IT Support Technician Apprentice

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Role: IT Support Technician Apprentice
Located: Northampton - Office Based
Contract Type: 24 Months Fixed Term Contract
Package: Competitive salary plus bonus, pay progression plan and excellent company benefits

About Ricoh:

Ricoh is a global technology business. As a company born in print, we design and manufacture graphic solutions that transform communications. To keep up with the pace of change in the workplace, we have built an extensive portfolio of innovative, industry-leading digital services spanning everything from Cloud & IT infrastructure solutions to process automation tools.

Everything we do is designed to help individuals achieve fulfilment through work. Through technology, we make work smarter and more creative, enabling people to lead purposeful working lives and organisations to become more productive, sustainable and profitable.

What you will be doing:

• Providing outstanding customer service to both external and internal customers through responding appropriately.
• Working as part of the Remote Assist Team providing remote technical assistance and resolutions to external customers achieving targets set by the Remote Assist Team Leader.
• Using Remote Assist Tools including but not limited to (i) Device Operating System Emulation Tool (ii) Device Remote Access Tools (iii) Relevant knowledge bases.
• Articulating technical resolutions to customers to avoid a field visit.
• Developing technical resolution & communication skills through self and company led training.
• Constantly innovating ways to remotely resolve customer incidents.
• Promoting Company initiatives as requested to enhance customer satisfaction and Company performance.
• Maintaining database integrity by ensuring verification of customer information and file maintenance.
• Adhering to company policies and procedures, whether organisational or tasks related.

You will ideally have:

• Good telephone manner.
• Good customer handling skills desirable.
• Written communication skills to enable effective communication with internal and external contacts.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Negotiation skills.
• Good level of IT literacy.
• Ability to work under pressure.

We are an equal opportunities employer.

We are open to discussing adjustments to the recruitment process if needed. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non-membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.

Striving for inclusion and diversity isn’t just the right thing to do. Diverse approaches, perspectives and experiences make us more innovative, lead to better decisions and help us better understand the needs of our customers.

To empower you to bring your full identity to work, we have employee-led affinity groups in LGBTQ+, gender and ethnicity that allow members to explore issues and challenges surrounding shared identities, experiences and beliefs.

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