General Dynamics

Help Desk Specialist - PART TIME - April Start Date!

Posted on: 31 Jan 2021

Barbourville, KY

Job Description

General Dynamics Information Technology is seeking highly motivated individuals to join our rapidly growing team of part-time Technical Help Desk Specialist in the Barbourville, KY area.

Employees in this role will manage inbound calls in a fast paced, high energy environment to support a large federal government contract (VA ESDMS) and will be assisting customers by researching technical issues, exploring answers, and providing information and alternative solutions. If you enjoy computer science and are motivated to help others, you will find this role to be both challenging and rewarding.

A Day In the Life

As a Technical Help Desk Specialist at GDIT, you will have the opportunity to learn and grow in your IT career as you:
* Respond to incoming service calls and/or to self-service ticketing queues on behalf of our client to provide accurate and appropriate information

* Identify, evaluate, and prioritize end-user issues to ensure that inquiries are successfully resolved

* Utilize troubleshooting techniques to resolve hardware, software, and network issues

* Document incident status and solutions in incident database tools

* Diagnose, identify, isolate, and analyze problems utilizing historical database records

* Adhere to established levels of service

* Adhere to established customer service and documentation standards within required time frames

* Adhere to contact center part-time schedule during hours of operation which covers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

* Perform clerical and/or administrative duties as assigned

SHIFTS/SCHEDULES

Target start date will be in April, but is subject to change
* We are hiring part-time employees to work a minimum of 10 hours with the possibility of up to 29 hours per week (no weekends!)

* Scheduled days must include Mondays and Tuesdays with s hifts s tarting between 7am-9am EST

* If Monday is a holiday, required scheduled days will be Tuesday and Wednesday

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
* High school diploma or G.E.D.

* One or more years of related customer service and/or help desk experience

* Access to 10 Mbps of downloadspeedand 1 Mbps of uploadspeedof dedicatedinternetbandwidth

* Ability to pass a background check and drug test

* Must be able to work Monday & Tuesdays (or Tuesdays and Wednesdays if Monday is a holiday)

* 100% attendance is required during training

* Ability to work remotely and in a quiet area during COVID and willingness to return to the office when the contract requires and/or COVID subsides

* Kentucky residency within a 60 mile radius of our Barbourville facility

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
* Excellent customer service

* AA/AS or equivalent in a related field of study

* Previous experience troubleshooting software and hardware issues (Windows and MAC O/S, internet systems, and networking)

* Previous experience working with a contact center management database

* Previous experience working with a ticketing system

GDITPRIORITY

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
20

Travel Required:
None

T elecommuting Options:
Telecommuting Not Allowed

Work Location:
USA KY Barbourville

Additional Work Locations:

We are GDIT. The people supporting some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects across the country. We deliver. Bringing the expertise needed to understand and advance critical missions. We transform. Shifting the ways clients invest in, integrate, and innovate technology solutions. We ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. We are there. On the ground, beside our clients, in the lab, and everywhere in between. Offering the technology transformations, strategy, and mission services needed to get the job done. nnGDIT is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.

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General Dynamics

Falls Church, VA

General Dynamics Corporation operates as an aerospace and defense company worldwide. It operates in five segments: Aerospace, Combat Systems, Information Technology, Mission Systems, and Marine Systems. The Aerospace segment designs, manufactures, and supports business-jet aircraft; and offers business-aviation services, including maintenance, fixed-base operation, government fleet, aircraft management, charter, and staffing services, as well as integrated aviation solutions.

The Combat Systems segment engages in the design, development, production, modernization, and sustainment of combat vehicles, weapons systems, and munitions. This segment offers wheeled combat and tactical vehicles; main battle tanks and tracked combat vehicles; weapons systems, armaments, and munitions; and maintenance, logistics support, and sustainment services. The Information Technology segment provides information technology (IT), IT infrastructure modernization, and professional services, as well as cloud, cyber, software development, systems engineering, and data analytics services and solutions.

The Mission Systems segment offers mission-critical C4ISR products and systems, such as space, intelligence, and cyber systems; ground systems and products; and naval, air, and electronic systems. The Marine Systems segment designs and builds nuclear-powered submarines, surface combatants, and auxiliary and combat-logistics ships for the United States Navy and Jones Act ships for commercial customers.

This segment provides nuclear-powered submarines; surface combatants; auxiliary and combat-logistics ships; commercial product carriers and containerships; design and engineering support services; and maintenance, modernization, and lifecycle support services, as well as repair services for navy ships. The company was incorporated in 1952 and is headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia.