First Line Support

Midrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Job Description


Role responsibilities and key focus areas:

  • To undertake all Broadband Support related activities in support of the Broadband Products.
  • To undertake quality assurance (QA) and control checks during support activities to ensure broadband set-up, delivering a solution fit for purpose, consistent, and compliant with the business standards and guidelines.
  • Ensure customer solution modifications are fully regression tested and delivered within committed time to customer or within SLA.
  • To attend meetings with customer and business when required.
  • Monitor task execution and ensure results are recorded and feedback provided.
  • Prepare and maintain relevant documentation, including activity schedules, step by step procedure guide, narrative and written reports, and visual progress charts.
  • Liaise with and assist relevant broadband support teams with planning, provisioning and testing activities, problem resolution and root cause analysis.
  • Take responsibility for: time management; reporting and monitoring; risk management; issue management; QA and change management.
  • Support other team members and associated IT and business resources as appropriate and when required.
  • Continually update skills by learning new technologies and techniques relevant to the role.
  • Participate in continuous improvement.
  • Promote and advocate best practices within the team and throughout the business
  • Analyze daily broadband service request reports and ensure appropriate action is implemented to manage SR resolution according to SLA s
  • Manage Escalation and Urgent service requests and directed by the Technical Leads within the specified time
  • Identify and define new process improvement opportunities
  • Managing service requests (SR) from SRM to closure as per prescribed method
  • Troubleshooting and Accurately troubleshooting faults
  • Assigning SRs in correct method to 3rdline support
  • Feeding back to customer within committed timeline
  • Resolving SR within committed timeline
  • Feeding back root cause to all stakeholders that are interested in RCA
  • Writing root cause analyses reports
  • Demand and resource planning
  • Reviewing documentation
  • Quality assurance
  • Providing objective feedback to support teams and line management
  • Problem solving
  • Working on multiple projects at one time
  • Document analysis and communicating findings to technical and non-technical colleagues
  • Liaising with other support teams
  • Manage SR escalations and urgent requests
  • Analyze and understand daily Broadband service request reports for appropriate action
  • Ensure accurate completion of customer service requests and follow-up to ensure queries are resolved timeously, as per service level agreement
  • Provide effective, efficient and professional service to all our customers (internal and external), both telephonically and through written correspondence
  • Ensure customer service level agreements are met and exceeded
  • Consistent achievement of agreed productivity as per performance contract
  • Display a customer centric attitude
Technical Skills and experience:
  • Matric minimum requirement
  • National Diploma/Degree in a scientific/information technology discipline (beneficial)
  • CCNP certification
  • ITIL Foundations (beneficial)
  • At least three years customer service experience in a technical role (essential) and Broadband technologies
  • At least 3 years 2nd Line Support experience
  • SD-WAN experience (beneficial)
  • Practical and systematic approach to work beneficial
  • Telecommunications industry experience
  • Experience working with OSS/BSS software as end user or from working in the telecommunications sector.
  • MUST be willing to work 24/7 rotational shifts

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD1260315
  • Industry
    Not mentioned
  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Midrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Education
    Not mentioned