Regional Operations Manager

Location:   Remote

 Southern Home Services is a residential HVAC, Plumbing and Electrical company that acquires, owns, and operates businesses around the United States. We are seeking business leaders to join our growing team and become an integral part of our company's future. 

Position Summary: 

The Regional Operations Manager partners with local General/Line Managers to audit, coach, and optimize operations to maximize regional Gross Margin and EBITDA without holding direct line authority.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Margin Improvement & Cost Control
• EBITDA Optimization: Implement regional cost-containment strategies to aggressively improve gross margins and center EBITDA.
• Labor Efficiency: Conduct ticket dives, audit timecard adherence, OT hours, labor efficiency, dispatch efficiency, and technician utilization rates to reduce direct labor costs. 
• Service Pricing Integrity: Enforce standardized multi-trade flat-rate pricing guides to minimize field discounting and protect gross margins. Audit Pricebook Pro services and tasks to ensure correct pricing
• Warehouse and Inventory: Oversee warehouse controls to minimize inventory and ensure proper truck stock and replenishment processes. Coach on correct inventory and count processes. Leverage vendor partnerships when possible.
• Process Adherence & Operational Execution
• Playbook Implementation: Ensure adherence to SoOps operational blueprint across dispatching, sales, and service.
• CRM Accountability: Mandate 100% data compliance within ServiceTitan to ensure accurate regional reporting and KPIs.
• Non-Productive jobs Mitigation: Audit diagnostic and installation quality protocols to lower recall and return work rates, reduce $0 jobs and diagnostic only jobs and protect labor margins. 
• Safety Enforcement & Risk Mitigation
• Zero-Incident Culture: Ensure safety training completion and adherence to safety protocols through collaboration with General Managers/Line Managers/and safety captains, OSHA compliance checks, and EPA refrigerant logging across all branches. 
• Fleet Accountability: Monitor GPS tracking and telematics data to enforce safe driving, reduce fuel costs, and limit vehicle liabilities.
• Field Audits: Conduct unannounced multi-trade job site inspections to ensure strict PPE usage and code-compliant installations.
• AR Reduction & Cash Flow Optimization
• Collection at Time of Service: Enforce a strict "COD" (Cash on Delivery) policy, requiring field technicians to collect 100% payment upon job completion.
• Financing Penetration: Drive technician adoption of consumer financing programs at the kitchen table to boost average tickets and ensure instant funding.
• Aging AR Resolution: Partner with branch managers to clear residual 30/60/90-day outstanding balances and streamline invoicing workflows. Additional duties as assigned
• Education and Experience:
• 5+ years of multi-site operations experience or proven track record of operational excellence ideally within a home services platform.
• Turnaround Track Record: Proven success transforming underperforming branches into high-margin, highly compliant business units.
• Fluent with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• High School diploma or GED preferred.

Required Skills/Abilities: 

• Data-Driven Leadership: Ability to dissect P&L statements, identify margin leakage, and quickly execute corrective action plans.
• Change Management: Strong leadership presence to overcome technician push back and drive adoption of processes.
• Tech Stack Mastery: Advanced proficiency in ServiceTitan, fleet telematics, and real-time financial dashboards. 
• Ability to easily cultivate strong rapport with customers and co-workers
• Find it rewarding to organize, prioritize and manage time effectively to see a task through to completion
• Work well independently & with integrity in a structured yet relaxed environment
• Enjoy patiently, empathetically helping others
• Valid driver license with acceptable driving record is required; extensive travel is required including overnight travel.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

The physical requirements of this job include:

• Perform work while sitting and/or standing at an individual workstation or office
• Communicate verbally via phone or other communication device.
• Ability to stand, walk and sit; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone
• Use hands to type, handle or feel objects or controls; reach with hands and arms. 
• Occasionally stoop, kneel, bend, crouch and lift up to 10 pounds.
• Work is usually performed at various business locations.
• Extensive travel required, including overnight travel.
• Southern Home Services will make reasonable accommodations to allow an employee to perform the essential functions of the job.

Benefits

We offer a rewarding career path with great benefits, flexible schedules, professional and on-the-job training and growth plans. Come be a part of the team our customers call the finest in the industry.

• Reliable, Year-Round Work
• Weekly Paychecks
• Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
• Company Matched 401k

Southern Home Services is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. The policy applies to all employment practices within our organization.