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Customer Service Representative - On-Call

Listing for: Benton County Public Utility District 1
Full Time, Per diem position Listed on 2026-11-08
Job specializations:
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 26.18 - 28 USD Hourly USD 26.18 28.00 HOUR

Job Description & How to Apply Below

Answer the call, bring the smiles, and empower your community!

On-Call Non-Exempt | Bargaining Position | Starting at $26.18 per hour + $3/50 per hour pay in lieu of benefits

Looking for meaningful, customer-focused work with a limited, on-call schedule?

Benton PUD is hiring an On-Call Customer Service Representative to support our customers and Customer Service team as needed. This opportunity may be a great fit for someone who wants to work occasional shifts while making a positive difference in the community.

In this role, you'll assist customers by phone and in person, answer billing and account questions, process payments, start and stop electric service, and help resolve a variety of customer service needs.

This is an on-call position with limited workdays and no guaranteed schedule. Our Customer Service team operates on a 4/10 schedule (Monday through Thursday). The successful candidate will be required to work full-time for the first 8 weeks of employment for training purposes. Limited benefits are available with this position. To receive a paid holiday, you must be assigned to work both the full shift before and the full shift after a holiday.

If you're dependable, adaptable, comfortable working with customers and technology, and interested in serving your community, we'd love to hear from you!

The primary purpose of this position is to provide service to customers by handling a variety of customer account and billing issues, including answering telephone calls, performing payment processing and cashiering duties, performing account analysis in terms of credit/collections and payment arrangements, mail processing / delivery, and maintaining professionalism, to ensure service expectations are achieved and departmental policies, procedures and standards are followed.

  • Support the District’smission to serve our customers and foster a positive workplace by personally choosing behavior aligned with our values and ethical code.
  • Contribute to achieving the department’s service level goals and performance standards by providing quality customer interactions and resolutions on the phone and in person.
  • Ensure customer payment processing is timely and accurate and is in accordance with established District policy and departmental procedures by receiving and posting payments, reconciling cash drawers daily and operating the remittance processing system.
  • Ensure efficient and effective lobby and phone system service by providing prompt greetings, handling routine customer requests, and referring customers to the appropriate department as needed.
  • Ensure correspondence and payments are collected in a timely manner by picking up mail at the post office on an as needed basis; opening, sorting and routing of mail; performing Operations facility mail retrieval and delivery; operating postage meter and letter inserting equipment; preparing outgoing mail.
  • Ensure returned mail is handled in an appropriate manner by conducting research to locate current addresses for customers and updating the customer information system in accordance with returned mail procedures.
  • Maximize efficiency and service by utilizing multiple technologies and systems, recommending enhancements, and by training other customer service employees on use.
  • Contribute to protecting the District’s assets by providing assistance in preparing for and maintaining accounts for external collections.
  • Ensure excellent customer service is provided by taking and processing requests for starting and stopping service, creating and modifying landlord agreements, assisting with credit issues, receiving outage calls, and resolving other customer service matters.
  • Ensure timely account service activity by selecting and completing service orders in the customer…
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