Manager, Helpdesk & Support

Number of employees

840

Berkeley, CA or Pittsburgh, PA or Somerville, MA, USA

Posted on: 2023-06-09

Category: renewables

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Form Energy is an American company driving innovation in energy manufacturing and technology. Our cost-effective, multi-day energy storage technology is designed to ensure a clean, secure, and reliable electric grid, even during prolonged periods of stress.

We are assembling a team of talented and driven individuals to work at our facilities in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and California. If you’re eager to make a meaningful impact through your work, while rapidly accelerating your career, take a look at our open roles! 

Learn more and apply here: www.formenergy.com/careers

Are you ready to rise to the challenge of climate change with the team that will deliver? Form Energy is a U.S. technology and manufacturing company that is developing and commercializing pioneering energy storage technologies to enable the electric grid to run on 100% renewable energy, every day of the year.

Supported by leading investors such as Breakthrough Energy Ventures, ArcelorMittal, TPG Rise, MIT’s The Engine, and others, we share a common belief that low-cost, multi-day energy storage is the key to enable tomorrow’s zero carbon electric grid. Driven by our core values of humanity, excellence, and creativity, we are deeply motivated and inspired to create a better world. We need talented, hardworking individuals who share our goal of tackling the challenge of climate change. Do you want to work with us today to build a better tomorrow? 

Role Description
The Information Technology group at Form Energy collaborates closely and supports end users across the U.S. in four locations and with a distributed workforce of onsite, hybrid, and remote employees.

As the IT Service and Support Manager, you will be responsible for managing the daily operations of the service desk across a distributed onsite service desk team, supporting projects and IT activities across the company, representing the team with other stakeholder groups, and helping to ensure that the service desk is consistently developing and improving.

This is a new role, part of a growing IT group, and can be hybrid out of either our Berkeley CA, Eighty Four PA, or Somerville MA locations. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape and be part of a quickly growing and fast-moving company with breakthrough technology and an incredible mission!

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The California salary range for this role is $164,410-$202,785. The Massachusetts salary range for this role is $157,260-$193,970. The Pennsylvania salary range for this role is $142,965-$176,335. The range listed is what we reasonably expect to pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and may be modified in the future. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.

Besides joining a community of people working to make the world better, Form Energy commits to you equitable compensation, stock options, and offers a generous benefits package to make sure you have the support you need to thrive.

We cover 100% of employee premiums and 80% of dependent premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance for full time employees. We offer a flexible Paid Time Off program and every employee, regardless of gender identity or expression, is eligible for 12 weeks of paid parental bonding leave. A full listing of our benefits is available on our careers page

At Form Energy, we are working toward a 100% renewable energy future for everyone in the world. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees and are seeking to build a team that reflects the diversity of the people we hope to serve with our revolutionary products. Form Energy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

What You'll Do:

  • Effectively managing, developing, and training the service desk team
  • Ensuring that all processes used by the service desk are thoroughly documented, consistently audited, and regularly improved
  • Manage the service desk queue, assign tasks to team members, and help to qualify tickets with relevant information from customers prior to escalation to other teams
  • Coordinating and managing all relevant stakeholders, including the support desk team, customers, and other groups that are involved in service desk operations
  • Manage the purchasing of in-scope hardware and software
  • What You'll Bring:

  • The ability to build a cohesive team and to manage people effectively. This includes the ability to coach and develop the team
  • An ability to balance and plan the short-term actions of the team
  • Knowledge and understanding of best practices for service management.  Exposure to ITIL is a plus.
  • Strong understanding of service desk software and its reporting and automation capabilities.  JIRA iTSM is highly desirable
  • Hands-on experience with technology, ideally as an individual contributor in a role like Senior Support Technician or System administrator for 3-5 years prior to becoming a manager
  • 2-5 years of management experience in a corporate environment managing a helpdesk and support team
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