What are the responsibilities and job description for the Automotive Detail Shop Assistant Manager position at Xcite Automotive?
Xcite Automotive is seeking an Automotive Detail Shop Assistant Manager for our partner dealers in Elizabeth City, North Carolina
Job Description: This role supports daily detailing production, leads technicians, and ensures all vehicles meet dealership-ready quality standards. The Assistant Manager helps drive workflow efficiency, maintain operational compliance, and uphold performance expectations within a fast-paced reconditioning environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Support daily detailing production in a high-volume dealership environment
- Lead, train, and hold detail technicians accountable to quality standards
- Perform hands-on interior and exterior detailing, including paint correction and polishing as needed
- Conduct final quality control inspections prior to vehicle delivery
- Monitor workflow efficiency, turnaround times, and shop productivity
- Enforce safety and operational compliance standards
Required Qualifications
- 2 years of professional automotive detailing experience (dealership, body shop, collision center, or reconditioning facility)
- Prior experience as a Lead Detailer, Shop Supervisor, or Assistant Manager
- Strong knowledge of paint correction, buffing, polishing, and interior reconditioning techniques
- Experience working in a fast-paced, production-driven environment
- Ability to perform physical job duties including standing, bending, lifting, and working indoors and outdoors
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a high-volume dealership reconditioning or service department
- Prior responsibility for managing production workflow or turnaround metrics
- Experience training or mentoring detail technicians
- Background as a Recon Supervisor or Collision Center production lead
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive compensation based on experience
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid time off
- Advancement opportunities within Xcite Automotive
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Company Description: Xcite Automotive is a fast-growing automotive service and a software-based company that helps dealers get vehicles frontline-ready quickly and efficiently. Since 2007, Xcite Automotive has been on a mission to make the automotive industry faster, more innovative, and more profitable. Over 1,300 automobile dealers nationwide rely on Xcite’s team of 1000 employees to provide on-site vehicle marketing and reconditioning solutions.
Additional Information: Xcite Automotive provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or orientation. In addition to federal law requirements, we comply with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.
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