GNOC Service Desk Engineer at MainOne Cable Nigeria

MainOne Cable is a leading facilitator and preferred provider of innovative telecom services and network solutions such as Connectivity and Data Center Solutions to Telecom operators, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), other businesses and Government institutions across West Africa.

MainOne Cable's success is built on having talented and highly proficient people within their respective fields as the driving force behind our business. A job in MainOne is different from any other you have had. With joining MainOne you'll be challenged, inspired and proud as you become a part of something big.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: GNOC Service Desk Engineer

Location: MDXi, Lagos
Department: Technical
Job Type: Permanent

Responsibilities

• The GNOC Service Desk Engineer will be responsible for managing daily operations of the service desk, managing the service desk team, representing the team to other stakeholders, and helping to ensure that the service desk is constantly developing and improving.

Other responsibilities include:

• Reporting and tracking of all service desk related concerns
• Tracking the activities of the team and evaluating performance
• Training and supporting service desk representatives
• Ensure customer concerns are addressed in a timely and accurate manner on a daily basis
• Set specific customer service standards
• Contribute to improving customer support by actively responding to queries and handling complaints
• Establish best practices through the entire technical support process
• Follow up with customers to identify areas of improvement
• Develop daily, weekly and monthly reports on help desk team’s productivity
• Provide customer feedback to the appropriate internal teams, like product developers

Qualifications, Skills & Competencies
Qualifications:

• BSc. Degree in Information Technology/Computer Science/Electrical & Electronics Engineering.
• ITIL certification will be an added advantage
• Minimum of 2 years’ work experience in a Telecommunication or ISP environment with knowledge on customer management.

Competencies:

• Good understanding and use of trouble ticketing applications, data reporting tools, ability to interpret trouble ticketing data and effectively present analysis with zero tolerance error. 
• Knowledge of incident, problem and change management framework (ITIL) and ISO 9001 management systems.
• Proficient in the use of MS application (Excel, Word and PowerPoint)
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong Interpersonal Skills and ability to convey information accurately.
• Capable of multi-tasking, time management and prioritisation of workload.
• Ability to assess and prioritise faults and respond or escalate accordingly.
• Willing to learn and develop new skills and actively seeks out tasks that help develop skills and knowledge.
• Actively encourage strong working relationships with other teams.
• Customer-service oriented with a problem-solving attitude

Demands of the Job:

• Ability and willingness to work round the clock when required, and meet tight deadlines.
• Ability to work shift rounds if necessary
• Ability to multitask effectively and adapt to a fast-paced working environment
• Proven work experience as a Service desk engineer
• Hands-on experience with help desk and remote control software
• Customer-service-oriented with a problem-solving attitude
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Team management skills

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.