Delivery Support Specialist
Saugerties, NY - USA
Job Summary
Position Summary:
The Delivery Support Specialist is a key member of the Logistics Team and plays a central role in supporting daily delivery operations. The position manages customer communications resolves delivery issues and coordinates with internal departments to keep service running smoothly. The role requires strong judgment to clarify customer needs assess urgency and set appropriate priority for incoming delivery requests. The Delivery Support Specialist also handles deliveryrelated escalations investigates issues or delays and addresses barriers that may affect field safety or delivery timing. By combining effective communication with operational awareness this role provides critical support to routing and delivery teams and helps maintain a reliable positive customer experience
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Customer Communication and Escalation Management
- Answer incoming calls including the emergency line in a professional and courteous manner.
- Communicate with customers by phone email or in person regarding delivery questions concerns and requests.
- Manage deliveryrelated escalations ensuring concerns are addressed quickly and professionally.
- Provide clear updates and keep customers informed through full resolution.
- Record complete and accurate notes for all customer interactions in system logs.
- Monitor open issues follow up proactively and escalate to leadership when appropriate.
Priority Assessment
- Assess the urgency of incoming requests to determine which deliveries require prioritization or immediate dispatch.
- Apply a basic understanding of forecasting and customer usage patterns to support prioritization and reassure customers when appropriate.
- Distinguish between routine requests highpriority needs and true emergencies to support accurate triage.
- Document priority decisions clearly to support followthrough and operational visibility.
Delivery Issue Resolution
- Investigate incomplete or delayed deliveries identify barriers and communicate causes and resolution plans to customers.
- Relay information from drivers or technicians when fieldlevel issues arise and work with customers to resolve barriers impacting safe delivery.
- Research account details delivery history and prior notes to determine next steps.
- Maintain ownership of assigned issues through final resolution
Desired skills and experience:
- 2 years of customer service or customerinteraction experience preferably in delivery logistics or service environments; experience in the fuel industry is a strong asset.
- Strong problemsolving and criticalthinking skills with the ability to interpret information and make sound decisions quickly.
- Ability to remain calm organized and focused during highvolume periods and when handling urgent or sensitive situations.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage followups track open items and maintain accuracy across multiple tasks.
- Reliable work ethic and a collaborative teamoriented mindset.
- Effective communication skills for interacting with residential and business customers colleagues and vendors.
- Ability to read interpret and relay information from account documents system records and delivery history.
- Proficiency in basic math including percentages and comfort working with numerical information.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and standard dataentry tools.
- Availability Monday through Friday with flexibility to work weekends or overtime when needed.
Paraco Gas Corporation is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color creed sex age (40 or over) national origin ancestry physical or mental disability military or veteran status marital status medical condition gender (including gender identity gender expression sexual orientation registered domestic status pregnancy childbirth and related medical conditions) genetic characteristics religion or any other classification protected by state or federal law.
Schedule:
Monday- Friday
8 AM to 4:30 PM
Sunday-Thursday
8 AM to 4:30 PM
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
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