What are the responsibilities and job description for the Passenger Services Agent - PT (44297) position at Lehigh Northampton Airport Authority?
Deliver exceptional customer service to passengers by providing accurate information, assistance with wheelchair support, baggage handling, and coordination of ground transportation.
Essential Functions
- Assist customers with luggage requiring lifting; push and pull passengers in wheelchairs without assistance. Assist and transport passengers in wheelchairs between curbside, ticket counters, departure gates, baggage claim, and personal vehicles; safely maneuver customers & carryon baggage weighing up to 250 pounds on inclines without assistance.
- Assist with passenger luggage between curbside, ticket counters, departure gates, baggage claim, and personal vehicles. Lift and/or move luggage up to 50 pounds and occasionally up to 99 pounds with assistance
- Provide accurate and courteous information regarding airport facilities, airline flight information, airport parking shuttle, ground transportation, hotel, concessions, and airport programs.
- Promptly report any accidents, injuries, or unsafe conditions to management.
- Ensure all passenger support equipment, including wheelchairs, luggage carts, and battery chargers are clean, sanitized, operational, and properly maintained.
- Retrieve and reposition wheelchairs and baggage carts in designated areas as needed.
- During winter months, assist customers with disabilities by helping clear snow from vehicles parked in designated accessible parking spaces.
- Adhere to all safety, security, and company policies.
Additional Responsibilities
- Deliver proactive customer service by anticipating passenger needs and providing welcoming experience with professionalism, patience, and a people-first attitude.
- Cheerfully interact in all modes of communication: face to face, two-way radio, telephone, and email.
- Maintain a strong teamwork approach by collaborating with coworkers and airport stakeholders to ensure efficient and positive passenger experiences.
- Must be able to report during emergency situations as necessary.
- Must be able to report to work during all weather conditions.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- High School Diploma or general equivalency diploma (GED).
- Customer Service experience preferred.
- PC skills include Word, Excel, Outlook and other applicable computer programs.
- Acceptable written, oral, and interpersonal skills.
Must Have
- Must be at least 18 years old.
- Must wear provided uniforms (uniforms must be clean and presentable) and personal protective equipment.
- Must be available to work split shifts, nights, weekends and holidays when required.
- Successfully pass continual training, security, and employment requirements.
- Must possess acceptable English language skills to include speaking, reading, writing and comprehension.
- Ability to regularly sit, stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, climb, balance; stoop, kneel and crouch or crawl.
- Must be able to use hands and fingers to type, handle bags, boxes, objects or controls.
- Ability to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift to 99 pounds with assistance.
- Vision abilities include, with or without corrective lenses, close, distance, color and peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
- Sufficient auditory ability, with or without audiological devices, to decipher telephone/radio communications, interact with the public and others, and hear alarms, including vehicle and other warning signals.
- Able to tolerate exposure to noise levels up to 100 decibels requiring mandatory hearing protection.
- Able and willing to work in inclement weather, including extreme cold and warm temperatures.