Parts Correspondent - St Rose, LA

Malin Parts Correspondent

Malin Parts Correspondents play the important role of fulfilling parts requests for a variety of material handling equipment, most commonly forklifts. Parts requests may come from Malin Technicians (who are fixing equipment and replacing parts) or our external customers who need a part for their piece of equipment. Parts Correspondents use people, administrative and organizational skills to ensure the best possible experience for our other Malin departments and customers. Malin is a distributor of Raymond lift truck equipment, so Parts Correspondents will source parts for both Raymond equipment, as well as other makes/models of lift trucks.

Essential Functions include:

• Receipt of parts requests from Malin employees or external customers from a variety of ways
  • Web-based through our Zendesk system and Parts Que
  • Phone call and/or email
• Review requests to ensure accuracy and completion of information needed to process request
  • Follow-up via phone to ask specific or qualifying questions regarding part request or equipment details
  • Provide Malin employees or customers with pricing information and availability
  • Addressing with Malin employees or customers damaged parts, incorrect parts, or discrepancies
• Source both Raymond parts and other makes of equipment via
  • Raymond parts online catalogue
  • Other catalogues of parts for other makes of equipment
• Update online work orders to close out requests to ensure timely fulfillment for Malin employees needing parts or external customers' orders
  • Status work orders appropriately
  • Add detailed notes
  • Ensure appropriate packing/shipping methods

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• People Support approachable with a reputation of providing stellar support for other departments and customers
• Written and verbal communication skills ability to compose detailed and professional correspondence and communicate via phone call in a clear, helpful manner
• Organized with prompt follow-up must be able to take ownership of a request within a timely manner, provide status and follow-up and close out the request in its entirety
• Problem solving and research must be comfortable utilizing online and computer-based information, catalogues, and web-based resources to provide outside-of-the-box solutions
• Safety-oriented demonstrated ability to follow safety protocols and guidelines when handling and storing parts to prevent accidents or damage
• Microsoft Office & 365 intermediate skills in Outlook, Excel, Word and Teams

If you have ANY of the following... let's talk!

• Min. one year customer service experience
• Savvy internet research skills
• Intermediate Microsoft Outlook experience

Malin is an Equal Opportunity Employer -- M/F/Veteran/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity