Transit Customer Service Specialist

Job Opportunity

Compensation Range: $16.40 - $20.27

Please note: This job opening may close earlier than the stated date, due to high candidate volume. If interested, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Who We Are:

At the City of High Point, we celebrate the creator in everyone. Building on our rich cultural history steeped in industrialism and innovation, our employees seek not only to transform themselves, but the world around us. We are collaborators, we are makers, we are visionaries. We invite you to explore the many opportunities to serve our community, by sharing your talents, skills, and expertise. You'll join a diverse team of over 1300 individuals dedicated not just to making a career, but a difference; because what we create in High Point, changes the world!

Our Core Values:

• Stewardship: We manage the city's resources responsibly and make decisions that sustain High Point's future.
• Welcoming: We create a friendly, open environment where residents, partners, and visitors feel valued and embraced. We want everyone who connects with High Point to feel welcomed, like they belong here.
• Integrity: We act with honesty, transparency, and ethical responsibility in everything we do. That means doing what's right even when no one's watching. This is how we earn our community's trust.
• Productivity: We stay focused on results, fostering creativity, innovation, and outside-the-box thinking. We don't just get things done we find smarter, better ways to do them.

What We Offer:

The City of High Point offers a competitive salary commensurate with education and experience. We also offer generous benefit package for full-time employees which include but are not limited to:

• A guaranteed life-long monthly pension, once vested after 5 years of service
• 401K and 457B Retirement Plans
• PTO earned within first year
• 13 Paid Holidays per year
• Tuition Reimbursement Plan
• Competitive medical, dental, and vision plans effective day one

What You'll Do:

Performs responsible clerical work in maintaining and providing schedule information to the public; does related work as required. Work is performed under regular supervision of the Transit Supervisor.

Essential Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Provides information and assistance to passengers boarding buses at the transit terminal;
• Sells tickets; receives, records and accounts for funds and makes change;
• Distributes schedules and route information, and provides directions to the public;
• Cleans and maintains terminal facilities;
• Assists transit operators with schedules and directions;
• Monitors buses in and out of the transit terminal;
• Provides security for passengers in the transit terminal areas;
• Acts as receptionist and performs clerical tasks;
• Answers in-coming telephone calls, provides information, receives, records, and routes complaints to appropriate personnel;
• Operates two-way radio to communicate messages to Transit Operators, Supervisors, and other transit personnel;
• Maintains "lost and found" service;
• Performs related duties and responsibilities as assigned;
• Ensures that all work is performed in accordance with OSHA and City Safety Standards and Policies.

Qualifications:

None

The work location of this job will be 716 W Martin Luther King Jr Dr High Point, North Carolina.

The City of High Point is committed to providing a safe, comfortable working environment for all employees. To that end, we are proud to comply with all Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requirements, as well as make reasonable accommodations to candidates and employees as we are able in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Candidates selected for employment must undergo (a.) a drug screening, in accordance with the City's drug and alcohol policy and (b.) a background screening to determine whether there is any current, pending, or previous charge, conviction or other infraction deemed incompatible with service in the capacity for which the candidate is being hired. In lieu of or in addition to background screening, candidates selected for employment in a position that requires working with children in any capacity must be fingerprinted and undergo a criminal history record check conducted by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. Certain positions are considered so critical to the health and safety of others that a candidate cannot be placed in any such position without passing a pre-placement physical exam. The City offers employment to successful candidates conditioned upon the City's receipt of satisfactory results from all required screenings, checks, and exams, as applicable.