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Service Advisor

Auto Surgeon

Lansing, MIJobSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago

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Compensation
No compensation found
Location
Lansing, MI
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Auto Surgeon is seeking a Service Advisor to manage customers from vehicle check-in through pickup and drive shop production. The role involves presenting inspection findings and repair recommendations, coordinating tickets with technicians, and following up on deferred work. The shop uses Tekmetric digital inspections and offers an hourly base plus commission, paid time off, and a 401(k) with company match.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Service AdvisingRepair PresentationOrganizationPerformance TrackingTekmetric

Qualifications

Service Advisor or Writer Experience

Benefits

Paid Time Off
401(k) Match

Full job description

Our advisors run the front counter and drive the shop's production. You'll own every customer from check-in to pickup, present the full inspection on every ticket, and get paid on what you sell. If you're good at this work and want a shop that backs you with skilled techs and real inspections, let's talk. ## Who We Are Auto Surgeon is part of the 517 Auto Care family in Greater Lansing. We run a busy mechanical shop with a steady car count, skilled technicians, and Tekmetric digital inspections that give you real work to present. ## What You'll Do - Check in every vehicle and capture the customer's concern accurately - Build estimates from the inspection findings, complete and clear - Present every recommendation to every customer, in plain language - Keep every open ticket moving from estimate to approval to pickup - Work with the technicians and shop foreman to keep the schedule on track - Follow up on deferred work before the customer's next visit ## What We're Looking For - Service advisor or service writer experience in a busy shop - Comfortable presenting repairs, including expensive or unexpected ones - Organized enough that nothing falls through the cracks - You track your own numbers: ARO, closing rate and follow-up - Reliable, every scheduled day - Tekmetric experience is a plus ## Pay and Perks - Hourly base plus commission, so your production shows up in your paycheck - Paid time off - 401(k) with company match - Uniform, boot and tool programs - Skilled techs producing complete inspections, so you have real work to sell - Repeat customers who already trust the shop ## You'll Do Well Here If You like owning results, you would rather have a hard conversation than avoid one, and you want to be measured on what you produce.

How this job compares

Set against the 669 open Service Advisor jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • US median$50–75K/yr271 salary ranges
  • US median$19–27/hr139 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 20 open Service Advisor jobs in Michigan and 669 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Michigan
Experience
Service Advisor postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (114 postings).
Education
2 of the 669 open Service Advisor jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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