General Manager – Lake Worth, FL

General Manager – come join a winning team!

If your ideal job is to be with a company on the move, read on! This is your opportunity to join a winning team and showcase your management skills with a growing HVAC company. We are not just your ordinary air conditioning company. EDS Air Conditioning is a progressive company where we leverage technology, provide training and pride ourselves on the highest level of professionalism and workmanship. Serving the Palm Beach County and surrounding areas, EDS provides both residential and commercial comfort solutions to our customers. As our founder and President says, “we guarantee everything we do or my name is not Ed Sasso”.

Why EDS?

  • We are a progressive, tenacious and fun team – weekly football pools and ice cream included!
  • We invest in cutting edge technology to make our jobs easier – we are almost paperless and with the goal of being 100% paperless
  • We provide ongoing training for our technicians so they can become the best in the business
  • Our staff are all clean cut professionals and drug free
  • We do not sub-contract our work, ever
  • Our mantra is that failure is not an option

About the position:

The General Manager will be responsible for our Retail Division which offers sales, installation, and maintenance for our residential and commercial customers.   Primary responsibilities are to oversee all sales revenue, marketing strategies and trends, as well as motivating and training the retail staff of technicians and installers.

Snapshot of key accountabilities:

Management:

  • Hire, coach, mentor and supervise service, maintenance and installation technicians as well as sales personnel
  • Establish an efficiency rating system for all technicians at all levels
  • Generate a call back procedure and tracking system of the who’s, whys and how to avoid
  • Review and monitor all timecards and inventory disbursement for retail staff

Training:

  • Establish training schedule and calendar
  • Monitor and track attendance of training
  • Establish and submit monthly report to President of progress of staff
  • Establish training manual and update as necessary
  • Conduct ride- alongs with technicians and comfort consultants

Sales Management:

  • Review and establish bonus spreadsheet to be submitted weekly
  • Conduct sales calls on a regular basis with or without staff including follow up visits to ensure complete customer satisfaction
  • Oversee that all sales meet established gross margins criteria
  • Establish price book
  • Provide detailed lead report with source and closed sales on monthly and yearly basis
  • Provide sales revenue of each technician and comfort consultant on a monthly and yearly basis

Marketing:

  • Work with advertising team       on innovative ideas and marketing strategies

Traits required for success:

Our ideal candidate is a persuasive and friendly person who is liked by everyone. Your friendly and outgoing personality is natural for you and allows you to be a great teacher and motivator. This position requires a service oriented person who wants to make our customers happy and will go out of your way to do so. We work at a fast pace which you enjoy and are easily able to manage several projects at a time. Details and follow up are important to you as you are hands on and do not let anything fall through the cracks.

Skills/Experience/Knowledge:

  • Minimum 5 years experience in the HVAC industry in all aspects of the cycle from the sale to installation to ongoing customer service
  • Management experience of at least 5 technicians
  • Training experience is a must
  • Excellent sales skills as well as marketing visions
  • Comfortable speaking in front of groups (such as a Homeowners Association)
  • Proficient with MS Office (Word, Excel and Outlook)
  • Bilingual is of value