JOB VACANCY

A prominent car dealership is seeking an Automotive Technical Advisor/Director.

The ideal candidate must have a wide range of experience in the automotive field, as well as good written and oral communication skills.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for the delivery of job-specific training courses to the technicians.

• Responsible for the development and review of new training materials.

• Provide technical assistance to employees as needed.

• Provide on the job training for staff as needed.

• Measures effectiveness of training content and delivery.

• Set and monitor realistic and achievable service performance targets.

• Develops innovative and creative results based on interpretation and analysis that improve business performance and contributes to the goals and strategies of the company.

• Must have the necessary technical knowledge and the real world experience in the automotive field.

• Experienced teaching, coaching and/or facilitating in an automotive environment.

• Provides leadership, guidance and advice in the automotive field.

• Cultivates, develops, and manages strong and lasting customer relationships.

• Conduct analysis of market competitors, market conditions and campaign effectiveness.

• Target market development for periodic maintenance and repair work to target market segments.

• Conduct weekly analysis of key performance indicators (productivity, efficiency, labor utilization, labor sales, labor gross profit, parts sales/repair order, and expenses.

• Liaise with multiple manufacturers for KPI reporting (Key Performance Indicators)

• Liaise with multiple manufacturers on Technical Issues Quality issues.

• Liaise with multiple manufacturers for Campaign implementation completion.

• Oversee all Warranty, train and assist with all claims.

• Oversee all dealership tooling and Computer related software.

• Introduce, Implement, monitor manufacture trainings.

• Oversee Customer Service team operation and training.

REQUIREMENTS:

• College degree or its equivalent.

• ASE certification/ equivalent preferred.

• Qualified as a certified trainer in the automotive technical field.

• Ten years’ experience in working in a multi-franchise dealership environment.

• Qualification as a certified auditor in the automotive field.

• City & Guilds Automotive Licentiateship qualification.

• Knowledgeable and experienced in service operations.

• Hybrid and Electric vehicle certification or working towards qualification.

• Warranty administration to Expert level.

• ASE certification to Master level or equivalent.

(Note: Must be current)

• Strong leadership and management skills.

• Excellent customer service skills.

• Good interpersonal skills.

• The capacity to work with, develop and lead the team.

• The ability to work under pressure.

• Computer literate.

BENEFITS OFFERED ARE:

• An attractive compensation package which includes Group Medical and Pension Plan benefits.

• Continuous training.

Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Interested persons should send resumes and supporting documents to: P.O. Box N-9240, Nassau, Bahamas or email: mediavacancy242@gmail.com of communication open,” Austin said at a Pentagon press briefing. “I think it’s really key that we’re able to pick up the phone and engage each other. And I think that that will help to prevent miscalculation going forward.”

All applications must be submitted on or before: March 24, 2023.

The US military said it ditched the Air Force MQ-9 Reaper in the sea after a Russian fighter jet poured fuel on the surveillance drone and then struck its propeller while it was flying in international airspace. Russia has denied that it caused the accident. The US has said it was working on declassifying surveillance footage from the drone that would show Tuesday’s crash.

That the top US and Russian defence and military leaders were talking so soon after the incident underscored the seriousness of the encounter over the Black Sea and that both sides recognized the need to tamp down the risks of escalation. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, contact between US and Russian military leaders has been limited, with Russian officials refusing to take US military calls in the early months of the war.

There are still questions as to whether Russia meant to down the drone, even though the moments that led up to its crash were “intentional,” said Milley, who stood alongside Austin at the briefing.

“We know that the intercept was intentional. We know that the aggressive behaviour was intentional,” Milley said.

However, he told reporters that it was still unclear whether the collision itself was intentional. And he pushed back against Russia’s contention that the fighter jets did not come in contact with the drone.

“We have absolute evidence of the contact,” Milley said. “It’s very aggressive. ... We have video evidence and all that.”

Milley and Austin also left open the possibility that the US could try to recover portions of the downed $32 million drone, which Milley said crashed into waters that were 4,000 to 5,000 feet (1,200 to 1,500 meters) deep.

Other US officials said the US doesn’t have military ships in the region, and won’t likely seek to recover wreckage. The Black Sea has been closed since early 2022 to military vessels that do not have a home port along its shores.

The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide details not yet made public, said Russia has already sent ships to the area and attempted to recover pieces of the drone.

Milley downplayed the significance of any potential recovery by Russia.

“It probably broke up. There’s probably not a lot to recover,” he said. “As far as the loss of anything of sensitive intelligence, etc. ... we would take — and we did take — mitigating measures. So we’re quite confident that whatever was of value is no longer of value.”

US officials have refused to detail what steps were taken to protect sensitive technology on the drone or the video it collected during its surveillance mission. But officials have long acknowledged that the US can remotely remove sensitive information from high-tech drones and make systems inoperable so they aren’t of much value.

Milley and Austin also said the incident would not stop the US from flying wherever international law allows.

Details of Milley’s call with Gerasimov would be kept private, Joint Staff spokesman Army Col. Dave Butler said in a statement. Gerasimov was named the new commander of the Russian forces in Ukraine in January and its previous commander demoted in an apparent sign of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s dissatisfaction with the state of the war, which has been stalemated.

If the call between Austin and Shoigu was de-escalatory in private, it was not apparent from Russia’s public statements. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters earlier Wednesday that Russia has declared certain areas of the Black Sea off-limits to any aerial traffic during the conflict and suggested the US was trying to provoke an escalation through the flights. The drone crashed near Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, which Russia seized in 2014 and illegally annexed.

“Any incidents that could provoke confrontation between the two great powers, the two largest nuclear powers, raise very serious risks,” Lavrov said. The Russian Defence Ministry said Shoigu, in the call with Austin, noted that the flights of US drones near Crimea were “provocative” and risked escalating tensions in the Black Sea. He said Russia would respond “in kind to all provocations” in the future, but also noted that the two nuclear powers must act responsibly and maintain channels of communication.

Asked about the call, Austin declined to provide any details.

Austin and Shoigu first spoke about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in May 2022. At the time it was the highest level US-Russian contact of the war.

In October, they spoke twice in three days as the threat of an escalation was high. Shoigu had accused Ukraine of planning to use a dirty bomb, a claim that was strongly rejected by US and Western allies, who accused Russia of seeking a false pretext to justify further escalation, potentially including the use of a tactical nuclear weapon.