Call Center Technician

Call Center Technician Highlights: Location: Fairfax, VA Position Type: Contract/ contract to hire Hourly / Salary: Based on experience Residency Status: US Citizen Our client is in need of a Call Center Technician to join their team! 

Position Description:

• Provide excellent customer service to residents, business owners, and other local, state and federal agencies in a professional manner.Â
• Answers, responds to, refers, and/or transfers phone calls, emails, and any other type of communication such as virtual, electronic, or written concerning sanitary sewer and stormwater emergencies and maintenance requests.Â
• Using GIS applications to research the location and ownership of sanitary sewers, stormwater, and other utility infrastructure to assist the investigation by field crews/inspectors, and to make appropriate decisions when responding to inquiries.Â
• Investigating and recording appropriate information to create, update, and close service requests and work orders in asset management system for Stormwater & Wastewater Management.Â
• Updating boards, contractor information, staff availability, and logbooks on a daily, weekly, or biweekly basis as provided by supervisors, agency staff, and field crews.Â
• Monitors Pumping Stations Branch (PSB) alarms on SCADA and Scout systems. Logs PSB personnel in and out of pumping stations during regular business hours and relays status of alarms to appropriate mechanical, electrical, or instrumentation personnel.Â
• Uses County electronic technology to send emails and texts when dispatching TRI s and crew members to emergency sites and inputs arrival, leaving times and other details such as date, time, location, name of caller, and name of inspector assigned in the call center system.Â
• Maintaining knowledge of environmental regulations plus understanding general agency practices and policies, County website and SharePoint and other available resources and using them effectively to provide appropriate information, guidance, and response.Â
• Maintains a knowledge of environmental regulations to comply with reporting procedures for Sanitary Sewer Overflows (SSOs) and backup reports and makes the initial compliance reports

Skills Required:

• Accountability – taking ownership of outcomes and resolving customer issuesÂ
• Customer service - providing timely, respectful, and effective support to meet and exceed customer needs and expectationsÂ
• Effective communication – relaying information to our customers (internal and external) in a clear and concise fashion.Â
• Problem solving – triaging the different communications CCC receivesÂ
• Flexibility and Resilience – willingness to work after hours and for emergency response inclement weather

Preferred Skills:

• Any experience in or knowledge of wastewater and/or stormwater systems.Â
• 1-2 years’ experience working in a field agency or utility company and/or with field crews providing technical support.Â
• Intermediate experience in operating a variety of communication equipment to respond to residents, dispatch personnel, and respond to emergency calls which requires applying good communication and problem-solving skills, customer service, and the ability to work in a rapid pace environmentÂ
• Basic experience in locating information in Tax Map Grids.Â
• Basic experience using asset management system (database system) to create work orders and retrieve maintenance history.Â
• Basic experience in using Geographical Information System (GIS) applications.
• Intermediate experience in Microsoft Office Suite specifically MS Word, EXCEL, Outlook.

Required Education & Experience:

• High school graduation or a GED issued by a state department of education.
• Any combination of education, experience, and training equivalent to high school graduation or a GED issued by a state department of education; and one year of engineering technical support work experience

Preferred Education & Experience:

• One year of post-secondary vocational trade school or completion of one year of an applied science associate's degree
• Working/training between 20-32 hours on weekdays during business hours between 7a-4:30p. Once training has been completed it’s possible some staff will be filling in weekend or overnight shifts (7a-7p or 7p-7a)

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