Customer Care Specialist

States Manufacturing Corporation; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

States Manufacturing Corporation in Minneapolis, MN is seeking a Customer Care Specialist to support customer-reported product, warranty, and service cases by ensuring timely intake, accurate documentation, appropriate routing, and consistent administrative follow-up.

The Specialist gathers required customer and equipment information and maintains case records to assist Customer Care Leads and Technical Support Engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required
• 2+ years of experience in customer service or related field
• Industrial equipment/manufacturing experience preferred
• Strong communication and organizational skills

Responsibilities

• Receive customer requests through designated channels, acknowledge receipt, establish initial expectations, and create the case in the approved case-management system.
• Capture and validate customer contacts, site details, equipment information, serial numbers, order data, reported symptoms, operating conditions, photographs, and supporting documents.
• Apply established product-line, issue-type, severity, and routing criteria; escalate safety, unit-down, and critical indicators; route to Customer Care Lead and technical resource.
• Collect product history, shipment records, contract information, and supporting documentation for warranty entitlement evaluation.
• Provide standard acknowledgments and routine updates as directed by the Customer Care Lead; coordinate meetings and information requests.
• Track open actions, information requests, customer responses, and case milestones; follow up without taking ownership of resolution.

Skills

Customer service

Coordination

Attention to detail

Follow-through

Education

4 year degree

Tools

Salesforce Service Cloud

CRM/ERP systems

Microsoft Outlook

Teams

Excel

Job description

Description

The Customer Care Specialist supports customer-reported product, warranty, and service cases by ensuring timely intake, accurate documentation, appropriate routing, and consistent administrative follow-up. The Specialist gathers required customer and equipment information, maintains case records, coordinates routine communications, and supports Customer Care Leads and Technical Support Engineers across one or more product lines. This role supports case progression but does not hold end-to-end case ownership or accountability for resolution and closure.

Key Responsibilities

Customer Intake & Acknowledgment
Receive customer requests through designated channels, acknowledge receipt, establish initial expectations, and create the case in the approved case-management system.

Case Documentation & Data Validation
Capture and validate customer contacts, site details, equipment information, serial numbers, order data, reported symptoms, operating conditions, photographs, and supporting documents.

Initial Classification & Routing
Apply established product-line, issue-type, severity, and routing criteria. Promptly elevate defined safety, unit-down, and critical indicators and route the case to the assigned Customer Care Lead and appropriate technical resource.

Warranty Information Gathering
Collect product history, shipment records, contract information, and supporting documentation needed by the Customer Care Lead to evaluate warranty entitlement.

Communication & Administrative Coordination
Provide standard acknowledgments and routine updates as directed by the Customer Care Lead. Coordinate meetings, requested information, reports, and other administrative activities.

Action Tracking & Follow-Up
Track open actions, information requests, customer responses, technical calls, field activity, and case milestones. Follow up with responsible parties without assuming ownership of the resolution decision.

Case Record Quality & Closure Support
Maintain complete and accurate records and assemble required correspondence, technical documentation, field reports, customer confirmation, and closure information for review by the Customer Care Lead.

Shared Product-Line Support
Support one or more product-line teams and coordinate activities across assigned Customer Care Leads and Technical Support Engineers as capacity and workload require.

Requirements

Qualifications

Education

4 year degree

Experience
Two or more years of experience in customer service, service coordination, warranty administration, order management, technical support administration, or a related function. Industrial equipment, electrical equipment, manufacturing, or field-service experience is preferred.

Technical Aptitude
Ability to learn power-distribution equipment terminology and product identification, gather technical information accurately, and recognize defined escalation indicators without independently diagnosing complex failures.

Systems & Tools
Experience with CRM, ERP, case-management, or service-management platforms. Salesforce Service Cloud experience is preferred. Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Teams, Excel, and related applications.

Core Capabilities
Professional customer communication, organization, follow-through, attention to detail, process discipline, and the ability to support multiple concurrent cases and product-line teams.