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Manoj Chaminda

Manoj Chaminda

Auckland,Bayview

Summary

Successful Workshop Manager & Technical Support Manager with proven expertise to manage highly effective technical operations. My primary objective is to deliver high quality and timely service Right first time to clients with an efficient service team. Secure a responsible career opportunity to fully utilize my training and skills, technical expertise and experience in Luxury & Premium brands gained over 20 years, while making a significant contribution to the success of the company.

Overview

27
27
years of professional experience

Work History

Electrician

Burgers Motor Works
08.2023 - Current
  • Performed troubleshooting and diagnosis on European and Japanese Cars.
  • Diagnosed and repaired problems with electrical and mechanical systems.
  • Read and followed technical documentation to complete accurate repairs.
  • Serviced vehicle air conditioning systems
  • Tested vehicles after repairs and make sure all customer concerns are attended

WORKSHOP MANAGER & TECHNICAL SUPPORT MANAGER

Al Jenaibi International Automobiles L.L.C
01.2016 - 08.2023
  • BMW, MINI, Motorrad & Rolls-Royce Dealers, Al Qurum, Muscat, Sultanate Of Oman
  • Deliver high quality and timely service right first time
  • Deciding what actions to take resources are needed to achieve the set goals and targets
  • Establishing friendly environment in the work place to work together as a team to achieve organizational goals
  • Leading and guiding Team leaders / End Controllers / Workshop controller and motivating them by working closely with them and communicating with them regularly
  • Evaluate how well teams are achieving goals, improving performance, taking actions
  • Put processes in place to maintain BMW Dealer standards, measure, compare, and make decisions
  • Monitoring Repeat visit and Repeat repairs discussing with Service
  • Advisors and identifying the gaps taking necessary actions for improvement
  • Technical Support to workshop / Sales department and used car department and also Parts department when required (Explaining &
  • Demonstrating Product features and functions to internal and external customers
  • Get Involved in Diagnosis of any complicated issues and guide the team
  • Technical support to Legal Department (Dealing with Technical Experts nominated by Local Authority for Consumer Protection on legal cases)
  • Coordinating and Planning to complete technical campaigns / Delivery Stop Campaigns (Monitoring the Technical campaigns released by BMW and Rolls-Royce and completing them by ordering required parts, coordinating wit CRM department arranging vehicles to achieve higher completion rate)
  • Purchased and oversaw inventory of supplies, tools and equipment.
  • Identified areas in need of improvement and developed plans to correct problems.

WORKSHOP SUPERVISOR

Al Jenaibi International Automobiles L.L.C - BMW
12.2009 - 04.2015
  • BMW / MINI, Motorrad & Rolls-Royce Dealers, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
  • Main Responsibility as a Workshop Supervisor was to act as a mediator between Workshop Teams and Service Advisors and Managers to get an update of working Progress and pending vehicles & update repair status
  • Assisting Team leaders and Technicians with Diagnosis and trouble shooting
  • Recuse the turnaround time and get an update same day to Service Advisors about the work in progress vehicles
  • Raising PuMA cases to BMW Technical Support with any complicated vehicle issues and deals with technical support team

TEAM LEADER

Al Jenaibi Int'l Automobiles L.L.C
01.2005 - 12.2009
  • Promoted as a Team leader to a diagnostic team in 2005, As a team leader, Carried out various jobs like Scheduling Jobs, Diagnosis, and road test before and after the repairs, verifying estimates, creating
  • PuMA cases, assisting team members to follow warranty guidelines and maintain BMW standards, Road test with customers to understand complaints
  • Assigned Job Cards and distributed tasks to team members as of expertise
  • Managed team to achieve individual targets, Minimized Idle time, and "W"time to maintain productivity, efficiency and utilization
  • Engaged in continuous improvement activities to enhance team performance and productivity
  • Checking whether Technicians are following the BMW Standard and repair instructions and correct them if necessary.
  • Monitored team performance and provided constructive feedback to increase productivity and maintain quality standards.

