Help Desk Tech Lead
Position: Help Desk Lead / Executive Support
Job Summary
The Help Desk Lead/Executive Support is an energetic and forward thinking person who engages with
and reviews the activities of all help desk team members to ensure that they deliver excellent customer
service and provide customer guidance. The Help Desk Lead is responsive and responsible for providing
professional, detailed and comprehensive technical support to customers. A strong customer service
mindset is the key to succeeding in this role. This hands on team lead will assist with escalations,
standardization of help desk services and procedures, along with streamlining any discovered
inefficiencies. This person will play a key role in the continued development of the IT Help Desk team.
Essential Job Duties – Responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:
Support a Secure and Stable IT environment
Utilize ticket tracking system to document all support incidents
Create and maintain detailed and complete help desk documentation
Report on metrics and KPIs for the help desk
Identify opportunities for automation and assist with the development of automation systems
to address those opportunities
Participate in research, planning, scoping, implementation and ongoing support for
projects
Manage equipment storage and life cycle including asset inventory of hardware, software and
support assets
Showcase level of expertise by providing satisfactory explanations and solution to customer
questions and issues to gain their confidence
Technical Escalation: Serve as a technical escalation point for help desk techs
Balance and prioritize multiple projects and remain calm under pressure.
Order pre-selected desktop equipment for projects, office moves and day to day inventory
Enforce IT standards and educate employees about compliance issues
Practice regular and transparent communication cc’s regarding senior staff support to End User
Technology Manager and NetTech Director
Technical Qualifications and Experience:
Required:
Expert level knowledge of desktops, laptops and Windows 10 operating system
Expert level knowledge of Microsoft Office functionality, able to support users in
different Office applications: Excel, PowerPoint, Word. VBA knowledge a big plus
Strong skills in Teams and Office 365
Strong skills in building computer images
Strong skills in mobile operating systems, iOS and Android
Mobile and Cloud Device Management
Understanding of ITIL, ticketing and asset management system
Understanding of security practices including physical, internet, and wireless security
Strong understanding of user authentication, permissions and multifactor authentication
Networking experience including a demonstrated understanding of VPN, LAN, WAN,
and wireless
Preferred:
Project management and delivery skills
Demonstrated understanding of switches, routers, and other network hardware along
with server virtualization technologies
Understanding Citrix environment and support protocols and services
Strong background in the following:
o Microsoft Active Directory User and Computer Management
o Microsoft Teams services
o Cloud technology, Azure knowledge a plus
o ServiceNow ticketing and Asset Management
Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Ability to self-motivate, work independently, and take ownership of job responsibilities
Experience in providing C-Suite white glove executive support
Proven exceptional customer service and troubleshooting skillsets
Education and Experience Requirements:
Bachelor Degree in related field
Minimum 8 years of experience within Information Technology
Minimum 4 years of documented Help Desk Team Lead/Executive Support Experience
Microsoft Certified Professional preferred
Help Desk Lead – Roles & Responsibilities
- Meet with all L2’s 1x1 in a weekly scheduled meeting to review ticket queue, blockers, etc.
- Weekly review of Asset team’s stock room inventory and then work with Procurement team to order pre-selected desktop equipment and peripherals for office moves and day to day inventory
- Technical Escalations: Serve as a technical escalation point for L1/L2/Randstad Supervisory staff/ Help Desk technicians.
- Participate in daily Teams Chat with L1/L2/L3 regarding day to day, general info sharing and escalations
- Communicate with L1 Randstad staff daily to ensure service levels are maintained and blockers are raised and addressed accordingly
- Provide Executive/Admin white glove support – Builds relationship with Exec/Admin. Have bi-weekly check-ins.
- ServiceNow queue management and reporting on metrics and trends (Daily/Weekly/Monthly) and KPIs for Help Desk. (Aged tickets, FCR, ASA, etc.).
- Quality review of work notes and comments in tickets to ensure full and complete details are documented of issue, steps taken and resolution or next steps.
- Identify opportunities for automation i.e., account creations/documentation creation, assist development of system to address these opportunities.
- Provide exceptional customer service and detailed support, transparent communication end to end. i.e., proactively open a ticket for the user, warm transfer or escalation if needed.
- Meeting weekly or more with Help Desk Manager to ensure transparent and synchronous communication on day-to-day challenges, as well as reviewing any current Executive issues.
- Review staffing schedules weekly to ensure full coverage as per the on-call schedule. Contingency for techs that are OOO for various reasons. Communicate any changes to team and update of escalation tree. Help Desk Lead will reassign tickets accordingly for continuous work to ensure no drop off in service.
- Conduct interviews and recruiting for L1/L2 staffing per our documented job descriptions.
- Meet with Help Desk Manager and other NetTech teams for collaboration on info sharing, solutioning, escalations, blockers or project work regarding L1/L2
- Establish best practices through the end to end technical support process and enforce IT standards for HW/SW/Policy & Procedure while communicating effectively to L1/L2 and end users utilizing all available tools i.e. phone, teams, e-mail, etc.
- Gather requirements from end users and other key stakeholders when investigating issues or scoping out projects to ensure existing and future technology standards are implemented.