Junior Customer Support Technician

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Role: Junior Customer Support Technician
Located: Slough
Package: £23,000 basic salary, plus bonus and large company benefits

(Ricoh operate a vibrant working policy giving you flexible hybrid working options)

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.

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What you will be doing...

This is an entry level role and all training will be provided.

The primary purpose of the role is to provide day-to-day support for PC software and hardware, including installations, moves and changes. To gain experience with on the job training working alongside experienced Customer Support Technicians on our clients sites.

The Job aims to train and provide the junior technician with the skills and experiences required to be a Customer Support Technician whilst at the same time working in the role.

This will lead to the following knowledge and experience.

Technical

• Proven experience of the build and configuration of standard desktop / laptop technology
• Experience of providing software support and installation services across a range of industry standard applications and operating systems
• Experience of providing hardware break fix services across standard desktop / laptop environments
• Experience of providing network support services across standard network environments

General

• Organised, priority driven, and able to multitask to meet service priorities
• Methodical with attention to detail, but prepared to meet customer expectations
• Communicate effectively with strong customer focus
• Experience of working in a client facing environment

You will ideally have...

This is an entry level role and all training will be provided.

• Great customer service
• Knowledge of basic IT, building and imaging laptops, basic troubleshooting
• Good verbal and written skills to effectively communicate with customers in a non-technical manner
• Organisational skills
• Good timekeeping

We receive a high volume of applications for our roles, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible

In return for your commitment, you can expect...

We’re looking for individuals with values and causes, strengths and weaknesses, passions and ideas. Bring your unique energy, and we’ll match it with opportunities to create the future.

In return for your commitment, we can offer you:

• Flexible and hybrid working in line with role requirements
• An inclusive workplace
• Excellent package with solid basic, strong bonus and company benefits including:
  • A competitive holiday entitlement, two days special leave per annum for volunteering, additional holiday purchase scheme
  • Flexible retirement plan
  • Wellbeing schemes to support your physical, emotional and financial health including Employee Assistance Programme, financial protection, life cover and will writing, medical protection, gym, travel and retail discounts, and more.
  • Company car / car allowance (role-specific), cycle to work scheme
• Career development and life-long learning opportunities
• Opportunity to join a global company

Life at Ricoh:

Ricoh’s Core Values

Our values encourage us to constantly improve and contribute to the wellbeing of all stakeholders, including our customers, employees and society.

For our leaders, we deliver training and mentorship to ensure our managers can positively contribute to our company culture, with inclusive behaviours that are aligned to our values.

Be part of something bigger

Our approach to sustainability touches every part of our organisation: from manufacturing to distribution, business sites to recycling, and how we support our customers.

By working with Ricoh, you choose to work for a company that cares about its impact on the planet and takes steps to reduce it each year. We have a number of global sustainability accreditations. You can read more about our work toward the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals here.

We are an equal opportunities employer

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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