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ABC Joburg is a sister company of ABC Worldwide. Based in Sandton, the team of recruiters is focused on candidates and roles in and around Johannesburg.
The City of Gold
Johannesburg is a centre of mining, manufacturing, and finance. All the mining houses are headquartered in the city, as is the Chamber of Mines, which regulates the industry. Local factories in Johannesburg and on the East Rand produce a great variety of goods ranging from textiles to specialty steels. A substantial engineering sector serves the needs of the mining industry. Virtually all the country’s banks, insurance companies, and building societies have their head offices in the city. The Johannesburg Stock Exchange, founded in 1887 to raise capital for deep-level mining, lists more than 600 companies.
While Pretoria, the South African capital, is only 40 miles to the north, most state ministries have offices in Johannesburg. Many foreign countries retain consular facilities, largely to service the needs of overseas firms, hundreds of which operate in the city.
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Job Title
German Technical Support Executive - HelpdeskEmployment Type
Full TimeExperience
2 to 4 yearsSalary
NegotiableJob Published
05 October 2022Job Reference No.
387634102Job Description
Brief Job description
- Provide 1st level technical support
- Service restoration
- Fulfillment of service request and advice to users ensuring the maximum availability, performance and utilization of knowledge and information systems
- Follow a systematic, disciplined and analytical approach to problem solving to meet set standards and agreed procedures
- Executes transactions as per prescribed timelines
- Provide 1st measure analysis of issues and inputs for problem management
- Leverages best effort method for issue resolution through cross functional coordination
- Support team lead in training, reviews and escalation handling
Requirements
Analytical and Problem solving skills
- Active listening and questioning, an eye for detail to determine the root cause of the issue, to avoid repeat contacts and further effort to resolve issues
- Analytical problem solvers who will understand issues, evaluate solutions and work with their colleagues to resolve issues
- Problem solving skills and quick thinking to own & resolve issues independently, thoroughly & efficiently
- Display ownership and accountability
- Quickly build trust and confidence with customer
- Own and resolve customer issues efficiently, effectively and empathetically
Mandatory requirement for experienced candidates:
- 24 months’ work experience in Service Desk/ Tech support process providing remote support for Laptops / Desktops / LAN Issues / Application support/ Small Forms etc.
- Intermediate knowledge of T/S OS (Windows XP-10), Browsers, MS Office suite
- Intermediate knowledge of T/S Small Forms (iOS, Andrioid, Windows)
- Experience of working within a busy ICT Service Desk environment, showing experience of systems, support, diagnostic and resolution.
- Intermediate knowledge of Registry Fix, Patch upgrades, Virus T/S, Security, Encryptions
- Intermediate knowledge of Network collaborations & VPN T/S
- Basic networking knowledge
Additional Preferred skills:
- PBX Administration Avaya or similar
- Anti-Virus & IT Security best practices implementation & administration
- Process compliance Knowledge of the ITIL Framework
- Knowledge of McAfee products
Time Management Skills
- Being proactive and show the utmost respect for customer’s time
- Good time management, ensuring all contacts with customers add value
- Ability to Multitask
Communication & Relationships Skills
- To deliver a first line support service via the Service Desk, receiving incidents and service requests from various routes including telephone, web tickets, chat and e mail
- Offering advice to end users on all IT related areas. This will include working as part of a team, in order to share knowledge and work together to increase performance standards
Skills & Knowledge
- Communicate at all levels
- Ability to work across organizational and professional boundaries
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- High level of interpersonal skills, including active listening and understanding
- Good organizational skills and ability to prioritize workloads.
- Work to tight deadlines / service levels
- Business etiquette
- Broad knowledge of IT products, services and terminology
Aptitudes
- Identification of problems and solutions
- Analysis of data
- Presentation of technical functionality to a non-technical audience
- Working knowledge of MS Office products
- General support knowledge of Operating systems across various platforms, general productivity applications like MS outlook, MS excel, Lotus Notes etc.
- Ability to work as pat of a team or on own initiative.
- Customer focused
- Proactive
- Self-Motivated
- Patient
- Innovative
- Flexible
Job duties and responsibilities
- To improve user confidence in the areas of computer hardware & software, applications, being empathetic to a variety of new and experienced learners needs
- Help to implement and improve processes and procedures within the team allowing strong service focused deliverables
- Actively troubleshoot to identify, assess, record, resolve and / or escalate incidents and service requests ensuring they are handled within an agreed time limit, within agreed processes and in a professional and customer sensitive manner
- To participate in an on call rota, providing a 24 hours, first line support service to users
- To deliver a first line support service via the Service Desk, receiving incidents and service requests from various routes including telephone, intranet and e mail
- Update incidents with detailed and relevant information in a timely and effective manner
- Provide updates to customers with regards to specific incidents and manage a trouble ticket through to resolution
- Escalate an incident or troubleshoot tickets according to the company escalation processes;
- Ensure Customer Service Level Agreements are met or exceeded
- Respond to customer enquiries in a timely and efficient manner
- Ensure appropriate documentation of the interaction on the customer’s account in the prescribed format
- Execute transactions as per prescribed guidelines and timelines
- Ensure customer/user confidentiality and data protection at all times
Education and other requirements
- Engineering Graduate/ B.Sc. Computer Science / or Graduate with any technical degree/ diploma required.
- ITIL trained preferred
- Willingness to work in rotational shifts