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Do you want to combine hands-on leadership with customer contact and daily inspections in a role where you truly make a difference? Then this job is for you! As a District Manager, you will have a central role in leading, developing, and ensuring quality in your district.

We are now looking for a District Manager for District South 5, which consists of:

• Värnamo
• Växjö
• Kalmar

About the role

As a District Manager for Vehicle Inspection, you have a central role in ensuring efficiency, quality, and safety in the daily operations within your district. You have both operational and economic responsibility and actively participate in production with inspections. Your responsibilities also include quality assurance, working environment, and customer relations, as well as follow-up and reporting on the business's performance.

Your main tasks include:

• Leading and distributing work within the district to ensure efficiency and quality.
• Responsible for maintaining a high service level and customer satisfaction.
• Conduct and follow up on employee interviews and participate in competence follow-up.
• Recruit, train, and develop staff within the district.
• Responsible for training and introduction of new services and products.
• Participate in production, maintain certificates, and inspect vehicles.
• Hold information meetings for staff regarding quality, technology, working environment, and economy.
• Build and maintain customer relations and be responsible for sales to corporate and private customers.
• Make decisions on local investments, purchases, and maintenance activities.

Your profile

This is a broad and responsible role for you who want to combine leadership with operational work and have an eye for both quality and customer relations. We are looking for you who are an inspiring leader with the ability to motivate and engage your employees. You are business-minded and have strong organizational skills that help you handle multiple tasks simultaneously and set the right priorities. As a communicative and trustworthy person, you are also skilled at building long-term relationships, both internally and externally.

Experience from vehicle inspection and/or technical vehicle control is a requirement.

To be eligible, you have:

• K1 Certificate (current or previous holders accepted).
• Driver's license (manual).
• Leadership qualities (previous experience in leadership is meritorious).
• Education in technology, preferably at upper secondary or university level.
• Access to a car.

We believe in diversity and inclusion and want to recruit employees with different perspectives, experiences, and competencies.

We offer you

• An stimulating work environment with good opportunities for personal development.
• Ongoing internal training.
• A team spirit, support from colleagues where we help each other in everyday life.
• Freedom to take responsibility and the opportunity to influence.
• Engaged leadership.
• Balanced work and leisure time.
• Occupational pension, fitness allowance, and benefit package from Benefits.

Since our start in 1925, we have made the world a little safer. Today, DEKRA is one of the most successful companies in the world in its industry. According to us, it is the employees who move us forward – your development is therefore worth investing in! Through internal and external training, your competence will constantly develop. With us, you become part of the DEKRA family with wonderful colleagues and competent leaders. Do you want to work at a company where your idea can become reality, regardless of position, then you have come to the right place.

Other information

Location: You start from your home station with travel to other stations in your district.

Scope: Permanent.

Salary: Individual salary setting.

Start: As agreed.

If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact Regional Manager Olof Sjöberg, contact details below. Selection is ongoing and the position may be filled before the application period ends.

DEKRA works for a safe and drug-free work environment. As part of our work environment efforts, we conduct random drug tests during the year.

Applications via email are not accepted due to GDPR.

Welcome with your application!