Support Engineer - Kettering

RM Education; Desborough; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical healthcare

Life assurance

Group Personal Pension Plan

Additional annual leave

Dental plan

Health assessment

Cycle to work scheme

Employee referral bonus

Job summary

RM Education is seeking an IT Support Engineer to join our onsite team in a school setting. You will deliver technical and customer support for desktop, mobile devices, and classroom tech, following ITIL practices and collaborating with the service desk.

You will troubleshoot issues, liaise with remote teams, and contribute to safeguarding while ensuring excellent service delivery within an educational environment.

Qualifications

• Excellent customer focus and problem solving.
• Clear and effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Punctual, with ability to prioritise own workload.
• Able to diagnose and troubleshoot IT issues, knowing when to seek more information.
• Able to collaborate with remote teams and build strong working relationships.

Responsibilities

• Be the customer face of RM, ensuring customers receive great service.
• Assist the service desk with delivery of the IT managed support service.
• Provide school-based users with technical assistance and report service issues per service desk policies.
• Understand safeguarding importance in education and share responsibility with staff.
• Based onsite in a school, provide technical and customer support.

Skills

Desktop & Mobile support

Printing & A/V support

Networking basics

Image deployment

Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace

ITIL & ServiceNow

Customer service

Tools

ServiceNow

ITIL

Job description

Overview

Would you like to help enrich the lives of learners around the world?

At RM, we’ve been pioneers of education technology since 1973. We provide technology and resources to the education sector, supporting over 20 million students and improving educational outcomes worldwide.

What we do helps learners at all stages of their lives, from preschool to higher education and professional qualification; we partner with schools, examination boards, governments, and professional organisations globally to make learning more accessible, more engaging, and more impactful.

RM operates through three divisions: Assessment (digital assessment and marking solutions), Technology (managed services, hardware, and software for schools), and TTS (educational resources).

RM Technology is a market-leading supplier of ICT products and services to UK schools and colleges to deliver a technology environment that improves learning outcomes and makes the most of IT investment, driving focus through four lines of business: Managed Services, Software, Hardware and Broadband

Visit us here to find out more: www.rm.com/education

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

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.

Based onsite in a school, you will be providing technical and customer support.

Your key responsibilities:

• To be the customer face of RM, ensuring our customers receive great service.


• 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 theservice desk policies.

Have an understanding of the importance of safeguarding in education and take responsibility for safeguarding alongside other members of staff.

Experience

Our ideal candidate would demonstrate the following behaviours.

• Excellent Customer focus, 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 escape.


• Able to work well with remote teams and build strong working relationships.

Skills

• Maintenance and support of Desktop & Mobile Devices including Laptops, Chromebooks and Tablets.


• Peripheral Support inc. Printing, Scanning, Interactive Screens, Projectors and Audio/Visual Equipment.


• Basic wired and wireless networking and troubleshooting


• Image build and deploy tools - Microsoft and Apple devices


• Basic Operational knowledge of Microsoft 365 and/or Google Workspace


• Technical knowledge and experience equivalent to CompTIAA+or similar.


• A working knowledge of ITIL methodology and use of IT service desk ticketing systeme.g.ServiceNow would be an advantage.

What's in it for you?

A competitive salary and 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.

• private medical healthcare


• life assurance


• a Group Personal Pension Plan with higher contribution levels available


• you could buy additional annual leave


• join our dental plan


• sign up for a health assessment


• 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

RMis 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.

To better reflect the society that we serve, we’re committed to building a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive and welcoming environment for all. To achieve this, we create teams of talented people from different backgrounds and experiences and strive to be a business where our people can bring their whole selves to work, we also want to make the recruitment process as inclusive as possible for everyone. Should you require additional support with your application or through the interview process, please contact us at [e-mail].

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.