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Service and DayWorks Coordinator

Somewhere

Fully Remote
📍 South Africa
🇿🇦 SA Friendly: 1.0/1.0

🇿🇦 Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants

This fully remote full time position at Somewhere is open to applicants from South Africa. The estimated monthly salary is R22,200 – R27,750 ZAR. This role is suited for mid-level professionals. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.

Job Description

Position:Service and DayWorks Coordinator

Location: Remote (South Africa)

Work Schedule: 8:30am-5:00pm UK time

Salary: $1200-$1500 (depending on experience)

Position Overview

The Role

The role of the Service and DayWorks Coordinator is responsible for executing the day to day operational activities of the service desk providing support and promoting ownership of work. They are primarily responsible for executing all aspects of coordination for service and dayworks delivery. To provide excellent customer service to internal colleagues and external customers through effective verbal and written communications.

Duties and responsibilities

Customer Service
* Accurately and efficiently receive and log customer enquiries using CRM/ERP.
* Write clear and concise return correspondence to customers via email or letter.
* Ensure all enquiries are dealt with a timely manner and in line with customer SLA’s and escalate to the relevant person where appropriate
* Communicate with internal colleagues to enable shared resource where required
Coordination
* Schedule jobs with customers, including maintenance, Dayworks and reactive calls outs ensuring adherence to SLA’s and internal processes
* Daily communication with engineers and field line managers to ensure work is completed in an efficient and timely manner, via telephone, Microsoft Teams, and email correspondence
* Proactive scheduling of engineers to ensure resource is used effectively i.e.: using locations, skills matrix and customer request
* Ensure engineer holidays are planned into the schedule to allow effective scheduling of work and highlight any times when resources may be limited due to holidays to Field Line Manager
* Order materials and access equipment for works using CRM/ERP, following internal process
General Administration
* Book training for engineers in line with the training matrix and as directed by Line Managers by liaising with external providers and internal colleagues
* Provide efficient and effective job correspondence to the customer, including completed paperwork being sent to the customer and processed for invoicing
* Raise work orders and purchase orders for works, using CRM/ERP and associated paperwork, as requested by Field Line Manager/Group Operations Director
* Permit requests as required for sites works, by following each customer’s permitting system
* Vetting requests as required for specific sites, by following each customer’s vetting process
* Provide reports on Jobs, PPMs, Reactive, Remedials as requested/required by Field Line Manager/ Group Operations Director.
* Where applicable participate in client reviews and meetings
* Creating customer quotations for reactive works, using engineer or Field Line Manager/Technical Surveyor notes to produce the quotation
* Report on Quotes, leads, invoices as required by Field Line Manager/ Group Operations Director.
No job description can be entirely comprehensive and the jobholder will be expected to adapt and carry out such other duties as may be required from time to time, on the understanding that they will be within the individual’s remit and capability, and consistent with the status and responsibilities of the role within the business.

Person Specification

Essential
* Excellent customer service skills and experience in customer correspondence.
* Excellent communication skills including both verbal and written.
* Calming and understanding approach in a high pressure environment
* Good knowledge of MS products, word, excel, PowerPoint and confident using IT software.
* Excellent attention to detail and sound problem solving skills, including proactive thinking.
* Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills, with the ability to multi task.
* Willingness to learn new systems and technologies in a fast past environment.
Desirable
* Previous experience in a co-ordination role
* Previous experience of working within Fire, Security or Field Service industry
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business needs

Working conditions

This role is based from our open plan office in Bath, and involves computer skills and using multiple screens and IT packages and therefore is mainly desk based. On occasion, there may be the need to work from our other offices.

Group Compliance

As part of the companies compliance to The Health & Safety at Work Etc Act 1974, ISO9001 for Quality, ISO14001 for Environmental and ISO27001 for Information Technology, there are several key objectives that are issued each year upon management review that we expect all staff to work towards in order for the company to meet these objectives and include but are not limited to:
* Compliance to all legislative and British Standard requirements
* Compliance to associated accreditation bodies schemes from NSI, BAFE, FIA and others as required
* Maximise customer satisfaction with the services provided by the client
* Working t

Tips for South African Applicants

Timezone Advantage

South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.

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Salary in Context

At R22,200/month, this role is on par with the average South African remote salary. The USD equivalent ($1,200/mo) benefits from the favourable exchange rate.

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Application Tips

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About Somewhere

Somewhere is a company in the Recruitment & Staffing industry that hires remote workers from South Africa. They currently have 608 open positions on Hirezar. View all Somewhere jobs →