Bilingual Dispatcher: Maintenance Scheduler
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Job Description
Who We Are
BGIS is a leading provider of customized facility management and real estate services. With our combined team of over 6,500 globally, we relentlessly focus on enabling innovation through the services we deliver, while actively looking for new opportunities that will enable innovation for our clients’ businesses. Globally, we manage over 320 million square feet of client portfolios across 30,000+ locations in North America, Europe, Middle East, Australia and Asia. Further information is available at www.bgis.com
Summary
The Scheduling Dispatcher schedules, assigns and dispatches preventative maintenance and on-demand work orders to Technicians and contributes to optimal utilization of Technician resources through effective scheduling and assignment of work orders.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
- Prepares and distributes Technicians’ daily schedules. Creates schedules that result in optimal utilization of Technician resources
- Provides support to facility management operations projects by planning and scheduling Technicians’ to project work
- Receives service requests from the call center and documents service request details into a work order
- Assesses and assigns priority to the work order
- Reviews service request requirements and assigns work orders to the appropriate Technician based on factors such as skill set, location, security clearance, availability, etc.
- Monitors and follows up on work order progress to ensure timely completion
- Prepares reports to assist in monitoring work orders and resource planning
- Reviews Technician utilization and re-assigns work orders to ensure optimal utilization of all Technician resources
- Other duties as assigned
- Must be able to work shifts, be on-call and be available to respond to emergencies
- 1 to 3 years of dispatch, scheduling or customer service work experience
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Ability to prioritize work orders based on order of importance and impact
- Ability to allocate work orders that result in optimal human resource utilization
- Ability to understand service request requirements and assign work orders to appropriate Technicians
- Computer proficiency in MS Outlook, MS Excel along with ability to quickly learn service management databases
- Strong customer service orientation along with strong customer service skills and sense of urgency
- Good communication skills
- Understanding of and previous work experience within the facility management services organization, an asset
- English is required because you will be dealing with English-speaking customers as part of your job.
- None required