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Guitar Technician (Luthier) Store 794

The Guitar Center Company

Hialeah, FL • On-site

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement, PTO

Re-posted 12 hours ago

Key responsibilities

  • Perform maintenance and repair services on customer-owned guitars and store inventory.

  • Interact with customers to ensure a positive customer experience and provide high-quality craftsmanship.

  • Complete warranty repair work and maintain store-owned gear as requested.

Guitar Center rating

6.0

Company rating: 6.0 out of 10

Based on 179 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

374th of 739 rated retailers

Job description

Why Guitar Center? Here's just some of the rewards:
For our employees who are musicians we offer the unique opportunity of gig leave-take time off to share your music with the world and return to your job after your tour! Guitar Center offers robust benefits and perks, including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K plus company match, mental health support, paid sick/holiday/vacation time, employee discount program, and tuition reimbursement options.
POSITION OVERVIEW:
Guitar Center embodies the world of creativity and music by encouraging staff to find their own individual sound. Our mission is to develop and nurture lifelong musicians and make a difference in the world by enabling musicians and non-musicians alike to experience the joy that comes from creating music. We believe in creating inclusive environments that put our customers first all the while fulfilling our mission.
As our Repair Tech (Guitar), you will provide perform maintenance and repair services on customer-owned instruments and to assist in maintenance of specific store inventory, continually building and increasing the business through great customer experience and quality work.
A few special characteristics that make our Repair Technicians successful:
  • Customer Focus: Understands customer service principles, and able to provide an excellent customer experience. Able to connect with customers in a meaningful way. Is approachable, genuine, knowledgeable, encouraging, passionate, and committed to helping customers. Able to step in to handle customer service issues.
  • Initiative: Able to identify opportunities & issues and follow through on work activities to capitalize or resolve them. Able to learn quickly and take positive action without being requested to do so. Able to develop knowledge and skills including product, store operations, sales, and leadership.
  • Selling: Able to work through GC certification program to gain a base understanding of products and sales techniques.
  • Training: Able to effectively train learners and communicate info and techniques so that they are retained.

As our Repair Technician, you will:
  • Interact with customers, ensuring a positive customer experience
  • Service customer-owned instruments with a high level of craftsmanship
  • Maintain store owned gear, as requested
  • Complete warranty repair work
  • Additional duties as assigned

Requirements:
  • Skilled understanding of repairing Guitars

Preferences:
  • Foundational product knowledge on Guitar Center products
  • Bilingual Spanish, Portuguese, and/or Creole is a plus

Guitar Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides fair and equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status prohibited under Federal, State, or local laws. All employment decisions are based on valid job-related requirements.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our website, you may request a reasonable accommodation to express interest in a specific opening. You can request reasonable accommodation by calling 1-818-735-8800 ext. 2862 or by sending an email to recruiting@guitarcenter.com.

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The Guitar Center Company embodies the world of creativity and music by encouraging our teammates to find their own individual sound. Our mission is to develop and nurture lifelong musicians and make a difference in the world by enabling musicians and non-musicians alike to experience the joy that comes from creating music. We believe in putting our customers first, engaging with respect and integrity and fulfilling our mission with passion. The Guitar Center Company operates through several business divisions. Guitar Center is the world's largest retailer of guitars, amplifiers, drums, keyboards, recording, live sound, DJ, and lighting equipment, with more than 290 stores across the United States. 2014 marked the milestone 50th anniversary of the Guitar Center Company as the organization continues to help people make music from coast to coast.

Industry

Retail

Company size

10,000+ Employees

Headquarters location

Westlake Village, CA, US

Year founded

1964

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