South East Water UK
Wholesale Service Desk Operations Scheduler
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Summary
To validate, correct, schedule, prioritise and organise work for circa 24 Distribution Technicians in an efficient manner ensuring compliance with regulatory and company requirements.
Are you highly motivated, resilient, and someone who always follows through on promises? If so, this could be the opportunity you’ve been looking for.
As an Operation Scheduler, you’ll be the calm in the storm for facing water supply issues—like unexpected outages or low pressure. Using your quick decision-making and natural empathy, you'll tackle problems head-on to deliver the best results, first time, every time.
The Details & Perks
The Hours: 37 hours a week between Monday - Friday. This role includes working one Saturday every 4 weeks, with a lieu day to be taken during the week.
Bonus Potential: Take ownership of your goals and you can boost your earnings by up to £1,800 per year through our customer satisfaction bonus scheme.
Main responsibilities
- Assigning distribution technicians work based on operational requirements, work priorities and technician workloads, delivering compliance with job priority KPIs and customer appointments.
- Ensuring Wallboard is up to date with team briefs, training, annual leave etc so ensuring accurate schedules of customer appointments and management of resource.
- Utilise Maximo Start Centres and reports to monitor that works have been completed.
- To quality check 100% of completed work orders to ensure that the technicians have updated the job with notes that are sufficient for all areas of SEW to complete the remainder of the Customer journey process.
- To report on regulatory requirements on GSS missed appointments.
- Liaise with the Wholesale Service Desk team to provide information to allow the interruption portal to be updated with clear operational & customer information.
- Using information and resources to ensure that skills and knowledge are kept up to date and continuously developed.
- Build relationships with peers and colleagues to enhance the team working environment, resolve customer problems and ensure successful productivity.
- To cover for the area incident coordinator when required.
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You'll need:
Skills / Qualifications / Experience
- Achieved GCSE Maths and English at Grade 4/C (or equivalent).
- Be able to communicate positively in an extremely busy working environment.
- Make decisions quickly and be able to multitask.
- Have strong computer skills and have the ability to flex between a high number of different systems.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Have a strong customer service focus with a determination to resolve customer issues.
It will be a bonus if you have:
Skills / Qualifications / Experience
- A NVQ qualification Level 2 or above in Customer Service/Business Administration is desirable.
- Previous contact centre experience is welcomed but not essential.
- From an Operational background, with a knowledge of Maximo, Business Objects, Hi-Affinity, and GIS/Geofied.
- Appreciation of the Distribution & Developer service function and sound practical knowledge of the role of a Distribution Technician.
Employees are required to be flexible and to be prepared to perform duties and other tasks within their capabilities. The nature of our business is such that the contents of any job profile are subject to change from time to time.
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Benefits package:
- Excellent Stakeholder pension scheme, up to 10% employer contribution.
- 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays per annum, increasing to 6 weeks with length of service.
- Flexible annual leave policy to buy or sell holiday leave.
- Paid volunteering days.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Health cash plan.
- Life assurance.
- Wellbeing related benefits.
What can you expect from your recruitment?
To apply for this position, please submit your CV on our career’s website.
It is necessary for you to have the legal right to work in the UK when you begin employment with South East Water.
Additionally, as part of the employment offer, you will need to pass background, identity, and employment referencing checks.
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South East Water kindly asks that recruitment agencies refrain from submitting CVs to our employees or associates without explicit invitation from our HR Resourcing team. CVs sent on a speculative basis will not be acknowledged and will not assume any responsibility for fees or commissions in the event that we hire a candidate who applied directly or subsequently introduced by an instructed agency.
Compensation package:
£29,654.20 p.a.
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