Job Title: Customer Service Representative
Department: Operations Support
Reports to: Manager Service Delivery Support
A Customer Service Representative is responsible for interacting with customers as well as other employees to ensure that customer needs are met. Representatives are required to use both the CSXT Host and NS TYES systems to track customer cars and respond to customer inquiries.
Major Job Functions
Safety
- Familiarity with Company Safety and Operating Rules
Work Activities
- Answer phone calls and emails from customers, parent railroads, and other employees in a timely and efficient manner.
- Ensure that information and data input in computer tracking systems is accurate and done in a timely manner.
- Order and release freight cars, build and modify work orders, update train records, identify and research no bills, locate cars for customers, perform interchanges with shortlines and other railroads, and record inbound and outbound train arrivals and departures.
- Use computer databases to generate reports, handle customer inquiries and complaints, locate and track freight car movements.
Problem Solving
- Handle customer complaints in a polite and calm manner.
- Resolve problems utilizing the “problem log” if an inquiry cannot be resolved immediately.
- Report cars that have been on the property over 48 hours; monitor cars without good movement instructions and resolve problems.
Teamwork
- Work with customers, supervisors, and field personnel to address and solve problems.
Qualifications
- High School Diploma or GED
- 1-2 years of experience working in transportation, trucking, customer service, or call center desirable but not required.
- Read, write and clearly speak the English language.
- Computer experience with mainframe and/or various software programs: Word, Excel, etc.
- Effectively communicate using telephone and e-mail systems.
- Ability to work with others in a professional and business-like manner.
Other Requirements
- Report to work on a regular and consistent basis.
- Work various shifts, including nights and weekends as well as mandatory overtime.
- Sit for prolonged periods of times.
- Use hands to type and write.
- Speak clearly.
We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer
Company Description
Conrail is a small railroad with big resources where you can have a rewarding career without sacrificing quality of life.
As a terminal and switching service provider for its owners, CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern, Conrail provides safe and efficient rail service for many local rail freight customers in Detroit, New Jersey and Philadelphia. Customers located along Conrail’s lines in these shared asset areas have access to the nation’s rail network through either NS or CSX.
Although Conrail no longer handles commercial matters for customers, we continue to play a critical role in serving shippers and receivers as an agent for our owners. As a local rail service provider, it is Conrail’s job to make sure that customers’ freight shipments are safely and efficiently moved between their rail sidings and the long-distance freight trains operated by CSX and Norfolk Southern.