Senior Operations Technician 23104
Senior Operations Technician 23104
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Job Reference: 23104
Band: C
Salary:.00
Contract type: 12 Month FTC
Location: Office Base in London New Broadcasting House Shifts
Closing Date: 25th of April 2025
Were happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
Excellent career progression the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
Unrivalled training and development opportunities our inhouse Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
Benefits We offer a negotiable salary package a flexible 35hour working week for worklife balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days a defined pension scheme and discounted dental health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.
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Job Introduction
Our teams support studios and other production facilities digital production systems broadcast infrastructure as well as personal computing devices across the BBCs UK and international offices. We are also responsible for operational switching and monitoring live and prerecorded BBC output as well as a wide range of other production support services.
The role works as part of a shiftworking team providing 24 hour operational support incident management and stakeholder communication for a range of BBC platforms and services.
Interview process
- In office interview NBH approx. one hour of technical and competency/valuesbased questions
- Interviews to start on the 6th of May*this is subject to change
Main Responsibilities
The prime responsibility of the role is to provide 24/7 IT Support as a member of the Engineering Operations CAS Team within W1 and across other London offices. The department actively helps BBC programme makers create and deliver great content across radio TV and online.
Based in a dayside or a 24/7 shift which covers nights and weekends the team supports a range of BBC platforms including Windows MAC and MDM both on site and remotely for our International BBC Bureaux undertaking a mixture of: 1st line support calls typical 2nd line IT desk visits User Admin requests and also a customer facing Laptop Clinic. The role reports back to the Team Leader bringing their attention to any issues encountered during the course of the shift that requires escalation in order that they can assist in reaching a satisfactory resolution.
Work involves endtoend business support for systems and applications for the related Editorial/Production and Development teams ensuring duties are performed efficiently safely and to a consistently high standard.
Are you the right candidate
Essential
Strong experience of working with Microsoft Active Directory and SCCM administration
Strong experience of supporting Microsoft Windows Workstation Windows 7 and 10 Strong experience of troubleshooting software and hardware issues on Windows based desktops and laptops
Experience of Microsoft Office products including strong knowledge of Outlook configuration in an operations business environment
Knowledge of support centre call logging systems.
Flexibility to travel at times with limited notice to our International Bureaux as well as events in the UK and to work occasional extended hours to deliver the job goal.
Leads the response to service disruption and supports proactive measures to prevent recurrence.
Good communication skills; Able to explain information to technical and nontechnical audiences. This includes communications to large diverse audiences following incidents and acting as the point of contact for operational management.
Provides technical leadership on issues escalated by the operational team.
Contributes to efficiency and technical improvements of the operations team.
Desirable
Experience of working on broadcast systems in a live TV Radio or broadcast environment
Demonstrable ability to communicate clearly using a range of styles tools and techniques to explain technical issues to a wide range of people
Experience of providing a high quality service in a demanding environment
Experience of prioritising conflicting requirements often working under pressure in rapidly changing situations
About the BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
We dont focus simply on what we do we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure youve read about our values and behaviours here.
Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individuals unique contribution enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC whether thats to contribute to our programming or our wide range of nonproduction roles. The more diverse our workforce the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals regardless of age gender ethnicity disability sexual orientation gender identity socioeconomic background religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC please click here.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
