At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage helpdesk operations, schedule maintenance, and coordinate with engineers and clients.
- Company: Established company providing essential services across various sectors.
- Benefits: 25 days holiday, competitive salary, and a supportive work environment.
- Other info: Fast-paced role with opportunities to learn and grow in the building services industry.
- Why this job: Be the vital link in keeping buildings running smoothly and efficiently.
- Qualifications: Strong communication skills and a knack for organisation; experience is a plus but not essential.
The predicted salary is between 22950 - 28050 £ per year.
An excellent opportunity for an experienced Helpdesk Coordinator to join a well-established company based in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire.
About The Company:
The company provides mechanical, electrical, fabric and management services to buildings across the public, residential, commercial and private sectors. Based in Kings Langley and work across London and the South East.
The work splits two ways. Planned maintenance is the scheduled side: servicing plant on a cycle so that it does not fail. Reactive is everything else, and it is where the helpdesk lives. Something breaks in a building somebody is standing in, and it needs an engineer today. Some clients they look after directly, others come through managing agents acting for the building owner. Either way the buildings are occupied and in use, so a call at nine is expected to have an answer by ten.
What you would be doing:
- Answering the helpdesk phone and the shared mailbox, and being the first voice a client hears
- Raising jobs and keeping them up to date in Simpro, our job management system
- Booking emergency and reactive call-outs, and scheduling planned maintenance visits
- Allocating engineers to the day's work and moving things around when a job over-runs
- Chasing job cards and reports back from engineers, and sending them out to clients
- Turning what an engineer found on site into a clear quotation for the client
- Raising purchase orders, ordering parts and materials, and chasing suppliers for delivery dates
- Booking site access and permits with managing agents and building managers
- Keeping site records, certificates and compliance paperwork straight
What a typical day looks like:
- All day - The phone and the inbox. Both run from the moment you sit down, and answering them well is most of the job
- From 8:00 - Reading the reports that came back from yesterday's visits and chasing the ones that did not. Catching up on the overnight inbox and working out what changed while the office was shut.
- Morning - Reactive calls come in. A boiler is down, a unit is leaking, a shop has no heating. You work out how urgent each one is, book an engineer to it, and tell the client when somebody will be there.
- Midday - More reports land as engineers finish on site. You chase parts, raise purchase orders, and turn what an engineer found into a quotation that goes out to the client the same day.
- Afternoon - Certificates and reports go out and managing agents get their updates. Tomorrow gets built: every engineer is given their jobs and their first appointment before they finish, so nobody starts the day waiting to be told.
- 5:00pm - You go home. Out of hours is covered by a 24 hour monitoring bureau, so the phone is not yours in the evening.
Candidate Requirements:
- Experience in building services, facilities management or a trade office is useful, and we will take somebody without it who is organised, unflappable on the phone and quick to learn.
- Comfortable talking to clients, engineers and managing agents, sometimes when they are frustrated
- Organised enough to hold a lot of open jobs at once and let none of them go quiet
- Clear, confident written English. A great deal of this job is email
- Accurate with detail. Job numbers, purchase order numbers and site addresses have to be right
- Confident with Microsoft Outlook and Excel. We will teach you Simpro
- Within a sensible commute of Kings Langley, since the role is fully office based
Key Skills:
- Communication- On the phone and in writing, all day
- Organisation- Many open jobs, none of them forgotten
- Attention to detail- Job numbers, PO numbers, addresses
- Prioritising- Knowing what is urgent and what can wait
- Customer service- Usually when something has gone wrong
- Problem solving- Finding the engineer, the part, the access
- Staying calm- Busy mornings and awkward calls
- Confidence- Speaking up to clients, engineers and suppliers
- Reliability- In on time, and nothing slips through
- Teamwork- Engineers, the office and suppliers
- Industry awareness- Some feel for construction and building services
- IT confidence- Outlook, Excel, and Simpro once we teach you
Benefits: 25 days holiday entitlement +
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