Scheduler

Scheduler JD

Duration; 3 - 6 months

Location; Leeds British Gas, Newbridge House, Leeds City Office Park, Kidacre Street Holbeck, Leeds, England, LS11 5BD

Training for one month in office after that its one day a week in office 4 days at home

Pay rate; £12.97

Job Description

Purpose Statement

• Working with local area teams, both field and office based, you will ensure all planning and dispatch applications are utilised consistently and efficiently.
• Helping to identify opportunities for planning, optimisation, forecasting and dispatching processes whilst maintaining and operating the systems to enable effective delivery of great customer service.
• Provide support and coverage across all planning and dispatch team activities when required to do so.

Accountabilities

• Work closely with Smart Energy Experts, , Managers and District Managers to drive efficient working with use of specialised planning and dispatch systems
• Proactively identify any operational and regulatory risks, escalating as appropriate.
• Identifying appropriate resolution for complex issues and communications directly with your colleagues and customers where required.
• You'll ensure that an effective handover of future day planning has occurred and any areas of concern that may impact performance are highlighted.
• Ability to follow clear instructions and guidelines to investigate, resolve and process a high volume of customer enquiries to deliver customer value at the first point of contact.
• Support the planning system to optimise the dispatch of visits amongst our Smart Energy Experts, taking into consideration their geographical location to ensure customers receive a timely and efficient service where manual support is required.
• Regularly review jobs booked, ensuring timely progress through various stages of jobs status and time bands ensuring the delivery of great customer experience
• Flexibility to support long term and short term planning processes where required

Competencies, demonstrable experience

• Logical Problem Solver
• Ability to work and stay calm under pressure
• Able to prioritise work
• Excellent communicator to both our internal and external customers
• Ability to recognise internal customers - including both office and field based
• Clear in managing handover of information
• Enthusiastic so that your passion for achieving effective planning/dispatching is achieved
• Always looking for ways to help colleagues and customers
• Comfortable challenging and being challenged - by area and field managers of senior management status

Training:

1 month training approx. It will roughly look like this:

1 week welcome to the business

1 week on the systems

2 weeks 'out of the classroom' so actively putting into practice what they have learnt with support from mentors

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