Technical Support Engineer

Kion Group; Stockport; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global logistics and automation company is seeking a candidate to maintain communication with clients and provide technical support for bespoke applications. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional communication skills and have a strong software background. Responsibilities include monitoring critical systems and making vital decisions to mitigate service disruptions, with flexible working hours including nights and weekends.

Benefits

Career development programs

Competitive compensation and benefits

Global opportunities for assignments

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering or computing background is beneficial.
• Familiarity with incident management and reporting tools required.
• Flexibility to travel to customer sites for understanding operations.

Responsibilities

• Maintain excellent communication with customers and stakeholders.
• Provide technical support for applications via phone and email.
• Proactively monitor large scale business-critical systems.
• Make application-sensitive decisions to avoid service disruptions.

Skills

Exceptional verbal and written communication skills

Excellent listening skills

Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment

Logical thinking in an engineering context

Personable team player skills

Job description

Overview

The Response Coordination Centre (RCC) is the central support function within Dematic Software for ensuring that all customers receive a high quality and premium service when they require assistance with Dematic’s portfolio of logistics and automation systems. The role of the RCC team is to provide technical support to effectively coordinate and resolve all customers’ reported incidents within stringent SLA timescales as well as provision of support to internal Dematic business functions.

We offer:

Career Development

We are here to support you for the entirety of your Dematic career. From a fast start of learning Dematic’s history and foundational training to succeed in your role to leadership development programs, technical training and certifications, and Career Navigator to identify challenging new opportunities, our goal is to help you grow beyond your borders.

Competitive Compensation and Benefits

Our attractive and market competitive total rewards packages are designed to reward high performance and to assist in managing your personal and family needs. Dematic offers robust packages based on employment status and national requirements.

Pay Transparency

Dematic is committed to pay transparency. As such, the Dematic will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

However, Dematic will still maintain confidentiality of your pay information. Employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by Dematic, or (c) consistent with Dematic’s legal duty to furnish information.

Global Opportunities

As a global company, our employees are exposed to different ideas and perspectives from around the world. We offer international assignments for qualified employees and wherever possible, we offer flexible working hours and modern workspace design.

Learn More Here: https://www.dematic.com/en-us/about/careers/what-we-offer/

Job Specification

• Maintaining excellent communication with customers, stakeholders and internally within Dematic whilst also focusing on following internal procedures
• Providing support for bespoke applications via telephone and email
• Being able to make application-sensitive decisions to mitigate potential disruption to service and filtering automated system alerts
• Proactively monitoring large scale business-critical systems
• All technical tasks are carried out with accuracy after an assessment of risks when performing actions on live customer applications
• An inquisitive mind with some flexibility to travel to customer sites will aid understanding customers’ operations and aid in enhancing technical skills and knowledge of Dematic’s industry
• Familiarity with the use of incident management and reporting tools with a demonstrable ability of working in a customer facing role would be a prerequisite
• A flexible approach to working shifts including nights and weekends is also a fundamental requirement of the role and growing with the company

Essential Skills

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent listening skills are also essential when trying to comprehend customers’ reported incidents then translate them into technical and functional terms, as necessary
• Being able to multi-task within a fast-paced and highly structured environment
• The ability to apply logical thinking in an engineering capacity; coming from a strong software engineering or computing background is beneficial
• Other personable skills are also essential to the RCC roles such as being a team player as well as keeping sight of the overall team goals as this will prove invaluable to personal development and progressing technically