ITRM Ltd
1st Line Technical Support Analyst
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The Role
Reporting to the Service Delivery Manager, your main duties will be to ensure the progression and swift resolution of tickets logged with the Service Desk and delivering superior services in line with Service Level Agreements, managing client expectations throughout.
As an analyst on the Service Desk, you will act as the first point of contact for customers who report incidents and log service requests. The primary objective of the role is to provide first-time resolution, achieved by troubleshooting, diagnosing, and resolving problems at the first point of contact and/or escalating the fault to one of our specialist teams to investigate and resolve.
Throughout the process, you will remain the single point of contact with the customer, maintaining ownership of the original fault and acting as the main point of contact between the customer and ITRM, and will provide timely updates, ensuring the fault is assigned the correct level of priority and attention.
This is a demanding support position, which calls for excellent customer service skills, the ability to articulate solutions clearly and confidently to end users, and possess a broad technical knowledge across a range of technologies.
General Summary
- Administering and supporting the customer’s infrastructure
- Delivering first-line support
- Acting as the first point of contact for customers
- Demonstrating the ability to troubleshoot and resolve support issues within agreed SLA
- Providing regular, clear communication to customers
- Diagnosing and resolving incidents to the customer’s satisfaction
The Department
The IT Service Desk is made up of a team of engineers covering all support tiers and abilities, from 1st line apprentice engineers through to 3rd line engineers. We also have a team of consultancy resources; however, they do not work permanently on the Service Desk.
The Service Desk, based in Sidcup, is responsible for the provision of IT services and support to 100+ clients across the UK. The successful candidate will be required to work closely with Sales and Account Managers, Consultancy, Business Operations, and other members of the Service Delivery team.
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Duties and Responsibilities
- Handle customer incidents and service requests in a professional, courteous manner over the phone and via email
- Take ownership of incidents and manage them in a logical and methodical manner
- Correctly logging incidents, problems, and service requests, categorizing and prioritizing them in line with team procedures
- Conducting full and thorough diagnostics with end users to enable first-point-of-contact incident resolution
- Ensuring all faults are progressed and resolved within SLA, escalating to other internal and external teams as appropriate
- Managing incidents and requests through their entire lifecycle from the first point of contact through to resolution, proactively keeping the customer informed of progress
- Diagnosing and resolving incidents to the customer’s satisfaction
- Identify and escalate repeat issues or service risks to the Service Delivery Manager where necessary
- Manage a number of scheduled tasks for customers, designed to ensure that the customers' systems remain operational
- Keep operational documentation up to date
Site Visits and Core Responsibilities (T1 IT Engineer)
- The Employee shall perform scheduled on-site visits to customer and company facilities to install, configure, troubleshoot, and maintain IT hardware, software, and network systems, ensuring adherence to service level agreements and escalating complex issues to senior support as required.
- Expected response and resolution times during on-site visits to meet SLA targets
- Requirement to document all activities, findings, and resolutions in the company ticketing system
- Obligations around customer communication, professionalism, and adherence to site safety and security policies
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Technical Skills
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Windows 7–10 and Mac OS
- Basic knowledge of user administration (Active Directory, AzureAD, Exchange, Office365)
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Office suite
- Good understanding of workstation builds and configuration
- Hardware troubleshooting
Person Specification
- A strong desire and focus on continued improvements and personal development
- A desire to be part of an overall team and achieve team goals
- To continually strive to improve overall firm effectiveness
- Proven ability to work under pressure and with other people
- Work with a sense of urgency
- Attention to detail
- A clear and friendly telephone manner
- Ability to multi-task
- Must be able to demonstrate a ‘customer first’ approach to support
- Flexible and willing to work outside core business hours as required
- Strong communicator
This job description indicates the general nature and level of work performed within this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required. You will also be expected to undertake duties which may not be listed on this job description as directed by your line manager which will be deemed as reasonable within the scope of the role.
Salary/Benefits
- Annual salary depending upon experience
- Paid overtime or time off in lieu
- Out of hours support rota, paid as a retainer. Please note that this is primarily for 2nd line analysts and above, but 1st line analysts may be required on occasions
- Working hours on a shift basis as follows:
- 07:00 am until 3:45 pm
- 08:45 am until 5:30 pm
- 09:15 am until 6:00 pm
- Contributory pension scheme (after 3 months service and successful completion of probationary period)
- Twenty-five days annual leave
- Birthday Leave
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