Customer Service Administrator

Location: Penrith

Role Purpose

Providing administrative support for the Customer Service Department, striving hard to provide the best professional, high level Customer Service.

 

Key Accountabilities

  • Reporting to the Customer Service Manager.
  • First point of contact to answer and deal with all call and enquiries relating to the Customer Service.
  • Consistently deliver high quality and professional customer service to internal and external customers by telephone and written communications.
  • Continually seek to improve customer satisfaction and procedures to enable all maintenance requests received from internal and external customers to ensure that they are resolved within agreed timescales.
  • Manager a number of housing developments, customers defects, logging of paperwork and calls. Booking appointments with diary management for customers and contractors
  • Communicating regularly with Maintenance Technician, Site Managers, Contractors, Sales Team and LABC.
  • Allocate work to maintenance team within agreed timescales, managing maintenance diary.
  • Ensure all valid defects and maintenance requests are dealt with, organizing completion of works identified at the Handover Meeting within the agreed timescales.
  • Updating customers and reporting.
  • Managing own time effectively to ensure a consistent achievement of targets.
  • Understand importance of Quality standards and procedures.
  • Understanding requirement needed to achieve 5* status.
  • Reporting issues outstanding / defects management.
  • Dealing with customer complaints to reduce escalation

Enablers to the Role

  • Must possess excellent telephone manners and communication skills both verbal and written.
  • Good listening skills, understanding customer’s requirements, managing expectations and dealing with defects.
  • Must be able to prioritise workload under minimal supervision; and be flexible in approach to daily tasks.
  • Competent user of MS Word, Excel and Outlook.
  • Must hold a full Driving Licence; valid to drive in the UK.
  • Previous experience within the House Building environment is beneficial but not essential.

Further Notes

  • Role reports directly to the Customer Service Manager
  • Opportunities to progress in the business through training roles in numerous disciplines.
  • Full time working week equivalent to 40 hours.
  • Salary – commensurate with experience
  • Application deadline: Monday 19th April 2026

 

If this sounds like the role for you, then we look forward to hearing from you.  Please email careers@genesis-homes.co.uk with your C.V and covering letter.