About the Role
Serve as the primary communicator between customers and technicians, developing estimates, writing repair orders, and ensuring a premium luxury customer experience. Drive strong customer pay labor and gross performance while maintaining exceptional CSI and revenue metrics.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the communicator and liaison between the customer and technician
- Develop estimates by costing materials, supplies, and labor; calculating customer's payment, including deductibles
- Write accurate, profitable, and complete repair orders based on both customer needs and technician recommendations
- Deliver a premium luxury customer experience every day
- Present inspection results with confidence to close work, build value, and maximize customer pay
- Drive strong customer pay labor per RO and gross performance
- Control timelines, approvals, and expectations
- Maintain exceptional CSI, retention, and revenue metrics
- Execute warranty and service processes with zero excuses
Requirements
- 2-3+ years of previous Service Advisor experience
- Lexus experience preferred
- Well-versed in using CDK
- Consistently high CSI and customer retention scores
- Courteous and professional communication skills
- Process driven, detail-oriented with strong accountability and a sense of urgency
- Solid automotive service knowledge
- Acceptable driving record and a valid driver's license in your state of residence
Skills
- Automotive service knowledge
- Customer service
- Communication skills
- Detail-oriented
- Process driven
- Accountability
- Sense of urgency
Location
- Orange County
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 2-3+ years
Education Level
- High school graduate or equivalent
Salary/Compensations
- $80,000 to $120,000+
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Medical, Dental and Vision Plans
- Paid Holidays & PTO
- Short and Long-Term Disability
- Paid Life Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Lithia Learning Center
- Vehicle Purchase Discounts
- Wellness Programs
About the Company
- Lithia & Driveway (NYSE: LAD) fuels success through high-performing teams delivering Auto Done Easy for customers.
- We create simple, transparent, and convenient customer experiences throughout the vehicle-ownership lifecycle.
- We leverage hundreds of store locations and key adjacencies - Driveway, DFC, and GreenCars.
- Our retail model champions entrepreneurial leadership, Growth Powered by People, and a strategy that creates possibilities and pushes us to reach our potential.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to equal employment opportunity (regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status).
- We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions.
