Customer Service Agent

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

Company Overview:

Allied Universal®, North America’s leading security and facility services company, offers rewarding careers that provide you a sense of purpose. While working in a dynamic, welcoming, and collaborative workplace, you will be part of a team that contributes to a culture that positively impacts the communities and customers we serve.

Allied Universal® is hiring a Call Center Representative at our Service Assurance Center (SAC) in Richardson, TX. The Call Center Representative handles a high volume of both inbound and outbound calls. Allied Universal’s Service Assurance Center (SAC) is a call center that operates 24 hours per day, 365 days per year, and is a critical component in ensuring on time, uninterrupted coverage of all post locations and accurate pay for officers. Service Assurance Center Specialists also assist with Post Watch™, a real-time schedule monitoring system, by contacting posts to verify the guard's arrival or begin the escalation process of searching for a replacement guard. This position may require working on holidays if they fall on your regularly scheduled workdays . This is a full time, in office role that requires weekends. 

PAY: $17.00 per hour plus tiered retention/performance bonus eligibility 

SCHEDULES AVAILABLE FOR CALL CENTER REPRESENTATIVE (full time, 40 hours per week):

• First Shift (6:30 am - 3:00 pm, with a 30 minute unpaid meal break)
• Overnight Shift (10:30pm - 7:00 am, with a 30 minute unpaid meal break)

Training Schedule: (6:30am - 3:00pm, Monday-Friday for the first 2 weeks)

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Identify scheduled shifts where an employee has failed to log in/out and adjust schedules to reflect actual service hours of employees in real time
• Create attendance exception records based on changes to schedules where appropriate
• Monitor safety check calls and respond to emergency situations by contacting appropriate personnel and documenting with incident reports
• Notify account managers through calls and call notes on anything that needs to be corrected with their accounts, employees, or site schedules
• Handle local office calls during normal office hours and transfers calls to appropriate personnel
• Receive after-hours call forwarding from all Allied Universal offices and take appropriate action

QUALIFICATIONS:

• High School diploma or equivalent
• Must have a minimum of 1 year of consecutive and verifiable work experience in the customer service field
• Basic proficiency with Excel, Outlook, and Microsoft Teams
• Possess excellent customer service phone etiquette skills
• Navigate a web-based system, while assisting callers
• Work in a team environment and work independently
• Work in a fast-paced environment and multi-task with accuracy

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Prior high volume call center experience with both inbound and outbound calls 

BENEFITS:

• Medical, dental, vision, basic life, AD&D, and disability insurance
• Enrollment in our company’s 401(k)plan, subject to eligibility requirements
• Eight paid holidays annually, five sick days, and four personal days
• Vacation time offered at an accrual rate of 3.08 hours biweekly. Unused vacation is only paid out where required by law.

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Allied Universal® is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, age, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status or relationship/association with a protected veteran, or any other basis or characteristic protected by law. For more information:

If you have any questions regarding Equal Employment Opportunity, have difficulty using the online system and require an alternate method to apply, or require an accommodation at any time during the recruitment and/or employment process, please contact our local Human Resources department. To find an office near you, please visit:

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