Customer Service Representative

Waste-Pro; Athens (GA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Waste Pro is seeking a Customer Service Representative to handle a high volume of calls and serve as the primary contact for customers in Athens, GA. The role focuses on resolving issues, providing quotes, and creating accurate service records.

You will collaborate with a team to meet call center objectives, strive for quick response times, and identify opportunities to cross-sell products while maintaining excellent customer service standards.

Qualifications

• Ability to handle a heavy volume of calls in a professional and efficient manner.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and analytical skills.
• Proficient in MS Office and strong typing skills.
• Ability to multi task and adapt to changes while providing high-quality customer service.
• Ability to identify and resolve problems promptly while maintaining professionalism.

Responsibilities

• Answer incoming calls from customers and resolve issues on first contact where possible.
• Assist commercial and residential customers in resolving issues and provide service quotes.
• Establish customer accounts with accurate service details and pricing.
• Cross-sell additional products and services where appropriate.
• Escalate complex issues to the proper department and act as customer advocate.
• Maintain customer records using the Tower system and participate in cross-training.

Skills

Call handling

Communication skills

Multitasking

Problem solving

Adaptability

Teamwork

Time management

Tools

Tower system

MS Office

Typing

Job description

SUMMARY OF POSITION:The Customer Service Representative receives and processes calls from customers, serves as the end-to-end point of contact for customers, and resolves customer issues. Collaborates with a team of customer service representatives to meet overall call center objectives and enhance the customer service function to exceed our customers' expectations.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
1. Answers incoming calls.
2. Assists existing commercial and residential customers in resolving issues.
3. Provides service quotes for new customers.
4. Establishes customer accounts by negotiating and documenting service type, pricing, billing, and other required information. Communicates concise and accurate information.
5. Provides customer retention by providing high level customer service and offering alternatives to cancellation request.
6. Averages answering approximately 100 inbound calls per day .
7. Averages answering calls in fewer than 12 seconds.
8. Establishes understanding of customer needs, issues, and requests.
9. Identifies opportunities to cross sell additional products and services. (Lock bars, casters, gate fees, etc.)
10. Interacts with customers and Waste Pro employees to determine service, resolve complaints, and escalates the more complex issues to the appropriate level.
11. Serves as the customer's advocate by solving problems on the customer's behalf and by engaging the right department and people within Waste Pro.
12. Supports other service lines when required.
13. Uses Tower system to gather information, provides information, and/or update customer records.
14. Completes cross training with other departments to include Operations, Sales, and Billing.
15. Strives to meet or exceed service and operational goals established for the call center to include productivity, quality, and timeliness.

OTHER JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Employees in this job classification must attend and participate in corporation sponsored training courses as assigned.
* Employees in this job classification are responsible for keeping up to date on current technology, as job appropriate, being used by Waste Pro .
* Any additional job duties that may be assigned by the Supervisor.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: Normal setting for this job is: office setting.

CDL Required

No CDL Required

QUALIFICATIONS:
* Ability to handle a heavy volume of calls in a professional and efficient manner
* Excellent verbal, written and analytical skills
* Computer proficiency in MS Office and strong typing Skills,
* Ability to multi task.
* Ability to react well under pressure and treat others with respect
* Ability to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner * Ability to Prioritize and plan work activities * Ability to work efficiently and effectively, both independently and as a team to ensure exceeding the call center's standards.
* Ability to balance team and individual responsibilities and help build a positive team environment.
* Ability to adapt and deal with frequent changes in the work environment, manage difficult or emotional customer situations and respond promptly to service.

Special Considerations/Physical Work Requirements: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
* Required to use motor coordination with finger dexterity (such as keyboarding, machine operation, driving, etc.)- most of the work day;
* Required to exert physical effort in tasks that involve the ability to exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work, but which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of light weight handling objects less than 25 pounds- rarely;

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