Customer Service Rep (Part-Time)
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EDP Propane
MI
Summary
You will manage inbound and outbound customer communications to ensure service reliability and support customer retention efforts. Additionally, you will provide administrative support for daily delivery operations, billing, and account maintenance.
Job Description
Why This Role Matters
Every interaction a customer has with Autore Oil & Propane shapes how reliable, responsive, and trustworthy we feel as their propane provider. In this role, you’ll be the person who turns everyday service moments calls, questions, fixes into long-term customer relationships that keep homes warm, businesses running, and communities powered. What you do directly supports customer retention, smooth operations, and growth across our service areas.
What You’ll Do
You’ll work at the center of customer communication and internal coordination, partnering closely with your General Manager, Service Center, and delivery teams to make sure customers get what they need accurately and on time.
- Handle inbound and outbound customer calls with clear, respectful, solution-focused communication
- Support customer growth and retention efforts by resolving concerns, following up, and ensuring issues are fully closed
- Participate in outbound campaigns to retain customers, win back lost accounts, and collect on past-due balances
- Assist with daily delivery and service operations by resolving routing exceptions and updating customer accounts
- Provide administrative support including documentation, reporting, route paperwork, scanning, and account accuracy (billing and forecasting)
- Depending on location, assist with accounts payable processing and other office operations
What success looks like after 90 days:
You’re confidently handling customer calls end-to-end, proactively identifying issues before they escalate, supporting retention efforts, and keeping customer and routing records accurate with minimal oversight.
What You’ll Actually Do in Your First 30 Days
- Learn EDP’s customer systems, routing processes, and service workflows through hands-on training
- Begin handling inbound customer calls independently, with guidance on more complex issues
- Partner with the General Manager to understand customer retention goals and current challenges
- Support daily route paperwork, documentation, and customer account updates to maintain clean, accurate records
Must Have
- High school diploma, GED, or equivalent experience
- 1–2 years of professional customer service experience
- Comfort handling phone-based conversations with customers about service, billing, and scheduling
- Ability to track details accurately across multiple systems and documents
- Reliable attendance and the ability to follow established processes
Nice to Have
- Experience in utilities, energy, logistics, or service-based industries
- Familiarity with billing systems, route management, or customer account maintenance
- Experience supporting retention, collections, or outbound calling campaigns
- Prior administrative or office operations experience
- Exposure to accounts payable or basic finance processes
Pay Rate: $17.00 per hour
Our Culture
We’re a growing company with deep roots in local communities, and we take pride in doing right by our customers and each other. People here are practical, supportive, and straightforward, we work hard, help when things get busy, and value trust over hierarchy.
EDP is a rapidly growing company — with deep experience in retail and commercial propane sales, operations and finance. We provide safe, reliable propane service to residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural customers from Connecticut to California.
We service more than 200,000 customers in 19 states, with a presence in rural America as well as in major metropolitan areas. We have become a significant player in the propane industry, recognized in 2022 and 2023 as one of the Top Ten Propane Marketers by LP Gas Magazine. Since our inception in 2012, EDP has helped more than 30 owners of well-run propane businesses transition to their own “next chapter” while benefiting everyone involved.
Founded
2012
Company size
501-1,000 employees
Industry
Oil and Gas
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois
EDP is a rapidly growing company — with deep experience in retail and commercial propane sales, operations and finance. We provide safe, reliable propane service to residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural customers from Connecticut to California.
We service more than 200,000 customers in 19 states, with a presence in rural America as well as in major metropolitan areas. We have become a significant player in the propane industry, recognized in 2022 and 2023 as one of the Top Ten Propane Marketers by LP Gas Magazine. Since our inception in 2012, EDP has helped more than 30 owners of well-run propane businesses transition to their own “next chapter” while benefiting everyone involved.
Founded
2012
Company size
501-1,000 employees
Industry
Oil and Gas
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois