Global Technical Support Engineer

**Primary role purpose**:
As a Global Technical Support Consultant, you’re not new to communications and networking; you’ve grown your knowledge both academically and practically across a range of communications and technology. What makes you different is the passion and self-drive you demonstrate in taking a customer’s issues and owning it through to completion, exceeding all expectations along the way. Your dedication and loyalty is absolute and your life’s desire is to embroil yourself in a career where the challenges are greater than ever before - but the rewards are exponentially greater still. You love to problem solve and feel challenged and your greatest passion is to embed yourself with the most innovative and thriving technologies that don’t just exist today - but tomorrow. You want to make a difference to real people and with Inmarsat, the UK’s pioneering Satellite Technology Company, you can.

As a Global Technical Support Consultant, you’ll be monitoring and maintaining the terminals, firmware and networks Inmarsat’s Partners and end customers and sometimes as part of a Managed Service offering. If there are any issues relating to ‘The Service Offering’, such as configuration, upgrades, throughput, you’ll be the first person our Partners and end customers will come to. Tasks can include installing and configuring systems, diagnosing hardware/software faults and solving technical problems, either over the phone or face to face. Most importantly, as a customer cannot afford to be without safety communications for more than the minimum time taken to repair or replace, your technical support is vital to the ongoing operation of that vessel, aircraft or land based terminal and the lives of those relying on these services.

**Some tasks you may be involved in include**:

- Logging and keeping records of customer issues and solutions to enable Business Improvement initiatives
- Updating self-help documents so customers and colleagues can try to fix problems themselves
- Testing and fixing faulty equipment

**Key Responsibilities**:
This role will allow you to demonstrate and challenge your technical knowledge giving you the opportunity to work within a passionate, enthusiastic team that display a proactive, zealous and dedicated passion for our customer and their requirements, providing empathy drive and pioneering a level of service our customers want and deserves.
- You have a keen interest to understand everything technical and spend hours taking things apart and putting them back together to see how and why they work. Your interest is now focused on the world of communications for both packet switched and circuit switched services. (**Technical troubleshooting skills / Solution and Customer Focused / Attention to detail / Organised)**:

- You are exceptionally customer focused and love assisting other people overcome technical challenges, which drives you to identify solutions, which are both inspirational and innovative. (**Innovation and drive / Leadership qualities / Solution and Customer Focused)**:

- You understand why communications are critical and using your technical ability can ensure that network connectivity is maintained. (**Technical troubleshooting skills / Solution and Customer Focused)**:

- You are a fantastic communicator and you are keen to share your ideas (**Effective communicator / Initiative / Drive)**:

- You are keen to expand your technical knowledge and thrive on finding the right solution and sharing this with your colleagues. (**Technical troubleshooting skills / Attention to detail / Team player)**:

- You are keen to drive creativity that can influence a commercial organisation (**Leadership qualities / Negotiation and Influencing skills /Confident)**

**A position to challenge you**:

- You will support our customers offering them an experience second to none.
- Qualified to a network level or have equivalent knowledge and capabilities. You will be confident in your own knowledge and abilities. With your solid communications experience and sound judgment you will be able to take strategic risks when needed.
- You will be self-motivated and tenacious in ensuring that even under pressure; tight deadlines will be met with your customer’s needs coming first.
- You will be proactive in maintaining and growing a strong technical awareness along with a solid commercial knowledge all enabling you to consult and deliver appropriate solutions to your customers, building loyalty and rapport as you go.
- You will manage cases in line with customer’s expectations securing SLAs and KPIs.
- You will participate in troubleshooting any GX service system or hardware issue raised by our channel, NOC or other internal parties.
- You will assist in GX end-to-end troubleshooting in regards to spectrum issues on the over-the-air interface and issues on the hub side, related to line cards, protocol processors and cisco routers.
- You will support GX network/syst