Dispatcher / Service Coordinator for HVAC
Service Coordinator / Dispatcher
This position is primarily based out of Temp Air Control’s Alliston office. A hybrid work arrangement, including a combination of in-office and work-from-home days, may be available depending on the candidate’s experience, training requirements, role fit, and ability to work independently.Temp Air Control is looking for a full-time Service Coordinator / Dispatcher to support our HVAC, refrigeration, and building automation service team.
This role is central to the daily flow of our service department. The Service Coordinator / Dispatcher helps manage incoming service requests, schedules technicians, updates work orders, follows up with customers, tracks open work, and ensures the right information is captured so jobs can move from request to completion as smoothly as possible.
The ideal candidate is organized, professional, comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, and able to communicate clearly with customers, technicians, managers, vendors, and internal departments.
This position reports to the Service Manager and works closely with dispatch, field staff, accounting, payroll, sales, construction, and controls.
Key Areas of Responsibility
Service Coordination and Dispatch
- Receive and coordinate incoming service requests from customers, managers, technicians, and customer portals.
- Schedule and dispatch technicians for service calls, preventative maintenance, quoted repairs, project support, and follow-up work.
- Assign work based on technician availability, location, skill set, urgency, and customer requirements.
- Maintain the daily dispatch schedule and update it as priorities change throughout the day.
- Perform daily technician check-ins and check-outs to confirm job status, next steps, additional appointments, and schedule changes.
- Track open calls, return visits, incomplete work, pending parts, quoted work, and outstanding service requirements.
- Help maintain the on-call schedule and support after-hours service coverage planning where required.
- Create, update, track, and close work orders in the company ERP / service management system.
- Ensure work orders are properly documented with labour, materials, technician notes, customer signatures, job status, and supporting information.
- Review completed work orders and follow up on missing or incomplete information before invoicing.
- Maintain accurate customer, site, equipment, contact, and service history records.
- Keep electronic and hardcopy records organized and up to date.
- Support system accuracy by ensuring service calls, appointments, job notes, and customer information are entered correctly.
- Communicate professionally with customers by phone and email regarding service requests, appointment times, technician arrival updates, and job status.
- Proactively follow up with customers on scheduled work, outstanding items, and service updates.
- Address customer inquiries and concerns promptly and escalate issues when required.
- Act as a communication link between customers, technicians, service managers, vendors, and internal departments.
- Work with the Service Manager to relay and resolve customer or technician concerns in a timely manner.
- Review customer web portals daily to monitor new service requests, updates, documentation requirements, and outstanding items.
- Ensure portal requests are acknowledged, tracked, and actioned so that no service request is missed or delayed.
- Verify that service work orders have required customer purchase orders where applicable.
- Escalate missing purchase orders or documentation issues to the appropriate manager.
- Assist with creating purchase orders, coordinating vendors, and tracking materials or parts.
- Prepare and coordinate customer-required documents, safety documentation, permits, Form 1000s, Notices of Project, and other site-specific documentation as needed.
- Perform weekly spot checks to confirm technicians have current access to required customer portals, site systems, tools, and platforms. Escalate access issues as needed.
- Coordinate with service, construction, controls, sales, procurement, accounting, billing, payroll, and management to support daily operations.
- Assist with payroll review by verifying technician time, job allocation, and related documentation.
- Assist with technician expense tracking, travel charges, and supporting documentation.
- Support onboardin