Service Advisor Jobs & Recruitment

Explore service advisor and senior service advisor jobs across the UK with Flame Recruitment. Compare customer responsibilities, basic salary, bonus and working hours. Permanent and fixed-term opportunities are identified in each advert.

Current service advisor jobs

• Service Advisor — Worthing, West Sussex — 31k basic, 40k OTE + benefits
• Service Advisor — Brighton, East Sussex — 31k basic, 40k OTE + benefits
• Service Advisor — Oxford, Oxfordshire — 34k basic, 37k OTE & benefits
• Service Advisor — Bristol, Bristol — 30k basic, 37k OTE + benefits (shown below)
• Service Advisor — Hull, Yorkshire — 30k basic, 34k OTE + benefits (shown below)
• Service Advisor — Hereford, Herefordshire — 30k basic, 40k OTE + benefits

View current service advisor jobs. Enter your postcode and travel radius to compare advertised roles near you.

What a service advisor role involves

Current employer briefs include welcoming customers, confirming appointments, scheduling workshop visits and explaining repairs, costs and timescales. Advisors keep customers updated while vehicles are in the workshop, maintain accurate records, prepare invoices and handle payments. Some roles also involve vehicle health check recommendations, service plans and follow-up contact.

The best preparation is to understand the operation. Ask about daily booking volumes, the size of the team, the workshop controller’s role and how estimates or additional work are authorised. A busy franchised dealership and a smaller independent workshop can offer quite different responsibilities.

Experience and skills employers request

Our briefs commonly ask for motor-trade customer service experience, clear verbal and written communication, confidence using digital systems and an organised approach under pressure. Driving-licence requirements and previous dealership experience vary by vacancy. Explain the systems you know and give practical examples of managing bookings, handling a difficult conversation and keeping customers informed.

Commercial awareness should go alongside clear, appropriate advice. Be ready to describe how you explain technician recommendations, gain customer approval and maintain accurate records. Keep examples truthful and avoid sharing confidential customer information in your application.

Compare basic salary, bonus and rota

Check the guaranteed basic salary separately from OTE. Ask how bonus is earned, which targets apply and whether any guarantee is temporary. Confirm weekday start and finish times, Saturday frequency and whether overtime is paid or included. Training, team support, benefits and the journey to work also affect the overall fit.

For employers: make your brief specific

Tell Flame about booking volumes, customer responsibilities, systems, the team structure and who manages workshop capacity. Set out the basic salary, bonus measures, hours and weekend rota. Identify essential experience and areas where training is available. This gives applicants a clearer picture than a job title and headline OTE alone.

Find a role or discuss a hire

Browse current service advisor and automotive vacancies and select Service Advisor in the job-role filter. Use the jobs map to explore locations, or contact Flame Recruitment about a vacancy or your next move. We will speak with candidates before sharing their details with an employer.

You can prepare with our CV checker and interview readiness checklist. For broader hiring support, visit automotive recruitment services.

Find service advisor jobs near you

Explore current vacancies in our live job search. Select Service Advisor and your location to compare responsibilities, basic salary, bonus and rota. Availability changes as vacancies are filled.

For another location, choose Service Advisor in our live job search, enter your postcode and travel radius, then press Search Jobs. Our jobs map lets you open vacancy details from a marker. If no suitable role appears, tell Flame your preferred towns, experience and working pattern.

Hiring service advisors across the UK

Flame Recruitment supports dealerships and workshops with service advisor recruitment throughout the UK, including London, the East of England and the Midlands. A useful brief explains the customer journey: bookings, vehicle handover, estimates, progress updates, invoicing and any warranty or upselling duties. Include the size of the service team, systems used, basic salary, achievable bonus and weekend rota.

For senior roles, clarify whether the person will supervise colleagues, manage work in progress or take responsibility for departmental targets. This helps distinguish a senior advisor vacancy from a service manager position. Discuss your service advisor requirements with Flame, or read our dealership hiring guide.