Trainee Service Desk Assistant - Contract

About the Role

As a member of the LMUK Service Desk team you will work to resolve support calls at the first point of contact. You will utilise a wealth of Knowledge Base articles and work closely with your team to resolve support tickets you would otherwise escalate. This approach increases your exposure to different technologies and increases your ability to progress your technical knowledge.

As a Support Analyst at Lockheed Martin you will work within our Best Practices to provide the Lockheed Martin Experience, this includes resolving support calls within Service Level Agreements whilst receiving consistently good feedback through Quality Control and our Customer Satisfaction Survey.

• To provide Service Desk support to clients via telephone and chat
• Logging and updating support tickets within the Company's Incident Management Application
• Resolving support calls in a quick and efficient manner whilst meeting SLA's
• To escalate calls where necessary to the Desktop Team and/or Infrastructure Team
• To complete company provided training to ensure you have what you need to fulfil your role
• To keep up to date with the latest technologies utilised by the Company
• To demonstrate a genuine desire to continually improve your technical knowledge and ability

At Lockheed Martin we operate a 4 day working week this means we work 9.5 hours a day, on the Service Desk these hours are completed in shifts between the hours of 06:00 - 20:00

Required skills, qualifications and experience

• Exceptional verbal communication skills
• Excellent people skills and the ability to build relationships with customers
• Strong problem solving abilities and the desire to create positive customer experiences
• MS Office Products
• Windows 10
• iPhones

What we offer you

At Lockheed Martin our employees come first and therefore your physical, mental and financial wellbeing matters to us. On top of working in a highly supportive, friendly, respectful environment you can expect so much more.

We are an employer in support of and offering Flexible working with the option to also work a 4 day week depending on business requirements, where you have the option of Fridays off. We offer Competitive salaries alongside a flexible holiday entitlement.

We have a Wealth of benefits available to you that can be selected through our wellbeing tool upon commencement of employment.

Just a few of our amazing benefits are shown below:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Competitive Pension
• Dental
• Critical Illness
• Life Assurance
• Travel Insurance
• Employee discounts for top high street shops
• Employee Assistance Program which includes free face to face counselling sessions, Legal advice, Financial advice, etc
• Internal training and development alongside out Education assistance programmes
• Reimbursement for a professional membership
• Competitive policies that support flexibility and family leave inclusive of enhanced maternity leave

Business Environment

Enterprise Business Services (EBS) consists of LMUK IT Services, Payroll, ESH, HR and Finance functions. With employees located throughout the UK, EBS provides UK wide support to the LMUK business areas.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Lockheed Martin recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief. Discrimination on any of these grounds is expressly forbidden. We therefore welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by Optamor Limited. Optamor is a specialist Recruitment Process Outsourcing provider. We provide a flexible full recruitment solution which takes care of all recruitment requirements from planning to on-boarding. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission.