Description
Position summary
The Northwest Center @ Amazon team operates in a fast-paced and demanding corporate environment where we provide professional 5-star customer service across several program divisions. The Receptionist is Amazon’s face and voice to its clients and their guests. In this role, you will provide 5-star customer service and have an obsession for customer satisfaction.
Are you looking for an excellent career in an exciting corporate environment? As our Lead receptionists, you will lead day to day administrative activities and tasks including greeting and checking in guests, distributing badges, providing resources to callers, and assisting with projects and audits. Your team of receptionists are solution providers and seek to provide a memorable customer centric experience through each interaction and you will be a key motivator and leader. This position is located onsite in Amazon’s South Lake Union, Bellevue and Redmon campuses.
Location: Seattle (with flexibility to work in Bellevue & Redmond when needed)
Schedule: Monday through Friday, 7:20AM – 3:50PM and 9:35AM - 6:05PM (must have open availability to work both shifts as scheduled)
Wage: Starting Wage: $29.19 per hour | Full Wage Range: $29.19 - $34.73 per hour
What we can offer:
- Competitive and affordable Medical (including hearing & hardware coverage!), Dental, Vision, Disability, and Life Insurance
- 17 Accrued Paid Time Off Days Annually
- Additional 11 Annual Floating Holidays, Parental Leave, and Paid Compassion Leave
- Retirement 401(K) with a company match
- Company-Provided Orca Pass – Unlimited use
- Employment Assistance Program (EAP) via Spring Health
- Mental Wellness Program including six free therapy sessions per year
- Opportunity for career development with our NWC Mentorship Match program
- Physical Wellness Reimbursement Program - $25/month
- Student Loan Contribution Program - $50/month
- Pet Insurance Discount Program
Key responsibilities / Essential Functions
- Lead day-to-day operations of the reception desks.
- Conduct Deskside Training when needed and provide input to Business Analytics regarding continuous improvement.
- Provide (or direct) roaming receptionist tasks.
- Report and execute reception operations consistent with established SLAs.
- Team with peer Lead Receptionists to ensure consistent experiences across Prides.
- Be attentive and provide exceptional, professional customer service to Amazonians,
clients, contractors, and visitors.
Support and Guide Receptionists:
- Collaborate with peer Lead Receptionists to ensure consistency across the Reception Team.
- Participate in Receptionist hiring.
- Coach and develop to facilitate success in current role and readiness for potential growth into other roles.
- Provide input to Supervisors regarding Receptionist performance.
Needed experience & requirements
Education
Experience
Required Experience:
- Experience leading people.
- Experience operating a front desk environment.
- Positive, upbeat attitude and able to get along with everyone.
- Must be reliable and punctual with excellent organizational skills.
- Must have demonstrated ability to juggle multiple priorities.
Preferred Experience:
- Above average communication skills preferred.
- Experience using MS Office suite of products preferred
Demonstrable Skills
- Commitment to Northwest Center’s mission of inclusion and ability to successfully work in a diverse environment.
- Excellent in-person customer service skills.
- Ability to practice a high level of confidentiality.
- Ability to maintain composure and good judgment in fast-paced, high-stress environments.
- Attention to detail and accuracy.
Working Conditions & Physical demands
- Must be able to potentially lift or carry items up to 50 pounds.
- May need to carry supplies to other buildings.
- The position requires standing and mobility around the campus for long periods of time up to the entire length of the shift.
- Ability to work independently and out of line of sight from other team members for all or part of shift.
- Ability to work on a tablet/computer.
- Ability to read, write, speak and comprehend the English language.
- Ability to see both distance and details at close range, within a few feet of the observer (with or without corrective lenses).
- Ability to identify and understand the speech of another person (with or without a personal auditory hearing device).
- Ability to work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of the business, including occasionally arriving early, staying late on a moment’s notice and occasional evening.
This is a dog friendly environment with over 1000 dogs on campus. Individuals with dog allergies or those who do not particularly care for dogs may not be the best fit.
About Northwest Center
When People of all Abilities Learn and Work Together, Everyone Benefits. The purpose of Northwest Center is to change society so that people of all abilities engage with each other fully in classrooms, workplaces, and the community. Legally structured as a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation, Northwest Center is more broadly a "for-purpose" organization that uses and blends the best techniques of human services, business, and philanthropy in innovative ways.
As a social enterprise organization, Northwest Center proves to the world every day that employing people of all abilities can be a powerful competitive advantage. Northwest Center’s businesses generate over $5 million annually that Northwest Center reinvests into human services while covering 100% of the overhead expense of the organization and building cash reserves for future sustainability.
Northwest Center’s mission is to promote the growth, development, and independence of people with disabilities through programs of therapy, education, and work opportunity
Northwest Center is committed to offering reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us at [email protected].
At Northwest Center, we do not just accept diversity and inclusion — we celebrate it, support it, live it, and flourish in it to benefit our employees, the community, and our clientele. We believe that our strength lies within our diversity and the forward motion towards a day when people of all abilities can learn and work together.
We believe that curiosity and critical thinking are essential to the dialogue and improving decision-making, planning, resource allocation, and how we treat others. Our goal is to create and implement more equitable practices, policies, and culture. To be equitable means to value and respect individuals from all cultural backgrounds, genders, races, identities, and abilities. Northwest Center is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, including disability and veterans’ status.
