Help Desk Specialist I Shift Lead (copyright)

Help Desk Specialist I - Lead

The Help Desk Specialist I - Lead serves as the senior resource and daily point-of-contact for Help Desk Specialists providing first-contact technical and customer service support. This role supports queue management, ticket quality, escalations, and mentoring of junior staff, while still performing all standard duties. The Lead ensures that customer interactions, troubleshooting, and documentation meet required quality standards and that issues are resolved or escalated in accordance with procedures and SLAs.

Key tasks and responsibilities include:

• Providing advanced support and serving as the first escalation point for complex or sensitive customer issues.
• Monitoring ticket queues to ensure proper categorization, prioritization, assignment, and timely handling of all incidents and requests.
• Reviewing tickets for quality and completeness, ensuring accurate troubleshooting steps, documentation, and customer communication.
• Assisting with onboarding, training, and coaching of Help Desk Specialists I, including reinforcing procedures, scripts, escalation processes, and customer service standards.
• Supporting the Help Desk Supervisor in tracking team performance, identifying trends, and recommending process improvements.
• Coordinating daily workload distribution, ensuring adequate coverage for all communication channels (phone, email, online forms).
• Acting as shift lead or primary point of contact in the absence of the Help Desk Supervisor.
• Assisting with the development and maintenance of procedures, scripts, FAQs, and knowledge base articles.
• Monitoring customer satisfaction feedback and assisting with corrective actions or follow-up communications.
• Ensuring all incidents are properly logged, categorized, researched, and escalated following policies and established service disruption processes.
• Lead performs all duties while ensuring quality, timeliness, and proper escalation across the team.
• Support 24/7/365 operations by coordinating shift assignments and ensuring continuous coverage.
• Validate the accuracy of escalations to development teams and product owners, especially potential bugs or defects.
• Assist in preparing and reviewing daily statistical reports and verifying data accuracy prior to submission.
• Lead the review of customer satisfaction survey results and quality assurance findings, identifying root causes and recommending improvement actions.
• Prepare or contribute to weekly QA reports that include analysis of unresolved tickets, negative survey results, and systemic issues.

Education and experience:

• Two to four (2-4) years of customer service or IT support experience, including prior Service Desk or Contact Center experience.
• Leadership or senior technician experience is preferred.
• High School Diploma.

Certifications:

• ITIL certification v4 preferred.

Security clearance:

• Ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.

Onsite at customer location

$55,000 - $65,000 a year The offered rate will be based on the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity. Computer World Services is an affirmative action and equal employment opportunity employer. Current employees and/or qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations. Computer World Services is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Computer World Services will ensure that individuals with disabilities (IWD) are provided reasonable accommodations.