IT Analyst

Company description:

Who is Amey?

• We are at the heart of modern Britain, helping the economy to grow by designing, maintaining and transforming the nation’s strategic assets.
• Our 11,000 people are behind the critical services the country relies on every day.
• Our unique engineering and operations experience, together with data driven insight from our consulting business, delivers better results for our clients.
• We are trusted partners of Government – both national and local – managing assets and complex projects that are vital to the sustainable growth of the country.

Job description:

Your New Role 

We have a fantastic opportunity for a 1st Line Service Desk Analyst to join our Group IT Team in Liverpool (Matchworks office). This role offers Hybrid working.

The 1st Line Service Desk Analyst plays an important part in providing 1st and 2nd line IT support functions to Amey internal staff and external partners. They provide technical advice and support in relation to all Group IT deployed hardware and software. Logging incidents and requests on behalf of our customers and ensuring compliance with the departments policies and processes.

The Service Desk also liaise with our technical resolver groups to ensure the timely resolution of incidents and requests which cannot be fixed at the first point of contact, ensuring that our strict Service Level Agreements are met.

Service Desk are the face of IT, and we rely on them to provide outstanding customer service in all aspects of their work. They live by five simple rules:

• Understand and uphold our IT service commitments.
• Leave a good impression: Every customer interaction matters.
• Be transparent: manage demand by setting and meeting expectations.
• Take ownership: follow up and follow through.
• Work as a team be supportive, work together and hand on tasks.

The standard hours of work are based on 37.5 hours per week Monday – Friday.

You will be responsible for:

• Helping build on our image as the friendly and approachable face of IT.
• Providing outstanding customer service
• Providing advice and assistance to our customers, partners, and suppliers
• Being the primary point of contact for all incidents and requests
• Ensuring detailed and accurate information is captured at the first point of contact.
• Providing initial troubleshooting and diagnostics capabilities
• Maintaining our strong first-time fix rates.
• Ensuring incidents/requests are assigned to the correct technical resolver groups.
• Prioritising and categorising incidents in line with our existing processes.
• Assisting in the handling and management of Major Incidents and outages
• Contributing to our ethos of continuous service improvement
• Promoting a strong working relationship between the Service Desk, our technical resolver groups, partners, and suppliers

Profile description:

We want to hear from you if you have:

• Qualified up to GCSE level (minimum of 5 GCSEs A-C)
• Experience in working in a busy IT service desk environment
• Strong Customer service skills and experience
• Detail orientated
• Approachable, patient, and friendly
• Excellent communication skills
• An awareness of ITIL and common IT functions.
• An understanding of how IT can help facilitate business goal and objectives.
• A basic understanding of PC hardware
• Experience of remote assistance tools, including Microsoft Remote Assistance, RDP and LogMeIn.
• An understanding of basic networking principle (TCP/IP, DNS, WINS, DHCP).
• A good working knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite (2016, O365).
• A good understanding of Active Directory (On Prem and Azure)
• Demonstrable experience of delivering outstanding customer service under pressure.
• Willingness and ability to be SC cleared if required.
• Desire to learn about Operational Security and how to handle initial investigations and corrective actions.

We offer:

What we can offer you

When you join us, we can offer flexibility, career development, a choice of benefits and support that help you through all life’s ups and downs. It’s the reason why Investors in People put us among the top 1% of employers and we have a competitive reward and benefits program

• Career Development - Exceptional development and progression plan
• Pension – Generous Pension scheme which we will contribute to
• Holidays - Minimum 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays
• Choices - Our flexible benefits scheme is tailored by you, including buying additional annual leave, cycle2work scheme, charity giving and gym membership
• Save with Amey - Our online voucher portal gives you access to thousands of discounts from leading retailers to help you save on shopping, days out, or nights in. It includes healthcare, free GP service, dental vouchers
• Social Value - You’ll get 2 Community Involvement Days each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice and further opportunities to support fundraising initiatives

We embrace difference and support individuals to work in ways that work best for them.

We are committed to working sustainably and by working in partnership with the communities we serve, so people and the planetare protected.