Analyst

We're looking for a Support Analyst to join our Transportation team based in Salford, Greater Manchester. In this role, you'll play a pivotal role for providing application support to our users ensuring smooth operations and excellent service. Within this role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy leave, a fantastic, matched pension scheme, a share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans and even more

Can you imagine a world without transportation links via land, sea or air? Nor can we! Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a difference. Supporting the movement of people, goods and equipment. 

Location: Salford, Greater Manchester – travel to the office required with some remote working available

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Support Analyst you'll take ownership of ticket and incident management, overseeing systems upgrades, ensuring effect housekeeping and maintenance and contributing to project delivery.

Your day to day will include:

• Managing user incidents & requests in a timely manner, ensuring swift resolution or further expert engagement 
• Working with 3rd party providers regarding system issues, performing system housekeeping routines & checks
• Validating and actioning requests for alterations to the system configuration, supporting system upgrade projects and regression testing, liaising with the business regarding any issues, findings or updates they may need to be made aware of
• Collaborating with the Business Systems Team delivering improvement projects, introducing new or enhanced software, configurations, or functionality aimed at reducing query volumes and increasing user efficiency
• Delivering remote solutions and coaching to the user base, helping in delivering the outputs from the Business Systems Team strategy.

What are we looking for?

This role of Support Analyst is great if you:

• Hold the ability to prioritise and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment, working to work to tight deadlines, a logical mind-set with the skill to adapt quickly
• Can demonstrate strong analytical and problem solving skills, are technically competent with good Microsoft Office skills 
• Have good interpersonal skills with ability to build effective working relationships with all levels

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

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