French Speaking 1st Line Support
Peterborough (Cambridgeshire) IT development
Job description
Location
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
· Salary
£ 20000 - £ 24000 / Year
· Category
IT - Helpdesk, Technical Support
· Job type
Permanent
· Industry
IT and Telecoms
· External Reference
F1ST.MR
Job Title
FRENCH SPEAKING: 1 st Line Analyst - Service Desk
Department
Service Desk
Responsible For
Answering incoming contacts from customers and to accurately log incidents ensuring all relevant data is captured whilst logging the incident. To provide a single point of contact to our customers and to ensure that incidents are fully managed through to resolution.
Responsible To
Service Operations Team Leader
Main Purpose of Job
· 1 st Line Support of Wintel / Retail and Hardware related incidents.
· Accurately log incidents and ensure all relevant data is captured whilst logging the incident.
· Regularly updating incidents logged on the Incident Management system and provide end users with a technical solution within Service Level Agreements.
· Proactively keeping Customers informed on incident or request status and progress.
· Escalate incidents where a first time fix is not possible to either 2 nd line support or the relevant resolver group.
· Adhering to Incident management procedures.
· Monitor, progress, and resolve incidents whilst ensuring customer satisfaction through proactive updates, frequent contact and escalation where necessary.
· Resolve >60% of incidents logged as a First Time Fix
· Keeping up to date with the current standard procedures.
· Proactively maintain and develop knowledge, skills and experience through client contact, industry sources, formalised training and development plan.
· Provide a point of technical escalation and expertise.
· Escalate potential service issues initially with Team Leader/Service Desk Manager /Service Delivery Manager
· Escalate potential problem issues with Problem and Incident Management.
· Act as a role model for technical competence, helpfulness, facilitation of learning and teamwork.
· Contributing to team meetings.
Knowledge & Experience
· Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Maths and English.
· Good knowledge of IT platforms, equipment and applications.
· Proven Customer service skills
· Up to 6 months' experience as an analyst within a similar environment
· Industry recognised qualifications in relevant area is desirable (i.e. MCP)
· Up to 6 months remote support experience of
· Windows Operating Systems (Essential)
· Citrix (Desirable)
· Cisco Telephony Systems (Desirable)
· Hardware troubleshooting of both desktop and server hardware. (Desirable)
· Application support of applications from major vendors such as Netapp, Cisco, Microsoft, etc (Desirable)
· Knowledge of supporting various windows applications including MS Office from end user perspective (Desirable)
· Understanding of the ITIL framework and knowledge of the various associated disciplines is desirable
· Experience of working to SLAs and KPIs and to be able to accurately describe their purpose is desirable.
Personal Attributes
· Positive, enthusiastic and supportive individual.
· Effective communication skills.
· Ability to take ownership of and progress incidents to resolution.
· Communication and interpersonal skills including listening, building rapport, establishing empathy whilst demonstrating awareness of internal and external issues in a calm and polite manner.
· Ability to work under pressure and apply existing knowledge to unknown areas.
· Ability to work in a team and to support team members.
· Structured troubleshooting skills and inquisitive nature.
· Passionate, professional, with a 'can-do' attitude at all times
· Proactive thinking
· Problem management and Problem solving
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