Customer Account Representative

Job Title: Customer Account Representative Job Description
The Customer Account Representative resolves complex customer issues while managing product and service orders in a fast-paced, aerospace-focused environment. This role partners closely with customers and internal teams to ensure accurate order entry, timely fulfillment, and exceptional service, while maintaining strict compliance with company policies, procedures, and applicable consumer laws.
Responsibilities
- Deliver excellent customer service through clear communication, proactive problem resolution, and timely follow-up.
- Resolve complex customer issues by applying detailed knowledge of customer accounts, products, and services.
- Maintain up-to-date and accurate account information, ensuring all customer details and interactions are properly documented.
- Ensure all customer complaints are resolved effectively and in compliance with consumer laws, company policies, and established procedures.
- Collaborate with internal departments, including operations, production, and sales, to meet customer needs and maintain strong customer relationships.
- Utilize ERP and CRM systems daily to organize customer information, manage orders, track status, and document activities.
- Generate, process, and manage customer orders, including order entry, pricing, quoting, and timeline coordination for multiple customers.
- Monitor and manage order timelines to ensure on-time delivery and alignment with customer expectations.
- Develop and implement improvement plans in response to customer survey feedback and industry trends to enhance overall customer experience.
- Coordinate with internal departments to resolve and close actions within a web-based database portal, ensuring adherence to company procedures.
- Exercise consistent independent judgment when addressing customer issues, making decisions, and prioritizing tasks.
- Maintain timely and professional email communication with customers and internal stakeholders, ensuring thorough follow-up on all open items.
- Support inside sales activities by identifying opportunities, assisting with quotes, and contributing to customer retention and growth.
- Adhere to all export compliance and applicable U.S. government contracting eligibility requirements associated with the role.
- Perform other related duties as assigned to support the broader customer service and account management function.
Essential Skills
- 24 years of relevant experience in customer service, order entry, inside sales, or order processing, including 23 years of experience managing multiple customers, orders, timelines, pricing, and quoting.
- Demonstrated ability to provide expertise in resolving complex customer issues using sound judgment and standard practices.
- Daily working experience with ERP systems; SAP experience is preferred or other comparable ERP experience.
- Experience using CRM systems for customer and account management; Salesforce CRM experience is preferred.
- Strong attention to detail with a high level of accuracy in order entry, documentation, and follow-up.
- Highly organized with the ability to multitask and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Proven ability to work collaboratively with others and ensure accountability to drive tasks and actions to completion.
- Ability to analyze information, identify problems, and solve issues of a more complex nature using specialized knowledge and standard practices.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with strong interpersonal skills to build relationships and influence outcomes.
- Proficiency with Microsoft applications (such as Outlook, Excel, Word) and database management tools.
- Thorough understanding of standard customer account concepts, practices, and procedures.
- A Secondary Certificate/High School Diploma is required.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
- Post-secondary degree is a plus.
- Experience in the aerospace industry is a plus.
- Familiarity with aerospace customer requirements, timelines, and quality expectations is beneficial.
- Experience working with organized production or manufacturing environments is advantageous.
- Demonstrated ability to interpret customer feedback and industry trends to develop improvement plans.
- Comfort working with web-based database portals and internal workflow systems.
- Eligibility to meet applicable U.S. export compliance and/or U.S. government contracting citizenship requirements associated with this role.
Work Environment
This role operates within a global aerospace engineering and manufacturing setting that features an organized, cellular production environment and a light technical work atmosphere. The facility is clean and equipped with a variety of production and testing machinery, providing close interaction with manufacturing and engineering teams. You will work extensively with ERP and CRM systems, Microsoft applications, and web-based database tools while supporting customers in a fast-growing aerospace industry. The environment emphasizes structure, process adherence, and continuous improvement, and offers strong advancement opportunities for individuals who thrive in a professional, collaborative, and technology-driven workplace.
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Portland, OR.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $25.00 - $28.00/hr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job
classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be
subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:

Medical, dental & vision
Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
Short and long-term disability
Health Spending Account (HSA)
Transportation benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in Portland,OR.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Oct 16, 2026.

About Aston Carter

Aston Carter provides world-class corporate talent solutions to thousands of clients across the globe. Specialized in accounting, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, procurement, supply chain and select administrative professions, we extend the capabilities of industry-leading companies. We draw on our deep recruiting expertise and expansive network to meet the evolving needs of our clients and talent community with agility and excellence. With offices across the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe, Aston Carter serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® Platinum Award winner for both client and talent service.

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