Supervisor – Service Operations

Job Summary

The Supervisor — Service Operations leads employees and contractors that ensure our customers have a great and professional experience when we’re onsite installing service or troubleshooting, all supported by the Manager — Service Operations and wider leadership team.

Provides direct support to employees and contractors, empowering them to deliver exceptional customer service, adhere to customer-driven schedules and Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and make sure appropriate escalations are managed depending on customer requests. This position requires 24/7 on-call availability and is the first or second person in Service Operations to respond to and coordinate solutions to customer service issues after hours.

Lumos provides 100% Fiber-Optic Internet access to more than 375,000 homes and businesses in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina and has recently announced expansion into Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, and Alabama.

We believe that the possibilities of tomorrow can’t be built on the infrastructure of yesterday. That’s why we’re building a 100% Fiber Optic network from the ground up for families, businesses, and communities, backed by local, expert customer service. An Internet built for that most hopeful of all things — the future. Because whatever the future holds, Lumos makes it faster.

At Lumos, we are driven by our commitment to a brighter tomorrow . We take pride in being the first to deliver 100% Fiber Optic Internet for families, small businesses, and communities. We know the possibilities of tomorrow can’t be built on the infrastructure of yesterday. And when we deliver uninterrupted Internet and limitless capacity, we create new opportunities for everyone.

We believe that the past is over, and the future is fast. That’s why we are who we are: the disruptors of the status quo. Guided by our purpose and startup mindset , we step up, move first, and adapt as we go. Here, there’s no hierarchy, only hustle.

We are all servant leaders , confident in our purpose and humble enough to pay close attention to the details. We all have the power to help solve problems and find solutions for our customers and teammates – and we do – by putting people first and doing whatever it takes to build loyalty with our customers and within our team.

We’re passionate about our customers’ experience . Their futures don’t stand still, and neither do ours. We’ll never stop reinventing ourselves to meet our customers’ evolving needs – because we know that our work, delivering 100% fiber optic internet, truly changes people’s lives.

• Supervises teams in the achievement of service and quality objectives, maintains alignment with budgets and SLAs, and creates and present reports about service metrics, embodying Lumos’s servant leadership model.
• Demonstrates leadership and vision managing people, major projects, and initiatives.
• Provides direction to managers and supervisors in areas of quality assurance, safety, productivity monitoring, training, and budget & SLA adherence.
• Performs proactive and reactive field visits: assessing customer service with site visits to customers to obtain their feedback on their experience with tech installation or repair, perform compliance reviews of vendor-provided services, and coordinate appropriate installation and repair activities.
• Performs administrative duties including management of employee timesheets and contractor invoicing, differentiating between capital and operational expenses, installation and repair calendar scheduling, approving invoices, and supporting invoice audits.
• Ensures teams follow service and safety standards as required by State Corporation Commission, industry & manufacturer guidelines, OSHA, National Electric Safety Code, Departments of Transportation, and local building codes covering our multi-state network.
• Responsible for managing the overall operational and daily activities of the department: planning and implementing systems that support the work and fulfill the mission and goals of the department efficiently and effectively.
• Supports Manager in budget adherence as well as multiple…