QA Apprenticeships
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 Bristol, Bristol
                                            
                    IT Support Apprentice
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                                        Job Type: Full-time | 
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                                        Contract Type: Permanent | 
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                                        Salary: £14,000.00 - £18,000.00 Year | 
Overview
                                Employer description: This organisations deliver advanced customer experience technology and direction to ensure our customers deliver high-value, personalised experiences across human and digital touch-points. Interactions over the phone, web, mobile, e-commerce and within the back-office are managed seamlessly, streamlining efficiency whilst optimising customer experience. Job Overview: The IT Support Apprentice will be working in a team of support engineers for an award-winning solution innovator with a heavy focus on digital, mobile, social and omni-channel contact centre solutions. This would be an ideal role for someone who is looking to complete an apprenticeship and wants to progress in a fast-paced technical support environment. You will be providing first line support to internal and external customers. This is an excellent opportunity to get your hands dirty and learn some real IT skills, as well as gain exposure to a variety of technologies and software. Main Responsibilities:  Providing 1st line support to company users by responding to incidents logged by phone, email and self-service  Monitoring of alarms and notifying the relevance personnel accordingly  Undertake daily system maintenance tests of all IT systems to confirm system health, ensuring any test failures are appropriately logged, and escalated, in line with documented procedures  Building and configuring a range of laptops, PC`s and Mac's in adherence with our build procedures  Maintaining office IT facilities  IT Cabling, store inventory and asset management  Involved in configuration, installation and setup of systems at customer sites  Participating in team meetings  Adhoc support tasks  Provide 1st Line Service Desk activities as directed to ensure achievement of team and personal objects and service level agreements  Logging of incidents, service requests, changes and problem tickets in the Service Desk application  Working with 2nd and 3rd line team to ensure timely resolution in line with Service Level - Agreements (SLA)  Escalation of issues when required  Working with the customer and the team to try to resolve the issue on first point of contact Personal Qualities and Desirable Skills:  IT qualifications and/or IT enthusiast  Team player  Reliable, hardworking and be willing to learn  Strong communication skills  Able to thrive in a pressured environment as part of a team with the ability to priorities simple tasks  Highly self-motivated and the desire to improve and develop technical skills and clearly document processes and procedures  An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust; Good time keeping  Clear and concise verbal communication with the ability to communicate clearly in writing and over the telephone  Interpersonal skills  Organising and co-ordinating skills  Excellent customer service Desired Qualifications: Minimum 5 GCSE, grade C or above (or equivalent) in Maths and English Prospects and Progression:  Dress down culture  Regular company events  Exposure to new enterprise grade technology  Progression to a permanent job if required standard meet  Weekly football and Yoga  Work hard, play hard Benefits  20 days holiday  Pension  Approved overtime  Social events  Free parking  Salary boost at the end of their apprenticeship  Exposure to a variety of technology and career paths Important Information: QA’s apprenticeships are funded by the Education & Skills Funding Agency (ESFA), an executive agency of the Department for Education. To be eligible for a Government funded apprenticeship you must have lived in the UK or European Economic Area (EEA) for the last 3 consecutive years.