Information Technology Technician - Live Lead

 

IT Field Engineer – Manchester £24,000 - £30000 per annum

 

Computeam is a fast growing education technology provider, delivering managed IT services to over 500 school and Multi-academy Trust clients across the UK. With 35% YoY growth over the past two years we are recognised as a world class employer by Best Companies Index.

We are now looking for a IT Field Engineer to join our world class company. Candidates must have a good understanding of an experienced IT Field Engineer and be someone who is competent working with clients, customers and colleagues of all levels of seniority.

Computeam is passionate about our mission to improve education outcomes using technology and we’ve been voted one of the Top 25 Small Companies to work for in the UK in the Best Companies Index for 2023 as well as Top 10 in the Technology Sector. We’re therefore looking for a driven individual who is keen to make a difference to hundreds of schools across the UK.

 

What are the main duties for this role?

On and offsite trouble shooting for a regular portfolio of school clients of around 5-10 schools.Providing technical support in a deadline heavy environment (early morning trouble shooting essential).Trouble shoot a range of issues relating to networks, account management, hardware, printing, CCTV and school management systems.Collaboration with our brilliant team of Project Managers to share knowledge of school technical infrastructures and systems

What skills will you need to be successful in this role?

Be able to develop great working relationships with all members in the school settingBe able to talk in non-technical terms to fully support clients with their IT use and engagementHave around 3 years’ in role experience in IT support or consultancy services, ideally in the Education or Public SectorsWorking knowledge of firewalls, Windows AD, Azure AD, MS Intune device managementMS Office 365, Teams, SharePoint, OneDriveMS Server build knowledge and hands on experience, 2016 – 2019Working knowledge of LAN & or WAN technologiesBeneficial to have: VMWare, Hyper-V, Google Workspace for Education,Beneficial Qualifications: Networking – i.e. CompTIA, Microsoft, Cisco CCNA/CCNP

 

Joining Computeam

We have been recognised as a World Class Employee by Best Companies in 2023 and we have excellent engagement and wellbeing practices, which in turn drives an excellent service for our clients. We believe in rewarding our staff and sharing in Computeam’s success.

Our values:

Passion – truly engage with our aim and use that to provide the best service you can in your role

Purpose – make your actions purposeful and positive

People – collaborate with the team to support and develop on a peer to peer basis

Proud – demonstrate pride in the role you are doing and how this will impact better outcomes in education

 

Just some of our Company Benefits include:

Annual Profit Share scheme (after 12 months)

Employer Pension Contributions

Employee Assistance Plan

Laptop and Mobile Phone

Holiday entitlement starting at 22 days increasing with length of service

Additional Birthday leave

Holiday buy and Sell

Volunteer leave

Company Carbon footprint offset with Ecologi

Cycle to work scheme

Salary sacrifice EV car scheme

Company events & charity fundraising opportunities

Funded professional training and access to our inhouse training platform

 

Salary & Expenses: Computeam Pay Scale

Grade 3: IT Field Engineer – Desk & Field Based, 2nd Line

£24,000 - £30,000 per annum (full time)

Mileage expenses reimbursement (own car essential and full driving licence)

Laptop and phone

Work uniform polo shirt & fleece

 

What are the working arrangements?

Hours: 40 per week between 8am and 5.30pm

Days: Monday – Friday only

Where: Mostly on site at schools and some work from home

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £24,000.00-£30,000.00 per year

Benefits:

 

Additional leaveCompany eventsCompany pensionHealth & wellbeing programmeProfit sharingReferral programmeWork from home

 

Schedule:

 

Monday to Friday

 

Experience:

 

Technical Support Occupations: 3 years (required)

 

Licence/Certification:

 

UK Driving Licence (required)

 

Willingness to travel:

 

75% (required)

 

Work Location: In person