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Job Title: Service Desk Agent
Grade: A3
Reports to: Digital Service Desk Team Lead
Grade: B3
Job Purpose Summary
As a team, our vision is to create an everyday digital experience for the people we serve - our customers - by putting them at the heart of everything we do. As part of our award-winning team, you’ll help the business become an intelligent, connected organisation in order to deliver our digital transformation and turnaround as part of the Service Desk team.
The purpose of this role is to provide an excellent IT service to Thames Water Employees and Contractors, using different communication channels and providing onsite support through our Digital Drop-in Clinics at Primary locations.
The team will establish and execute a strategy for Digital User Services, building, maintaining, and supporting it as required to meet business requirements as well as using a shift left methodology to utilise more automation, self-service, and provide efficient services to our users.
We are also adding additional services to Critical sites, plus attending roadshows and support smaller mobile sites. This is part of our Digital Drop-in clinics that will have empowered and skilled agents in place onsite to get users back up and running as quickly as possible.
This is a chance for you to work in our innovative creative office space where you will be able to visually demonstrate your skills, ideas, and insights openly. This is a challenging role which requires you to help deliver the best next generation services to all our customers. Working within our team will enable you to make a difference and take advantage of fantastic career progression and opportunities within the IT department.
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Main Accountabilities / Outputs
- You’ll be providing an excellent IT customer experience to the required standards, working closely with the Incident Management Request Fulfilment team to improve the quality of information to be used by 3rd party support teams to improve the incident resolution times.
- Contribute to team success, by demonstrating Thames Water values, sharing knowledge and best practice.
- Being the first-time contact for IT issues from the Thames Water user community, also providing support to management.
- Receiving, logging, and managing calls from internal employees via telephone, email, self-service, and Digital Drop-in Clinics.
- Continually improving the incident resolution times and identifying opportunities to increase first time fix rate.
- 1st and 2nd line support - troubleshooting of IT related incidents from in-house software, O365 suite to hardware issues such as mobile phones, Laptops, PCs, printers etc.
- Take ownership of user incidents and follow up the status of incidents on behalf of the user and communicate progress in a timely manner.
- Within the Digital Drop-in Clinic, providing hands-on support, swapping out of IT equipment. This can grow to office and equipment moves, taking ownership of user incidents, and follow up on the status of incidents on behalf of the user, and communicating progress in a timely manner.
- Update the Service Now ticketing system, ensuring the call has been logged and all notes, progress, and required actions have been input promptly and accurately.
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Qualification and Experience Required
- Professional qualifications desirable (ITIL)
- ServiceNow knowledge a bonus but not essential
- Knowledge of Security processes
- Knowledge of the following key technologies:
- Windows 10
- Windows 11
- Office365
- SCCM
- Intune
- Azure/Active Directory
- MFA
- SSPR
- PowerBI
- LAPS
- Bitlocker
Personal Attributes Required
- The successful candidate will possess significant relevant customer-facing experience and IT technical skills.
- You’ll have excellent customer service skills and telephone manner and will have some experience in an IT Service Desk role and have excellent organizational skills.
- You’ll possess well-developed interpersonal skills, and outstanding communication skills (verbal, listening, written, and tone) and you’ll be a self-motivated achiever who gains satisfaction from providing excellent customer service.
- Experience of working in a fast-paced office environment, with the ability to work under pressure and manage multiple tasks at any one time.
- Excellent time management and organizational skills with the ability to meet deadlines and be responsive to staff needs.
- Ability to think and work independently, and as part of a team and to take responsibility.
- Positive and robust attitude with a high level of personal motivation
- Flexible approach to working
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