL area!
Job Title: General Manager of Service
Job Location: Ft Lauderdale
Pay and Hours for Job + Benefits:
$100k - $110K
Job Description:
Leadership & People Development
- Lead, mentor, and develop the Service Manager, CSR Manager, and Service Analyst to ensure high performance, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Promote a high-performance culture grounded in accountability, results, teamwork, safety, and customer focus.
- Support the Service Manager in developing field technicians and warehouse operations by guiding priorities and reinforcing standards.
- Assess talent needs and ensure development through training, coaching, and strategic hiring.
- Reinforce consistent operational processes and best practices across the region in collaboration with other service leaders.
Operational Excellence
- Oversee overall service operations at a strategic level, ensuring the team delivers timely, high-quality service across Dade and Broward.
- Ensure the Service Manager, CSR Manager, and Service Analyst maintain strong scheduling, labor planning, dispatch coordination, PM execution, billing accuracy, and customer support.
- Drive standardization and continuous process improvement to increase efficiency, consistency, and operational reliability.
- Support resolution of escalated customer issues with urgency and professionalism in partnership with the Service Manager and CSR Manager.
- Champion the adoption of digital tools and workflow modernization to enhance field documentation, transparency, and productivity.
Financial & Business Management
- Own full P&L responsibility for the Dade and Broward service business.
- Develop and execute annual operating plans, revenue goals, and margin expectations.
- Monitor key metrics including labor utilization, materials cost, inventory, backlog, DSO, PM compliance, and service profitability.
- Support collections efforts on overdue accounts and maintain strong communication with Finance.
- Ensure proper pricing governance for materials, labor rates, and refrigerant.
- Drive service business growth by partnering with Sales and supporting the Service Manager in lead generation, repair opportunities, and PM agreement expansion.
Customer & Account Management
- Serve as a senior point of contact for key accounts, ensuring long-term relationships, high service satisfaction, and strategic alignment.
- Conduct site visits, customer meetings, and quarterly business reviews (QBRs) with major clients as needed.
- Maintain strong, trust-based relationships focused on reliability, quality, and responsiveness.
Safety & Compliance
- Promote a proactive safety culture in alignment with company policies.
- Ensure the Service Manager and field teams meet safety expectations, documentation requirements, and regulatory compliance related to refrigerants, equipment, and field practices.
- Participate in safety initiatives, audits, incident reviews, and corrective action planning as needed.
Strategic Leadership
- Contribute to the company’s overall strategic direction as a member of the leadership team.
- Drive process improvement, service modernization, and cross-department alignment to strengthen the business.
- Champion new technologies, digital workflows, and best practices from across the company
- Identify emerging trends, customer needs, and regional opportunities for service growth.
- Qualifications
- Minimum 10 years of commercial HVAC service experience in a mechanical contracting environment.
- Minimum 3–5 years of leadership experience.
- Proven success managing service operations with P&L accountability.
- Strong leadership, coaching, and talent-development skills.
- Experience leading process improvement and implementing operational best practices.
- Excellent communication, customer service, and relationship-building skills.
- High proficiency in Microsoft Office and service management software; experience with COINS, and XOi preferred.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities.
- Valid driver’s license; ability to travel across Dade/Broward counties.
- Full-time, on-site presence is required due to the hands-on nature of this role, which demands daily interaction with service, dispatch, billing, field leadership, and customer relationships.
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