Senior Service Desk Operator

3 weeks ago


University of Warwick, United Kingdom University of Warwick Full time

Full-time, permanent position. 36.5 hours per week.

The University of Warwick is one of the UK’s great success stories. In less than fifty years we’ve become one of the country’s best universities and can be consistently found in the top 10 of UK league tables and rapidly climbing the international rankings of world-class universities.

We have an exciting future ahead and if you have the enthusiasm and ambition to help us realise it, we would love for you to be part of it.

In this role you will play an important part in caring for our 290-hectare campus, making it a great place to learn, live, work and visit.

You will be passionate about delivering excellent service to our customers and leading a team to operate a busy Estates Service Desk. We are looking for a knowledgeable and friendly team player to join our team.

We offer excellent working conditions, training, all necessary PPE equipment, generous annual leave, pension scheme, childcare vouchers and use of the university’s leisure and cultural facilities.

Upon completion of an induction and training period, hybrid working is available.

We also have a 12 month fixed term contract opportunity available from 7th August 2023 - 5th August 2024 - details to be discussed at interview.

Interview Date: TBC.

**JOB PURPOSE**

To deliver a customer focused Service Desk for the students, staff and visitors to the University of Warwick by ensuring all maintenance requests are logged, collated and assessed for hazards from internal and external customers.

A key function of this role is to ensure customer enquiries are responded to in a timely and professional manner and to resolve any issues that occur to ensure customer satisfaction by liaising with both inhouse and third-party contactors to reported faults across campus. Customer feedback should be proactively encouraged and utilised to drive improvement opportunities within the Service Desk team and wider teams within Estates.

To support the technical aspects of the Service Desk function by producing detailed reports and analysis to key stakeholders and customers for the opportunity to review works logged, completed and the timescales involved.

**DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

2. To assist in developing and updating the Service Desk software to ensure it is suitable for use by customers and technical staff. Ensure the information held on shared systems is correct and regularly updated.

3. To track and generate orders using the SAP (System Application and Products) and Quantarc (back office) systems, for each reactive maintenance request, containing all relevant information, including known hazards, and issue to the Maintenance Supervisors in a timely manner and on a priority basis.

4. To use daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reports to produce detailed analysis of works and produce additional reports as required about maintenance orders stored on SAP and Quantarc.

5. To proactively monitor outstanding works and update customers accordingly after liaising with the relevant Trade Supervisor.

6. To be responsible for identifying requests that require urgent or emergency action and to contact the relevant Trade Supervisor and Senior Manager quickly. For campus wide emergencies act as a key communicator by sharing information in a clear and calm manner in line with business response protocols.

7. To be in regular communication with the Zone Managers and Trade Supervisors via telephone and radio to ensure emergency and urgent works are carried out quickly and for status updates.

8. To identify any maintenance issues which cannot be repaired by internal trade teams (glazing/pest control/etc.) and liaise with the appropriate colleague within Estates for resolution.

9. To retrospectively create reactive maintenance orders for out of hours requests and amend timesheets on the Quantarc system as required.

For further information about the University of Warwick, please read our University Further Particulars.

For further information about the department, please visit the departmental website.

Warwick is committed to building an organisation of mutual respect and dignity, promoting a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive working and learning environment. We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways, and that those differences are to be recognised, respected, and valued. Where possible, we go beyond legislation to provide a place where everyone can thrive, supporting all staff to achieve their full potential. We aspire to remove economic, social and cultural barriers that may otherwise prevent people from succeeding.

The University of Warwick holds an Athena SWAN Silver award; a national initiative to promote gender equality for all staff and students. Further information about the work of the University in relation to Athena SWAN can be found at the following link: Athena Swan (warwick.ac.uk)

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