Description
Join the Florida Utility Trailers team and play a key role in keeping our customers moving!
Florida Utility Trailers is seeking a highly organized, customer-focused, and motivated Mobile Service Coordinator to support our growing mobile service operations. In this fast-paced role, you'll be at the center of the action, coordinating mobile technicians, scheduling on-site and roadside repairs, and ensuring customers receive timely, reliable service.
The ideal candidate is a proactive problem-solver who thrives in a dynamic environment, enjoys working with customers and technicians, and can confidently juggle multiple priorities while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
Essential Functions
- Coordinate daily mobile service schedules, appointments, and technician dispatch to support timely on-site and roadside service delivery
- Gather detailed information from inbound calls, emails, and messages regarding refrigeration issues, trailer repair needs, equipment location, urgency, and service history
- Prioritize emergency breakdowns, scheduled maintenance, inspections, and repair requests based on technician skill, location, availability, and service commitments
- Optimize technician routes and daily workload to improve response times, technician utilization, and customer service coverage
- Create, update, and close work orders in the service management system, maintaining accurate real-time job status and follow-up records
- Prepare or coordinate preliminary and formal repair estimates, communicate pricing and service options, and secure customer authorization before work begins
- Communicate clearly with customers regarding appointment timing, delays, repair findings, scope changes, and completion status
- Coordinate parts and materials by checking availability, placing orders, arranging delivery to technicians or job sites, and tracking backorders
- Collaborate with service managers, technicians, and parts teams to resolve issues, elevate complex service needs, and maintain accurate documentation including notes, photos, labor, and parts usage
- Support preventive maintenance scheduling and inspection programs based on service intervals, manufacturer guidance, mileage, unit hours, or customer agreements
- Assist with invoicing preparation, warranty-related documentation, service reporting, and maintenance of customer and equipment records
- Support after-hours or rotating on-call coordination for urgent reefer failures or trailer breakdowns as needed
Required Skills/Abilities
- Ability to make practical decisions quickly while managing a high volume of changing priorities and urgent service needs
- Strong follow-through and comfort working in a structured environment with defined procedures, documentation requirements, and service standards
- Clear communication skills for coordinating with customers, technicians, service managers, and parts teams
- Ability to explain repair options, pricing, timelines, and service updates in a clear and customer-friendly manner
- Attention to documentation quality, record accuracy, estimate detail, and process compliance
- Comfort using dispatch systems, scheduling tools, service software, and operational workflows to keep work moving efficiently
- Ability to stay focused and effective in a fast-moving service setting with multiple active jobs and shifting timelines
- Working knowledge of field service, mechanical repair, transportation maintenance, or related service operations
Requirements
Preferred Skills/Abilities
- High school diploma or equivalent required; additional technical or business training preferred
- 1–3+ years of experience in service coordination, dispatching, customer service, estimating, or administrative support in a field-service, transportation, fleet, trailer repair, HVAC/R, or mechanical service environment
- Proficiency with computers, Microsoft Office, and field-service or dispatch software; experience with systems such as Excede, Karmak, or similar platforms is a plus
- Valid driver's license and clean driving record; occasional local travel or vehicle use may be required
- Prior experience with transport refrigeration, trailer service and repairs, heavy-duty truck or trailer maintenance, or commercial HVAC/R is preferred
- Familiarity with major transport refrigeration brands and a practical understanding of refrigeration systems, electrical diagnostics, diesel engines, or trailer systems is preferred
- Experience preparing service estimates and obtaining customer approvals in a customer-facing service environment is preferred
- Knowledge of EPA refrigerant regulations, DOT inspection requirements, or related compliance standards is a plus
Physical Demands
- Ability to work in a primarily office-based environment with frequent phone and computer use, occasional lifting of up to 20–25 lbs, and possible shift, early-start, or rotating on-call coverage