Job Details
Field Service Representative
Diversity of backgrounds, ideas, thoughts, and experiences is vital to our culture and the way we do business. Creating an environment where differences are embraced and where every person feels engaged and included makes us safer, stronger, and more successful.
With a history dating back to 1886, American Water is the largest and most geographically diverse U.S. publicly traded water and wastewater utility company. The company employs more than 7,000 dedicated professionals who provide regulated and market-based drinking water, wastewater and other related services to 15 million people in 46 states. American Water provides safe, clean, affordable and reliable water services to our customers to help make sure we keep their lives flowing. For more information, visit amwater.com and follow American Water on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
PLEASE NOTE: In order for American Water to evaluate decisions about new regulations, reintegration, and safe operating practices, all employees are required to report their vaccination status.
Key Accountabilities
- Talks with customers by phone or in person and receives orders for installation, turn-on, discontinuance, change in service, or change of address and processes same by computer.
- Completes and mails contract forms, determines charges for service requested, and determines deposits, if any.
- Frequently interviews customers and others by telephone to answer inquiries and complaints pertaining to bills, customer deposits, and accounts using a computer.
- Frequently responds to complaints concerning billing or service rendered, referring complaints of service failures, such as low pressure or discolored water to designated departments for investigation.
- Frequently determines appropriate sewer, surcharge, PSD, or O&M entities based on geographic data from CIS system.
- Frequently determines from knowledge of distribution system who to dispatch in case of main breaks and other emergency service calls.
- Frequently generates duplicate bills as requested.
- Frequently handles inquiries received by mail, compiling information from customer accounting records for replies written by self and others.
- Consistently interprets company policies related to customer service.
- Follows procedures established by the company for handling customer service inquiries and requests. Occasionally files records within area of responsibility.
- Consistently completes an acceptable number of customer inquiries per day as established by the company.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Experience/Education
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
Work Environment
- Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.
- Lifting 50 pounds maximum and occasionally lifting and/or carrying such articles as spiral notebooks.
- Walking and standing are required only occasionally.
- Reaching. Handling. Fingering. Feeling. Talking~ Hearing. Seeing are constantly required
Other
- Candidate must have good driving record
Competencies
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