Customer Service Representative 1/Customer Service Representative 2/Sr Customer Service Representative
- Berkshire Hathaway Energy Company
- Glen Allen, Virginia
- Full Time
BHE GT&S has an exciting career opportunity for a Customer Service Representative 1/2 or Sr at our company headquarters located in Glen Allen, VA.
RESPONSIBILITIES- Able to work nights, weekends, and holidays on a rotating schedule.
- Performs activities to reconcile, review, and monitor the activities required, ensuring the company's obligation to transport natural gas in the pipeline.
- Performs advanced level, very complex transactions, including nominations processing through confirmation and scheduling, while following rules and requirements.
- Reconciles imbalances and pooling points.
- Provides information timely, to allow for any necessary reconciliation.
- Works with customers and less experienced employees, to explain company policies, practices, tariff provisions, and transportation procedures.
- Assists in customer problem resolution.
- Monitors customer activities and ensures compliance with tariff provisions.
- Maintains necessary documentation of gas receipt and transportation activity and prepares reports.
- Participates in specialty projects requiring advanced to complex business and/or system knowledge, and a mastery of more complex natural gas issues.
- Manages and provides timely, accurate, and volumetric information for analysis and decision making.
- Serves as an interface between pipelines and other employees, within and without the business area.
- Performs at moderate to advanced level, to develop and maintain relationships with assigned key account customers.
- Is normally the single point of contact for multiple customers.
- Has ability to service all customer requests and to provide advanced information on company policies, practices, and tariff provisions.
- Provides assistance and individualized training on transportation storage procedures and software usage, at a moderate to complex level.
- Monitor customer activities to assist customers in utilizing contractual commitments effectively, promoting the services use.
- Works with other business areas to find resolutions to issues impacting a wider array of users.
- Partners with IT Business Analysts to align business needs with technology solutions.
- Provides proactive customer support.
- Analyzes work to eliminate errors and avoid risks.
- Provides documentation of processes and procedure.
- Provides training to internal employees and external customers.
In times of system stress, assist with tasks as required.
*****Contribute to a team-centric work environment based on mutual respect and integrity. Support the Company's CHAMPION culture, which centers around personal responsibility, continuous improvement and delivering quality for our customers.
Customer Service Representative 1:
- Ability to operate personal computer, including data analysis.
- Ability to define problems, collect data and draw conclusions
- Ability to communicate effectively, establish rapport and speak persuasively
- Ability to negotiate problem solutions
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently
Customer Service Representative 2:
- Ability to perform data analysis
- Ability to define problems, collect data and draw conclusions
- Ability to communicate effectively, establish rapport and speak persuasively
- Ability to negotiate problem solutions
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently
- Knowledge of transmission pipeline system, facility operations, tariff provisions and service agreements preferred
- Knowledge of customer facilities and operations, transportation rules and policies and interconnections preferred
- Previous experience with transportation and scheduling of natural gas.
Senior Customer Service Representative:
- Considerable experience in gas transportation.
- Ability to perform data analysis
- Ability to define problems, collect data and draw conclusions
- Ability to communicate effectively, establish rapport and speak persuasively
- Ability to negotiate problem solutions
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently
- Knowledge of transmission pipeline system, facility operations, tariff provisions and service agreements preferred
- Knowledge of customer facilities and operations, transportation rules and policies and interconnections.
Education: Bachelor (Typically four years of related, progressive work experience would be needed for candidates applying for this position who do not possess a bachelor's degree.)
Preferred Degree: Business
Knowledge of customer facilities and operations, transportation rules and policies, and interconnections preferred.