About the role

  • IT Help Desk Team Leader for The Missing Link, overseeing Melbourne Service Desk, ensuring exceptional client experiences and team performance.

Responsibilities

  • Coach, mentor, and motivate a high-performing Service Desk team
  • Build trust, manage performance, and handle challenging conversations with confidence
  • Support hiring, onboarding, inductions, and ongoing development
  • Run performance reviews, probation check-ins, and training plans
  • Foster a positive, accountable, and collaborative team culture
  • Ensure workloads are balanced and resources are used effectively
  • Keep utilisation high while minimising non-billable admin time
  • Review leave, staffing levels, onsite work, and ticket volumes
  • Ensure timesheets, job notes, and processes are accurate and up to date
  • Make sure policies, procedures, and values are lived every day
  • Ensure SLAs are consistently met (and beaten)
  • Drive first-call resolution and excellent ticket hygiene
  • Maintain CSAT of **97%+**
  • Ensure Incident & Problem Management processes are followed
  • Prioritise managed clients and deliver predictable, high-quality outcomes
  • Act as the primary contact for key clients
  • Know their environments inside out and advocate for their needs
  • Collaborate closely with Account Managers
  • Communicate clearly, respond within 24 hours, and manage expectations
  • Provide Level 2 support when needed
  • Troubleshoot across on-prem, hybrid, and cloud environments
  • Work confidently with EUM, RMM, and ticketing systems
  • Support Autopilot troubleshooting, log collection, and Conditional Access
  • Help guide technical decisions and unblock the team

Requirements

  • 3+ years as a Service Desk Engineer (or similar)
  • 2+ years in a Service Experience Lead or leadership role
  • MSP and/or Cloud Services experience (highly desirable)
  • Strong technical foundations with a calm, logical troubleshooting approach
  • Proven people leadership skills — fair, firm, and empathetic
  • Proactive mindset — you seek work, improvements, and better ways of doing things
  • Microsoft or current industry certifications

Benefits

  • Supportive, collaborative and respectful environment
  • Company paid technical certifications
  • Competitive salary and bonus structure
  • Great environment with regular staff events
  • Free breakfast, soft drinks/juices and monthly lunches
  • Company culture that fosters learning and development through training and mentoring programs

Job title

IT Help Desk Team Leader

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

Location requirements

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