There’s far more to Linde that fork trucks!

As the market leader and innovator, we’re expanding and looking for an enthusiastic team player to join the area controller team, as a Service Controller, based in Warrington.

Every day is different! From managing breakdowns and services, customer queries and quotations, along with the organising of the engineers to ensure we deliver on commitments to our customers.

This is a fast-paced job, so the right candidate should enjoy spinning multiple plates all the time and be able to react to the inevitable curved balls that crop up.

If you’re organised and calm under pressure, we’ll give you the training to manage a portfolio of customers and engineers within a geographical area to deliver outstanding customer service.

There are the usual metrics and KPI’s that we need to hit, but if you have the drive and passion to deliver exceptional customer service then these will be no challenge for you

What we offer:

Within this role, your main tasks will be:

• Handling customers via (Email and/or phone) about quotation queries

• Raising third party quotations for work sent in via service, engineers or RSMs

• Chasing of off hire inspections / end of contract quotations

• Regular quote monitor checks to send, amend or fix issues with quotations

• To optimise the communication and operational links between the engineer service field team and service control

• To create and chase down quotes to customers to ensure all quoted works are approved and actioned correctly

• Management of all reactive, planned and outstanding engineer tasks

• To effectively communicate all trucks out of service to ensure customers are kept up to date with progress

• Answering and dealing with incoming telephone calls and enquiries.

• To conduct each transaction with external and internal customers in a professional and competent manner consistent with maximising customer satisfaction, and encouraging repeat business, revenue and profit growth for the business.

• To undertake this role in compliance with Health and Safety requirements

Whilst the above responsibilities outline the main functions of this position, management may from time to time, ask you to undertake other duties commensurate with the salary for this position

Tasks and Qualifications:

To fulfil this role, you will:

• Be an excellent communicator with first class customer handling skills

• Have experience of working within a fast paced customer service environment

• Have a confident and pleasant telephone manner

• Possess strong decision making and prioritisation skills

• Be committed and self-driven

• Be a team player, with a flexible approach to their workload

• Have well developed IT skills particularly Excel. Knowledge of SAP would be advantageous

• Able to work under pressure and achieve deadlines and targets.

• Have exceptional organisational skills