Service Desk Engineer – West Midlands Fire Service

Company: National Fire Chiefs Council Limited.
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Location: Birmingham
Job Description:

West Midlands Fire Service (WMFS) is the second largest fire and rescue service in England, serving an area of 902km square and a population of more than 2.9 million people.

Our vision is ‘Making the West Midlands safer, stronger and healthier’.

This vision and the strategic goals outlined in ‘Our Strategy’ are what drives the people, professionalism and pride with which we serve our communities.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Service Desk Engineer to join our team and work alongside colleagues in the Service Operations team.

This first line role will be based at our headquarters in Birmingham, but will offer some flexible working.You will need to be a fast learner and show great initiative to develop the knowledge moving forwards to support our end-users.

You will need to be experienced in providing support to users in an Office 365 environment. In addition, you should have significant experience of supporting users with Windows 10/11.

Responsibilities

  • take ownership of user incidents and service requests to successful resolution, with emphasis on service delivery
  • acknowledge, triage and manage service contacts received via multiple contact channels
  • ensure that all contacts received by Service Desk are recorded within the dedicated ITSM software tool
  • contribute to the ‘Problem Management’ process within Service Operations, ensuring that reoccurring incidents are identified in the Incident management process and appropriately passed through to Problem Management
  • liaise with second line support teams to identify resolution for incident and service requests. Where appropriate, reassign tickets to second line for technical resolution
  • liaise with third party providers to ensure incidents are resolved in line with their Service Level Agreement
  • manage and deliver key service rollouts/upgrades of hardware and software.

Experience and skills

  • knowledge of supporting Microsoft Operating systems, Windows 10/11
  • knowledge of supporting Office 365
  • ability to produce both technical and user documentation
  • self-motivated and conscientious, with excellent attention to detail
  • a can‑do, proactive attitude with a passion for delivering excellent service delivery
  • able to work flexible hours on a shift rota basis, often supporting short notice changes
  • problem solving – ability to listen and analyse information, to facilitate technical solutions
  • ability to work proactively in a customer-focused team
  • ability to work in a fast‑paced, pressured environment with minimal supervision.
  • experience of using cloud‑based automatic call distribution systems
  • ability to manage calls in line with established Service Level Agreements

Contract type: Full Time

Closing date: July 10 2026

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Posted: July 1st, 2026