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Desktop Support Lead

Ac3Sydney, Sydney🇦🇺AustraliaPosted 2 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This is a fantastic opportunity to step into your first lead role within a globally recognized automotive leader, offering hands-on experience and the chance to shape support processes. You'll thrive here if you're an experienced IT support professional ready to mentor a team, optimize workflows, and contribute to a company known for innovation and excellence. Embrace this chance to grow your leadership skills in a dynamic, on-site environment.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Full Time
Work mode
On Site
Location
Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Job Description

  • Step up from IT Support into your first hands on lead role
  • Work from a modern office with free parking and a nearby gym
  • Make luxury vehicles and performance cars part of your daily view
  • Step up from IT Support into your first hands on lead role
  • Work from a modern office with free parking and a nearby gym
  • Make luxury vehicles and performance cars part of your daily view
About the organisation

Join one of the world's largest automotive groups, renowned for innovation, engineering excellence and some of the industry's most recognised vehicle brands. With a global footprint spanning over 150 countries, this organisation offers a collaborative, enterprise-scale environment where you'll work with modern technologies while supporting a diverse and professional user base.

About the role

This is an ideal role for an experienced Level 1-2 Support person who wants to step up into a lead position.

Alongside resolving incidents and supporting users, you'll oversee incoming requests, allocate tickets, manage team workloads and ensure issues are progressed through to resolution. You'll also provide practical people leadership, including supporting team members, managing attendance and leave matters, and maintaining consistent service standards.

You'll thrive in a structured global environment where initiative, accountability, problem solving, and excellent customer service are highly valued.

Your key responsibilities will include
  • Lead the day to day activities of the desktop support team
  • Triage and allocate tickets based on priority, workload and team capability
  • Identify opportunities to streamline support workflows and remove unnecessary steps
  • Improve and standardise processes to create consistent, efficient ways of working
  • Take ownership of implementing improvements when a better approach is identified
  • Provide guidance, support and escalation assistance to team members
  • Manage day to day people matters, including attendance, maintaining team accountability, service standards, and adherence to processes
  • Assist with SOE deployments, upgrades and project work, including rollouts and migrations
  • Maintain accurate hardware and software asset management records
  • Follow global IT processes while taking ownership of incidents through to resolution
What you'll bring
  • Demonstrated desktop support experience in a large corporate environment
  • Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to support technical escalations
  • Experience working in a highly structured, process driven enterprise environment
  • The ability to handle day to day people matters fairly and professionally
  • Hands on experience re imaging laptops and deploying standard operating environments
What's in it for you
  • Work for one of the world's most recognised automotive brands
  • Gain exposure to enterprise technologies and global IT operations
  • Join a supportive, collaborative team that values ownership and initiative
  • Full time role with a 3 year term
  • Rare career development opportunity - no prior leadership required
  • Close-knit team with great culture, team building activities, and modern office amenities
  • Free onsite parking

If you're passionate about technology, enjoy solving problems, and take pride in delivering outstanding customer service, we'd love to hear from you.

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