Service Coordinator
The Hiller Companies
About the Role
The Hiller Companies is seeking a Service Coordinator to provide critical support to the Service Manager and Service Technicians, ensuring strong planning and coordination for all service inspection and repair activity. This role acts as a liaison between customers and other Hiller team members to coordinate schedules, materials, and ensure the proper documentation of work.
Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for direct coordination and management of daily schedules and planning of field service technicians, performing services of Inspections, Maintenance, Testing and Repair of Fire and Life Safety Systems.
- Communicate and resolve issues with customers and personnel regarding the scheduling of inspection work.
- Monitor technician activity and schedules ensuring that customer commitments are met, clearly communicate status changes back to the customer regarding early or late anticipated arrivals.
- Alert management of potential problems resulting from customer or field complaints and work to resolve.
- Review all completed jobs and verifying inventory of service technicians and cost materials to jobs appropriately during the job closure process.
- Maintain and process inspection documentation as required during the job completion process.
- Track and address all jobs that are reopened due to missing information.
- Stay up to date on work progress, customer relations, field personnel relations, material administration and other matters affecting service operations.
- Measure branch activity and compliance with program initiatives, identify areas that require improvement, and develop and implement action plans with branch/regional management.
- Communicate to the sales teams when a quote is needed that was identified during an inspection.
- Serve as the point of contact for all 3rd party portals (e.g., IROL).
- Ensure work order extensions are requested in customer portals as required.
- Provides optimal route planning when scheduling to ensure efficiency, reduce travel time, cost, and distance.
- Identify customers where we are not currently performing on all service lines and communicating with sales team the opportunities for additional service line sales.
- Complete special projects as required.
- Develop positive and ongoing relationships with customers and team members.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Fire protection and safety passion
- Coordination skills
- Scheduling abilities
- Customer communication
- Documentation management
- Route planning
- Sales team communication
- Familiarity with 3rd party portals (e.g., IROL)
- Experience with inventory verification
- Understanding of material costing
- Ability to identify opportunities for additional service line sales