Job description
Overview:
RM is the leading supplier of technology and resources to the education sector, supporting schools, teachers and learners, enabling the improvement of educational outcomes worldwide. We work across the industry from pre-school to higher education and professional qualification, our customers include schools, examination boards, central governments and other professional institutions. We have a clear purpose to enrich the lives of learners worldwide.
At RM Technology, you’ll have the chance to build a career supporting and empowering our future generation. Join us to build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better learning environment for young people.
The opportunity
The IT Support Engineer function has an important role to play in helping teachers to teach and learners to learn. As one of a team of IT Support Engineers your role will be to provide a first-class level of support to education users. Working to ITIL best practices you will strive to work collaboratively with the service desk to meet contractual SLA targets, escalating where appropriate but always ensuring that the customer is kept up to date. The role will suit someone who enjoys solving IT problems through excellent troubleshooting and supporting users who may not necessarily have IT backgrounds.
We can offer you a competitive salary + Benefits
Responsibilities:
Your key responsibilities:
As well as a competitive salary, you could earn a performance related bonus and you would receive our core benefits package which includes private medical healthcare, life assurance and a Group Personal Pension Plan with higher contribution levels available.
There are lots of voluntary benefits too. You could buy additional annual leave, join our dental plan, sign for a health assessment or take part in our cycle to work scheme. You could even earn yourself an extra bonus for successfully recommending a friend or family member for a position within RM.
At RM we are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve, and to creating an inclusive and flexible workplace where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit.
RM is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all permanent and temporary staff to share this commitment. This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and all successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks along with other relevant employment checks.
At RM we recently introduced My Work Blend @RM which provides office based colleagues with multi location and hybrid working. As well as your office base you can spend a proportion of your time working at other locations that suit your role and your life, including home, other offices, customer sites, distribution centres or on the move. We encourage you to discuss arrangements for this role with your potential line manager during the recruitment process. We expect how we make best use of hybrid working may continue to adapt as we adjust to our new ways of working.
About RM
RM is the leading supplier of technology and resources to the education sector, supporting schools, teachers and learners, enabling the improvement of educational outcomes worldwide. We work across the industry from pre-school to higher education and professional qualification, our customers include schools, examination boards, central governments and other professional institutions. We have a clear purpose to enrich the lives of learners worldwide.
At RM Technology, you’ll have the chance to build a career supporting and empowering our future generation. Join us to build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better learning environment for young people.
The opportunity
The IT Support Engineer function has an important role to play in helping teachers to teach and learners to learn. As one of a team of IT Support Engineers your role will be to provide a first-class level of support to education users. Working to ITIL best practices you will strive to work collaboratively with the service desk to meet contractual SLA targets, escalating where appropriate but always ensuring that the customer is kept up to date. The role will suit someone who enjoys solving IT problems through excellent troubleshooting and supporting users who may not necessarily have IT backgrounds.
We can offer you a competitive salary + Benefits
Working as part of a wider onsite services IT team, the role provides opportunity for future progression and personal development for self-motivated employees looking to build their career in IT.
Your key responsibilities:
- To assist the service desk with the delivery of the IT managed support service.
- Provide school-based users with technical assistance and report service issues in accordance with the service desk policies.
- Participate in change management process and transition projects.
Our ideal candidate would demonstrate the following behaviours.
- Excellent Customer focused, problem solving and time management skills.
- Excellent communication both verbally and written.
- Punctual and able to prioritise own workload.
- Able to diagnose and troubleshoot issues, asking customers relevant questions to get the issue resolved and knowing when to research and when to escalate.
IT Skills (preferrable but not essential as training will be provided)
- Basic Operational knowledge of Microsoft 365 and/or Google Workspace
- ITIL Foundation and Comptia A+
- Use of IT service desk ticketing system g. ServiceNow
What’s in it for you?
As well as a competitive salary, you could earn a performance related bonus and you would receive our core benefits package which includes private medical healthcare, life assurance and a Group Personal Pension Plan with higher contribution levels available.
There are lots of voluntary benefits too. You could buy additional annual leave, join our dental plan, sign for a health assessment or take part in our cycle to work scheme. You could even earn yourself an extra bonus for successfully recommending a friend or family member for a position within RM.
At RM we are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve, and to creating an inclusive and flexible workplace where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit.
RM is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all permanent and temporary staff to share this commitment. This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and all successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks along with other relevant employment checks.
At RM we recently introduced My Work Blend @RM which provides office based colleagues with multi location and hybrid working. As well as your office base you can spend a proportion of your time working at other locations that suit your role and your life, including home, other offices, customer sites, distribution centres or on the move. We encourage you to discuss arrangements for this role with your potential line manager during the recruitment process. We expect how we make best use of hybrid working may continue to adapt as we adjust to our new ways of working.
RM Education Limited
https://www.rm.com
Abingdon, United Kingdom
Mark Cook
$500 million to $1 billion (USD)
1001 to 5000 Employees
Company - Public
Information Technology Support Services
1973