Onsite Technician Term Time
Job Summary
This role is responsible for delivering high-quality ICT support and technical expertise to schools and academies ensuring services are delivered in line with agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs). You will act as a trusted technical advisor helping customers maximise the value of their technology investments while maintaining secure reliable and effective ICT environments.
The successful candidate will work closely with school leaders teaching staff business managers students and internal teams to provide both proactive and reactive support across a range of technologies.
Job title:
Onsite Technician - Term TimeJob Description:
We are looking for a motivated and customer-focused ICT Support Technician to join our technician team supporting the Stafford region.
This role is responsible for delivering high-quality ICT support and technical expertise to schools and academies ensuring services are delivered in line with agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs). You will act as a trusted technical advisor helping customers maximise the value of their technology investments while maintaining secure reliable and effective ICT environments.
The successful candidate will work closely with school leaders teaching staff business managers students and internal teams to provide both proactive and reactive support across a range of technologies.
Responsibilities
- Deliver high-quality ICT support to schools and academies in line with ProXtra SLA commitments.
- Provide technical advice guidance and solutions within educational environments across Staffordshire and other geographical areas as required.
- Conduct onsite visits to provide support to our customers face to face.
- Manage incidents service requests changes and technical issues through to resolution meeting agreed response and resolution targets.
- Maintain regular communication with customers providing timely updates and clear expectations throughout the support process.
- Support maintain and troubleshoot customer ICT equipment including servers workstations networking equipment wireless systems and cloud services.
- Assist schools with ICT Audits planning and refresh programmes.
- Support customer environments to align with DFE Guidelines
- Produce and maintain accurate technical documentation for schools and site records.
- Work collaboratively with internal support teams to ensure smooth delivery and transition of services.
About You
- Proven experience in a customer-facing ICT support systems engineer or technical consultant role.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across a broad range of ICT technologies.
- Experience supporting Microsoft 365 environments including Exchange Online SharePoint Teams and Entra ID.
- Experience supporting and maintaining Windows Serverand 2022 environments.
- Good knowledge of Active Directory Group Policy PowerShell and automation tools.
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Windows desktop operating systems and Microsoft Office applications.
- Experience supporting virtual server environments including Microsoft Hyper-V and/or VMware.
- Experience supporting backup solutions
- Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel to customer sites.
- The successful applicant will require security clearance (i.e. DBS checked).
About Entrust
Entrust is a joint venture between Capita and Staffordshire County Council. We work across the UK in partnership with schools academies and local authorities to provide specialist expertise around school improvement learning technologies and property and support services. We currently work in over 50 local authorities with 600 schools. Join us and youll be part of the fastest growing school-to-school support partner in England.
Whats in it for you
- A competitive basic salary (25155 pro rata to reflect term time hours)
- Work from home
- 23 days holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave
- The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
- Auto-enrolment to our company pension life assurance a cycle2work scheme 15 weeks fully paid maternity adoption and shared parental leave paternity pay of two weeksand plenty more
- Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle from discounts on retail and socialising to health & wellbeing travel and technology
- Access to our Employee Network Groups which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open inclusive platform
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Equal Opportunities
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Location:
StaffordUnited KingdomTime Type:
Full timeContract Type:
PermanentRequired Experience:
IC
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