Vehicle Damage Assessor required for a Repair Centre in Middlesbrough

Salary DOE £35-40k basic + Bonus

As a Vehicle Damage Assessor, you will produce accurate invoices and estimates to meet all required SLA Cost Control, to maintain effective control of estimating costs in line with budget objectives.

Responsibilities of a Vehicle Damage Assessor will include:

* Ensure the efficient and profitable costing of each repair

* Produce timely and accurate invoices and estimates of each repair to meet key to key and lifecycle target requirement. - timescale etc.

* Maintain effective control of invoicing costs in line with partners budget objectives

* Support each site, wherever necessary, to ensure smooth site level operation and maintain high customer service (total loss's, estimates etc)

* Carry out initial parts assessments (IPA's) to reduce key to key & lifecycle times and maintain high customer service

* Responsible for ensuring all repair methodology is in line with BS10125 standards

* Comply with any reasonable directive from the management team

* Identify cases that have not complied with ABL ethos and cases that have shown loss of profit and feed back to management

* Support with quality of repair complaints where necessary

* Identify and handle any total loss cases as applicable to SLA requirements

Skills and experience required as a Vehicle Damage Assessor:

* Technical skills, knowledge and experience of body and paint repair in the retail Accident and Repair industry

* Technical and estimating experience

* To attain ATA accreditation if required by the company

* Knowledge of current estimating systems i.e. Audatex, Glassmatix

* Knowledge of E-scribe, Glass's evaluator, Ezi methods or other

* Good negotiation skills

* Audatex Gold annual training

* Are a team player with a can do attitude

* Have cultural and organisational knowledge

* Have technical skills, knowledge and experience of body and paint repair in the retail motor industry

* Have up-to-date knowledge of vehicle legislation, consumer legislation and trade practices

Apply now with your full CV to Chloe at WeRecruit Auto quoting job reference ST1610

Automotive - Motor Trade - Bodyshop - Crash Repair Centre - Accident Repair Centre - ARC - Bodyshop Technician - Bodyshop VDA - Estimator- Vehicle Damage Assessor - Bodyshop - Middlesbrough- Darlington- Catterick-Thornaby - Full Time - Permanent - Job

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Should your skills and experience match what our client is looking for, we will contact you before proceeding with your application, either via phone or e-mail initially. Unfortunately we are unable to contact all applicants due to the volume of applications so if you do not hear from us within 5 working days please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. If you have relevant industry experience we may store your details for future opportunities