Workshop Planner | Al-Futtaim Automotive | Toyota

Job description / Role

Overview of the Role

Are you ready to play a crucial role in an innovative, fast-paced workshop environment?

Al Futtaim Motors - Toyota is looking for an experienced Workshop Planner to join our team in Al Ain. As a Workshop Planner, you'll be the key player in allocating technical jobs to the right technicians, ensuring the seamless alignment of job requirements with technical skillsets. You will be at the heart of workshop operations, ensuring optimal efficiency and timely delivery of vehicles to our customers.

What You Will Do

• Job Allocation: Assign jobs to technicians based on their skillsets and job requirements to optimize workflow.
• Monitor Job Progress: Keep track of the technician planning board and Job Progress Control Board, and report any concerns to the workshop manager.
• Efficiency & Utilization: Ensure fair distribution of tasks and achieve technician utilization and efficiency targets.
• FIR Process: Ensure adherence to the Fix It Right (FIR) process to meet performance targets.
• Timely Job Closure: Ensure allocated jobs are completed within the scheduled time and meet quality standards.
• Time Clocking: Maintain precise time clocking and escalate issues when necessary.
• On-Time Vehicle Delivery: Keep the Service Advisor updated on vehicle progress to guarantee on-time delivery.

Required Skills to Be Successful

• 2-3 years of experience as a Workshop Controller or Workshop Planner in an automobile dealership.
• Expertise in allocating jobs to technicians based on their skill level and job requirements.
• Ability to write detailed technical reports.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

About the Team

You will report directly to the Aftersales Manager, collaborating closely with Technicians and Service Advisors daily. Your role will involve constant communication with various departments, ensuring smooth operation and a high level of customer satisfaction. Your efforts will directly impact the overall success of the workshop and our customer service excellence.

What Equips You for the Role

• Diploma in Automobile or Mechanical Engineering.
• Experience as a Diagnostic Technician or equivalent.
• Strong communication skills (both written and verbal).
• UAE driving license (advantageous but not mandatory).

About Al-Futtaim Automotive

A major division of the UAE-based Al-Futtaim Group of companies, Al-Futtaim Automotive is an industry leader with presence in 10 countries across the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Our core business activities at Al-Futtaim Automotive include distribution, manufacturing, leasing and aftersales, and we are firmly established as the regional representative of some of the world's most iconic automotive brands: Toyota, Lexus, Honda, Jeep, Chrysler, Dodge, Volvo and RAM.

We are driven by a customer-centric approach, constantly pushing the boundaries on innovation, quality standards, and value-added service across our vast universe of customers - right from motoring enthusiasts to fleet operators to contractors. Our mission is to become the leader in custom-made mobility solutions by delivering nothing less than world-class omni-channel experiences.

We channel our local expertise and global trust to deliver one of the most comprehensive portfolios of mobility products and solutions, from passenger cars to SUVs, electric vehicles to high-performance motorbikes, commercial vehicles to industrial and construction equipment. What keeps the company moving forward is a 9000-member strong team, with inspiring possibilities for growth, throughout the career path. This is Al-Futtaim Automotive and we empower talent to move forward.

About the Company

Established in the 1930's, the Al-Futtaim Group initially operated as a trading enterprise. Rapid development throughout the 1940's and 50's saw it establish itself regionally as an integrated commercial, industrial and services organisation, positioning itself one of the leading business houses in the lower Gulf region. Today, it operates collectively over 40 companies bearing the Al-Futtaim name, dominates many market segments in the UAE, and has expanded its sphere of operation to include Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Egypt.

The Group comprises a diverse range of strategically positioned operating subsidiaries and associate companies, structured to give the Al-Futtaim Group the flexibility and versatility to keep ahead of local competition while keeping pace with the ever-evolving global business scenario. The Groups continued investment in world-class systems technology is clear evidence of its commitment to maintain leading edge performance and service delivery.

The success of the Al-Futtaim Group can be attributed to a business approach that combines the ability to change with the traditional values of integrity, service and social responsibility that define its core business philosophy. This, linked with the Groups belief in decentralisation, gives the heads of the operating companies a high degree of functional autonomy and authority, providing the Group with essential flexibility, and individual employees a clearly defined work culture and sense of responsibility.