1st Line Support – IT Service Desk Agent
Shift Times: The role is full-time (37 hour per week) You must be flexible Mon‑Fri between 7 am‑7 pm.
Pay Rate: £12.71 per hour (£13.45 after 12 weeks)
Location: Birmingham, B37 7YQ
Main responsibilities
- Manually transcribe ticket details and update from one ticketing system to another.
- Queue Management: Manage individual queues to given targets with zero intervention from Team Leader. Tasks include:
- Ticket logs are maintained in a timely and efficient manner (in line with SLAs).
- Constantly review all tickets in 1LS queues (supporting set KPIs).
- Work to aid avoidance of SLA breach on tickets.
- Manage aged tickets to closure.
- Team Working: Integrate into the team and positively contribute to team objectives and morale; demonstrate willingness to work across teams.
- Communication: Demonstrate clear and concise written, oral and listening skills, extending to communicating technical jargon in simple terms to customers in an appropriate manner.
- Problem Solving and Decision Making: Handle majority of issues and escalations, suggest resolutions with minimum prompting from 2LS / Team Leader.
- Customer Service: Demonstrate awareness of customer and business needs.
- Call/contact and Ticket Quality: Meet expected quality requirements consistently.
- Tools: Pick up the ticket logging tool and other systems used by the Service Desk consistently.
- Support DWP ASIS Resource Requests.
Requirements
- Customer service skills.
- IT skills.
- Clearance application required: minimum 5‑year UK address history. Client BPSS, and SC (security clearance) required.
What we offer
- 12‑week arrangement of 25 days annual leave per annum, which will increase to 33 days post 12 weeks.
- Staff discounts (range of lifestyle goods and services).
- Pension contribution.
- Personal Accident Insurance.
- Eye care vouchers.
- Referral Schemes.
- MyPath Development programme (Global Programme through dedicated Talent coaches guiding employees through a portal of online courses via PowerYou training portal).
Temporary ongoing contract.
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