At Oxford Instruments, we enable the world’s leading industrial companies and scientific research communities to image, analyse and manipulate materials down to the atomic and molecular level. With a sixty-year history, and fourteen Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, our world-class products and technologies are helping our customers to address the greatest challenges of the 21st century.
We’re looking for a proactive and organised IT Operations Supervisor to join our Group IT team on a maternity cover basis.
In this role, you’ll be at the heart of our IT service delivery—ensuring smooth day-to-day operations across our global service desk, acting as an escalation point, and helping drive high-quality support for our colleagues worldwide.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with strong service desk or IT operations experience who enjoys problem-solving, stakeholder engagement, and keeping things running efficiently in a fast-paced environment.
What You’ll Be Doing
Service Desk & Operations Management
- Act as the primary escalation point for Service Delivery Analysts and Engineers
- Monitor and manage ticket queues to ensure issues are prioritised and resolved efficiently
- Identify and proactively manage high-priority or at-risk tickets
- Ensure service delivery aligns with agreed SLAs and escalate risks where needed
Collaboration & Service Delivery
- Work closely with global IT teams and infrastructure specialists to deliver reliable IT services
- Ensure incidents and requests are routed to the correct technical teams
- Produce operational reports and insights to monitor performance and service health
Project & Request Coordination
- Support the delivery of IT projects, ensuring coordination of activities, timelines, and communications
- Maintain documentation, track actions, and organise meetings/workshops
- Oversee software licensing and new software requests, ensuring approvals and compliance
- Liaise with suppliers and stakeholders to ensure timely delivery of services
What We’re Looking For
Essential Experience & Skills
- Experience in an IT service desk, IT operations, or service delivery role
- Strong understanding of ticket management, triage, prioritisation, and SLA management
- Ability to act as a calm, effective escalation point
- Confident using ITSM tools to track and manage workloads
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple priorities
- Strong attention to detail, particularly around reporting and software requests
Desirable
- Experience supporting IT project coordination
- Knowledge of ITIL principles or service management frameworks
- Experience producing service reports or dashboards
- Familiarity with software licensing or approval workflows
Why Join Us?
- Be part of a collaborative, global IT function
- Gain exposure to enterprise-level IT operations and projects
- Play a key role in delivering high-quality IT services across the business
- Work in an environment that values being inclusive, innovative, trusted and purposeful
Apply Now
If you’re an organised IT professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys making a real impact on service delivery, we’d love to hear from you.
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.
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