BMW TECHNICIAN

Al Jenaibi International Automobiles L.L.C -
01.2002 - 02.2005
  • BMW / MINI / ROLLS-ROYCE Dealers in Oman
  • Started a new Workshop from the scratch with a small Service team since Al Jenaibi International Automobiles L.L.C was a new dealership, Received in house Training from BMW for 3 months to work on BMW & MINI motor vehicles
  • Trained how to use and maintain the Diagnosis and Programming tools like ISSS, OPPS, GT1, Radio Head, IMIB, KSD, ETK, Diagnostic tools and regular Software Updating Maintain all BMW i, special tools (regular updates of BMW Diagnosis and Measuring tools)
  • Responsible for Diagnosing all electrical and mechanical faults / Servicing Vehicles / All types of running repairs / Engine / Cylinder head overhauls / BMW approved retrofitting.

SENIOR TECHNICIAN

Oman Trading Establishment L.L.C
10.1996 - 01.2002
  • Worked in different vehicle divisions during this period.

1996 to 1998 – Worked with General Motor Vehicles like Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Suburban brands.

  • 1998 to 2000 – Worked with Subaru / Isuzu vehicle division.
  • 2000 to 2002 – Worked with Hyundai and KIA vehicle service division.-Periodic maintenance services - Aggregate overhauls - Electrical and electronic troubleshooting - Executed diagnostics, troubleshooting and evaluations by using Tech-1 & Tech 2, Worked on Recall Campaigns
  • Major Engine / Transmission / Differentials / Steering / Transferase repairs and overhauls in Chevrolet / Cadillac / Subaru / Isuzu and Hyundai vehicles

Education

HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA - AUTO MECHANIC - Special

Automobile Engineering Training Institute-A.E.T.I
Orugodawatta, Wellampitiya- Colombo

BMW Group Certifications
Germany - BMW A.G & Middle East Training Center
2022

Skills

  • Highly motivated and customer driven with the ability to solve problems and to make timely important decisions
  • BMW HV Certified for GEN- 30 to GEN- 50 Components / Electric Motor & HV Batteries EV vehicles / PHEV / Mild Hybrid and charging systems
  • Repair Knowledge of Electrical & Major Engine / Transmission / Transferase & Differential

Suspension & Steering repairs on BMW vehicles

  • Quality Control Guidelines
  • Escalation Management to BMW Technical support and to Internal and External customers
  • Engineering Team Support to workshop and customers
  • Hardware and Software Update of all BMW itools
  • Operations Oversight

Accomplishments

  • M
  • C
  • Proactive with a demonstratedeye for details and the abilityto manage multiple functions /projects while meetingdeadlines
  • Technical supportcoordination
  • Customer Handling
  • Team building
  • Performance reviewing
  • Emergency response
  • Preventive maintenance
  • Develop employee knowledge
  • Build successful teams
  • Schedule oversight
  • Vendor relations, Maintained highest Rolls-
  • Royce Car Park Retention Ratein middle east region
  • Consecutively last 5 years
  • Currently working as a Rolls-
  • Royce, Spector Expert for BEV
  • Readiness Charging
  • Requirements for Oman
  • Market
  • CERTIFICATIONS- BMW Certified Mechanic- BMW Group Certified Team
  • Leader- BMW Group Certified Team
  • Leader Execative- BMW Group Certified
  • Workshop Manager- BMW Group HV Gen- 3
  • Battery & Componnent
  • Certification BMW Group HV Gen -5
  • Battery, Componnents
  • Electric Mechine Certification
  • Attending all types of customer complaints (Meet customers tounderstand customer concerns)
  • Assisting and guiding warranty department (Monitoring Warranty claimrejections and resubmitting with proper technical explanations)
  • Identifing special tools required to order for new models and workingwith tool room incharge.

Timeline

Electrician

Burgers Motor Works
08.2023 - Current

WORKSHOP MANAGER & TECHNICAL SUPPORT MANAGER

Al Jenaibi International Automobiles L.L.C
01.2016 - 08.2023

WORKSHOP SUPERVISOR

Al Jenaibi International Automobiles L.L.C - BMW
12.2009 - 04.2015

TEAM LEADER

Al Jenaibi Int'l Automobiles L.L.C
01.2005 - 12.2009

BMW TECHNICIAN

Al Jenaibi International Automobiles L.L.C -
01.2002 - 02.2005

SENIOR TECHNICIAN

Oman Trading Establishment L.L.C
10.1996 - 01.2002

HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA - AUTO MECHANIC - Special

Automobile Engineering Training Institute-A.E.T.I

BMW Group Certifications
Manoj Chaminda