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IT Operations Supervisor (FTC)Oxford Instruments • High Wycombe, England, UK
IT Operations Supervisor (FTC)

IT Operations Supervisor (FTC)

Oxford Instruments • High Wycombe, England, UK
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

At Oxford Instruments we enable the worlds leading industrial companies and scientific research communities to image analyse and manipulate materials down to the atomic and molecular level. With a sixty-year history and fourteen Queens Awards for Enterprise our world-class products and technologies are helping our customers to address the greatest challenges of the 21st century.

Were looking for a proactive and organised IT Operations Supervisor to join our Group IT team on a maternity cover basis.

In this role youll be at the heart of our IT service deliveryensuring smooth day-to-day operations across our global service desk acting as an escalation point and helping drive high-quality support for our colleagues worldwide.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with strong service desk or IT operations experience who enjoys problem-solving stakeholder engagement and keeping things running efficiently in a fast-paced environment.

What Youll Be Doing

Service Desk & Operations Management

  • Act as the primary escalation point for Service Delivery Analysts and Engineers
  • Monitor and manage ticket queues to ensure issues are prioritised and resolved efficiently
  • Identify and proactively manage high-priority or at-risk tickets
  • Ensure service delivery aligns with agreed SLAs and escalate risks where needed

Collaboration & Service Delivery

  • Work closely with global IT teams and infrastructure specialists to deliver reliable IT services
  • Ensure incidents and requests are routed to the correct technical teams
  • Produce operational reports and insights to monitor performance and service health

Project & Request Coordination

  • Support the delivery of IT projects ensuring coordination of activities timelines and communications
  • Maintain documentation track actions and organise meetings/workshops
  • Oversee software licensing and new software requests ensuring approvals and compliance
  • Liaise with suppliers and stakeholders to ensure timely delivery of services

What Were Looking For

Essential Experience & Skills

  • Experience in an IT service desk IT operations or service delivery role
  • Strong understanding of ticket management triage prioritisation and SLA management
  • Ability to act as a calm effective escalation point
  • Confident using ITSM tools to track and manage workloads
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple priorities
  • Strong attention to detail particularly around reporting and software requests

Desirable

  • Experience supporting IT project coordination
  • Knowledge of ITIL principles or service management frameworks
  • Experience producing service reports or dashboards
  • Familiarity with software licensing or approval workflows

Why Join Us

  • Be part of a collaborative global IT function
  • Gain exposure to enterprise-level IT operations and projects
  • Play a key role in delivering high-quality IT services across the business
  • Work in an environment that values being inclusive innovative trusted and purposeful

Apply Now

If youre an organised IT professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys making a real impact on service delivery wed love to hear from you.

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race colour religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin or disability.

Note to recruitment agencies: Oxford Instruments operates a Preferred Supplier List and we do not accept unsolicited agency CVs. Please do not forward candidate details in response to this advert or to any Oxford Instruments employees or other company locations. Oxford Instruments is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited CVs.


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