Described by our clients as ‘passionate’: ‘innovative’: ‘collaborative’: BuroHappold Engineering is an independent, international engineering practice that over the last 40 years has become synonymous for the delivery of creative, value led building and city solutions for an ever changing world. Having worked on every continent, our clients include more than 90% of the world’s leading architectural practices and we have collaborated with global organisations such as the United Nations, The World Bank and UNESCO. Through our global community of driven, world leading engineering professionals we deliver elegant solutions for buildings and cities that seek to address the major problems facing societies today. Follow us @burohappold and find out more at www.burohappold.com.
At the moment we are looking for talented candidates for the following role:
- Degree in IT and Microsoft Certified qualifications (MCSE, MCSA or MCP), ITIL V3 / COBIT would be an advantage.
- 3 - 5 years, involved in hands on day-to-day IT and also working knowledge of all levels of IT support.
- Fluency in English (work in the international environment).
- Confident, proactive character with very good communication skills.
- Ability to listen and understand / deal with challenging situations.
- Ability to forward think and effect continuous improvement.
- Strong interest in the continuing personal development and taking on more senior role.
- Proven experience of identifying opportunities for improvement and change in an organization reluctant to process and change.
- Ability to understand the needs of the business and engineers to enhance efficiency and be able to translate that back into IT speak.
- Proven experience of creating and monitoring SLAs with clients and ensuring key objectives are delivered.
Operational (circa 75% of working time)
- Day to day support with a sole responsibility for Warsaw office – direct responsibility for all IT Systems provided by head office and Service specifically: communications (switch board, Wi-Fi, Email, Video Conferencing, Desktop Collaboration Tools, Telephones), devices and applications (Standardized Desktop, Virus Protection, Engineering Systems), infrastructure (cabling floor boxes, LAN/WAN, Systems hosting, Logon (AD), Network Services, Remote Working, Storage, Backup, Print), Service Desk (IT Helpdesk, Local 2nd Line Support, 3rd Line System/Application Support), IT hardware purchase & preparation for use.
- Make and implement IT solutions to increase effectiveness and efficiency of project delivery.
- Support engineers to understand their processes and working practices.
- Ensure Buro Happold staff / senior staff are kept informed of relevant IT matters.
- Provide global support as part of the wider IT team.
Strategic (circa 25% of working time)
- Manage elements of budgets relating to providing the service.
- Improve the service to the local office (within a global improvement framework).
- Gather insight and feedback to the centrally based IT teams to improve the working efficiency of our end customer engineers.
