Helpdesk Technician - AVALA Hospital - RH495

Kaizen Lab Inc.; Covington (LA); Hybrid; USD 38,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaizen Lab Inc. is seeking a Help Desk professional to be the first point of contact for customers, handling phone and email inquiries, performing remote diagnostics, and guiding users to effective solutions.

The role requires diagnosing issues and documenting interactions to ensure timely resolutions. The ideal candidate has 1+ year experience in a help desk environment, strong English communication, and the ability to work varied shifts with occasional overtime.

Qualifications

• Associates Degree in Computer Science or related field preferred.
• 1+ years of experience working in a help desk environment preferred
• Flexibility to work a variety of shifts with minimal notice
• Available to work regular overtime
• Proficiency with Windows and MAC OS
• Excellent oral communication skills
• Ability to organize and manage assigned Help desk tickets
• Skill to diagnose and resolve computer and printer issues
• Reliable transportation to handle issues at remote locations within 30 miles of hospital

Responsibilities

• Manage Help Desk tickets in a timely manner.
• Respond to customer issues via phone, email and IM
• Provide customer assistance
• Document customer interactions
• Run diagnostics to resolve customer reported issues
• Escalate issues to the next Tier, as appropriate
• Install, maintain, and repair computer hardware and software
• Follow-up with customers to ensure issues are resolved

Skills

Communication skills

English proficiency

Basic computer knowledge

Education

Associates Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Windows

Mac OS

Job description

Summary

Serves as the first point of contact for customers seeking technical assistance via phone or e-mail. Performs remote troubleshooting through diagnostic techniques and pertinent questions. Determines the best solution based on the issue and details provided by the customer.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage Help Desk tickets in a timely manner.
• Respond to customer issues via phone, email and IM
• Provide customer assistance
• Document customer interactions
• Run diagnostics to resolve customer reported issues
• Escalate issues to the next Tier, as appropriate
• Install, maintain, and repair computer hardware and software
• Follow-up with customers to ensure issues are resolved

Qualifications

• Associates Degree in Computer Science or related field preferred.
• 1+ years of experience working in a help desk environment preferred
• Flexibility to work a variety of shifts with minimal notice
• Available to work regular overtime
• Proficiency with Windows and MAC OS
• Excellent oral communication skills
• Ability to organize and manage assigned Help desk tickets
• Skill to diagnose and resolve computer and printer issues
• Reliable transportation to handle issues at remote locations within 30 miles of hospital

Core Competencies

Action Orientation - Targets and achieves results, overcomes obstacles, accepts responsibility, establishes standards and responsibilities, creates a results-oriented environment, and follows through on actions.

Communications - Communicates well both verbally and in writing. Effectively conveys and shares information and ideas with others. Listens carefully and understands various viewpoints. Presents ideas clearly and concisely and understands relevant detail in presented information.

Creativity/Innovation - Generates novel ideas and develops or improves existing and new systems that challenge the status quo, takes risks, and encourages innovation.

Critical Judgment - Possesses the ability to define issues and focus on achieving workable solutions. Consistently does the right thing by performing with reliability.

Customer Orientated - Listens to customers, builds customer confidence, increases customer satisfaction, ensures commitments are met, sets appropriate customer expectations, and responds to customer needs.

Interpersonal Skills - Effectively and productively engages with others and establishes trust, credibility, and confidence with others.

Leadership - Motivates, empowers, inspires, collaborates with, and encourages others. Builds consensus when appropriate. Focuses team members on common goals.

Teamwork - Knows when and how to attract, develop, reward, and utilize teams to optimize results. Acts to build trust, inspire enthusiasm, encourage others, and help resolve conflicts and develop consensus in creating high-performance teams.

Professional Requirements

• Adhere to dress code, appearance is neat and clean.
• Maintain patient confidentiality at all times.
• Report to work on time and as schedule.
• Wear identification while on duty.
• Maintain regulatory requirement, including all state, federal and local regulations.
• Represent the organization in a positive and professional manner at all times.
• Comply with all organizational policies and standards regarding ethical business practices.
• Attend regular staff meetings.
• Adhere to pre-determined professional development plan

Skills

• Ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.
• Basic computer knowledge.
• Basic printer knowledge.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires repetitive motions, standing, walking, bending,