Customer Service Representative

Elizabethtown Gas is a natural gas utility company that delivers safe, reliable, and affordable natural gas to over 300,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers in Union, Middlesex, Sussex, Warren, Hunterdon, Morris, and Mercer counties. At our core, we're dedicated to being a committed community partner, delivering exceptional customer service and developing innovative clean energy solutions to meet the needs of the future.
At Elizabethtown Gas, we believe that our employees are our most valuable asset. Whether you're a seasoned operations technician or an early-career legal professional, our culture, inclusive workforce, and leadership development and training programs will provide you with the tools you need to either kickstart your career or bring it to new heights.
Position Summary
Please note, this position is not for immediate hire, rather it is for pipelining purposes for our Customer Service Representative training classes
A career in Customer Service will provide the opportunity to provide customer service relating to billing/collections as well as customer inquiries. This typically includes ensuring that good customer relations are maintained, and customer claims and complaints are resolved fairly and effectively, in a timely manner and in accordance with the consumer laws. Verifies the identity of new and existing customers. Additionally, this involves ensuring good customer relations are maintained.
Roles within Customer Service are responsible for providing the best possible service in relation to billing inquiries, credit and collection, service requests (usually related to gas turn-ons), suggestions, and complaints, customer verification, as well as social media interactions. This includes ensuring positive interactions at the call centers and customer service walk-in centers. The team is responsible for tracking BPU complaints and other mandated customer experience metrics. This also includes providing and monitoring energy assistance to those who qualify. Also includes workforce management and forecasting scheduling needs. Additionally, this may include providing customers with information on programs available for energy assistance.