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Durham College (DC) is leading the way as a post-secondary institution, offering an innovative and transformative student experience and hands-on learning opportunities. With this focus top of mind for our students and our employees, DC is proud to be one of the fastest-growing colleges in the province and annually ranked as one of the GTA’s Top 100 employers.
The college offers a wide range of market-driven programs across multiple disciplines, including culinary management, farming and horticulture, business, IT, construction and trades, science and technology, health care, engineering, social and community services, justice, media, art and design.
With a focus on experiential learning, DC graduates are known for having the skills and knowledge employers need. More than 104,000 alumni represent the college, both locally and around the world.
Serving the Durham Region and Northumberland County communities for over 50 years, with campuses in Oshawa and Whitby, the college offers over 12,500 full-time post-secondary and apprenticeship students access to more than 145 full-time post-secondary programs – including four honours bachelor degrees and nine apprenticeship programs. Led by over 1,860 full- and part-time staff, DC has an estimated annual economic impact of more than $913 million on Durham Region.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The incumbent will be responsible for providing systems monitoring, 1st level services and support of laptops, PC’s, printers, peripherals, software as well as centric application support for College and University students, faculty and admin staff. Working closely with 2nd level support staff, key responsibilities will be incident resolution for issues related to student laptops, smartphones, academic workstations, computer lab workstations, managing requests and trouble tickets issues from the open state to the call closure process.
A key initiative is to ensure that service levels are met when responding to and resolving assigned calls, targeting 80% of all calls being resolved on the first contact with customer. This requires coordination and communication between clients, 2nd and 3rd level IT support, the asset manager, as well as 3rd party vendors if necessary.
1st Level Technical Support and Service
- Provide critical system monitoring and first line support for the Durham College and Ontario Tech University user community, providing thorough and concise technical support with immediate resolution where possible to clients.
- Provide escalation for all calls to their respective support analysts via call ticketing system and phone.
- Provide initial incident call logging and any necessary follow up with customers via telephone, email and/or walkup support ensuring quality of service.
- Provide immediate first line support on all College and University user-based applications and software including, Microsoft Office Suite, Exchange mail, MyDC, MYOntariotech, DC Connect and other student focused applications as implemented.
- Support mobile computing technology, particularly Wireless, smartphones, Windows and Apple/MAC laptops.
Trouble Ticket Management
- Required to log all service and problem requests in the call logging system with the appropriate technical analysis as per departmental procedures.
- Review trouble tickets and report on trends to 2nd or 3rd level or management teams.
General Service Desk duties
- Required to perform a range of general duties in the technical area as required from time to time, including administration of technical student information, asset tracking and logging etc.
- Adheres to and effectively communicate established process and procedures to clients when necessary.
- Required to work off hours when necessary to address issues, problems, or projects. May be required to be on call, work rotating shifts and work overtime when necessary.
- Required to document technical information, notes, user guides for internal or customer use if required.
- Provides continuing research and training on technologies and applications to maintain a skill level that matches the evolution of technologies related to perform these duties and keeping applications technically current.
- Attend IT related meetings to understand user needs and all departmental.
- Deliver cross training to other technical staff when required.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- A minimum of a 3-year diploma or degree is required in Information Technology or Business Administration.
- A+ Certification is required.
- ITIL v3 and MCP certification an asset.
- Minimum of four years related work experience in Information Technology and dealing with the public.
- A minimum of two years of work experience providing 1st level support in a network environment.
- Well-developed problem-solving skills in order to identify problems determine possible solutions and select the appropriate action.
- Able to cope under high pressure and constant changes in priorities.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and proven ability to work well with users.
- Strong critical thinking, analytical, organizational and decision-making skills.
- Familiarity with Banner, MyDC, MYOntariotech would be an asset.
Required Skills
Starting Rate: $33.38; Four Year Rate: $38.75
Required Experience
Hours: 35 hours per week (1) one hour lunch; Mon – Fri (shifts between 7:30am – 11:00pm). Weekends (shifts between 9:00am – 4:00pm). Shifts will be scheduled in accordance with these hours.
The job locations can vary between three campus locations: Oshawa North, Whitby Campus and 61 Charles ON Tech Downtown campus.
Please apply below by submitting your cover letter and resume to the online portal. Job Competition closes on November 28th, 2022. Competition number SS22-130.
