Are you a service desk leader who builds capable, client-focused technicians through structured coaching and development?

We’re hiring a Service Desk Manager to join an established managed IT services provider supporting businesses across many industries. The role owns the performance and development of the Tier 1 and Tier 2 service desk, ensuring client issues across multiple environments are resolved with professionalism and empathy.

This is a people leadership role for someone who moves comfortably between coaching, structured performance development, client relationship recovery, and service desk process improvement.

You’ll have the time to work directly with the team and the latitude to recommend changes to established processes, working closely with operations leadership and clients.

? Who You Are

- A people leader whose first priority is coaching and developing technicians, with the discipline to protect that time from a crowded meeting calendar

- A motivator who builds confidence in technicians who are still learning to support many different client environments

- Someone who sees rapport, empathy and client confidence as the true measure of a service interaction, not only the resolution

- A calm, respectful point of escalation who handles difficult client conversations with care

? Work Type

- Location: Windsor, ON (On-site)

- Vacancy Type: This role reflects an existing vacancy

- On-Call: Participation in the management on-call rotation, including occasional after-hours and weekend escalations

Requirements

? What You’ll Do

- Lead and develop service desk technicians through monthly one-on-ones, development plans and call reviews

- Manage multi-shift scheduling for 24/7 coverage, including holiday planning and the alerting rotation in tools such as Signl4

- Hire and onboard recent technicians, including ramp plans,

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- Act as the escalation point for client experience issues, including direct client calls and service recovery

- Oversee the Priority 1 incident process, from prompt action and stakeholder communication through to post-mortems and problem tickets

- Supervise the Dispatch Coordinator, who manages queue health, aging tickets and SLA adherence

- Lead the daily Operations stand-up as a member of the Operations Leadership Team, setting the day’s priorities

- Represent the service desk at the Change Advisory Board and in process improvement and automation reviews

- Build and maintain KPI dashboards in Bright Gauge, tracking call statistics and client satisfaction trends for senior management

⭐ What We’re Looking For

- 5+ years of experience leading a service desk or technical support team, ideally within an MSP or 24/7 service environment

- A proven record of hiring, coaching, performance management and scheduling across a multi-shift team

- Experience leading client escalation and service recovery calls

- Experience owning a P1 or major incident process, including post-incident reviews and problem management

- Working knowledge of PSA/ITSM tooling such as Connect Wise, ticketing workflows and SLA management

- Experience building KPI reporting in Bright Gauge or a similar tool for senior stakeholders

- Comfortable representing the service desk in governance forums such as a Change Advisory Board

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