PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
Deskside Operations Management
- Lead day-to-day operation of delivery of Desk Side Support services to a federal customer.
- Ensure tickets are logged, categorized, and updated in the IT service management platform with complete lifecycle documentation.
- Direct workflow execution to maintain timely response and resolution for end-user support needs.
- Create documentation knowledge articles and understanding of project management
- Ability to work with Cross functional teams
Incident, Request, and Escalation Control
- Oversee end-to-end incident and outage management, including triage, prioritization, escalation, notification, and closure.
- Guide technicians through complex technical issues and enforce standardized escalation procedures for unresolved tickets.
- Ensure sensitive, timely handling of incidents affecting VIP and high-visibility users, applying defined impact/urgency criteria and escalation protocols.
- Partner with cross-functional IT teams to restore service rapidly and minimize operational disruption.
- Serve as the primary escalation point for complex hardware, software, and network issues that Tier II support techs cannot resolve
Team Leadership and Workforce Development
- Supervise and mentor IT support technicians, providing technical guidance, coaching, and operational direction.
- Assign workload across queues to balance capacity, improve throughput, and meet service-level targets.
- Train staff on SOPs, ticket quality standards, and customer service expectations for consistent execution.
- Support onboarding and continuous development of service desk personnel to improve team performance.
Performance Management, Compliance, and Service Improvement
- Track and report SLA performance metrics, ticket trends, and service outcomes to leadership.
- Audit queue activity and ticket records for documentation accuracy, compliance, and closure quality.
- Maintain and update support SOPs, workflows, and service delivery protocols in coordination with NRC stakeholders.
- Identify recurring issues and drive corrective actions, knowledge updates, and process improvements to reduce repeat incidents.
- Create standard operating procedures (SOPs)
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Citizenship/Work Authorization: Must meet contract requirements.
Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain NRC Public Trust (up to Q clearance if required).
Education: Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or 4 years of experience in leu of degree.
Experience:
- Minimum 4 years of IT support experience in an enterprise service desk or desktop support environment.
- US citizenship is required
- Minimum 2 years of leadership or supervisory experience managing service desk technicians.
- Experience applying ITIL-based incident management, escalation control, and KLI/SLA-driven performance management.
Technical Skills:
- Strong knowledge of ITIL processes, incident management, and Key Learning Indicators (KLIs).
- IT service management (ITSM) ticketing systems for incident and service request lifecycle management.
- Ticket queue monitoring, SLA compliance tracking, and performance reporting.
- Escalation management and cross-team coordination for complex incident resolution.
- Documentation accuracy and quality control within the ITSM system.
- IT Project Management experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience leading deskside operations on a federal IT services contract.
- Demonstrated success improving SLA attainment through queue optimization and workflow redesign.
- Experience supporting high-visibility users and coordinating major incident communications.
- Strong background in knowledge management and self-service enablement to reduce repeat tickets.
- ITIL 4 Foundation
- ServiceNow Certified System Administrator (CSA) or ServiceNow Experience
WORK ENVIRONMENT / OTHER
Operational Support: May require participation in on-call or surge support activities depending on operational needs.
Location: On-site at NRC headquarters Rockville, MD.
Travel: As required per contract direction.
Original Posting:
September 14, 2026
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $65,650.00 - $118,675.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
