Senior IT Support Specialist

Hines•Houston, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior IT Support Specialist provides technical support to Hines users across the United States and Canada, resolving standard and advanced help desk issues, responding to live chats, and delivering onsite and deskside support to the Houston office. Reporting to the Manager, IT Service Desk, the specialist works in ServiceNow, supports endpoint and mobile device management, and serves as an escalation point for complex user issues. The role collaborates with Desktop Engineering, Information Security, Infrastructure and Network, IT Asset Management, and other technology teams to provide a consistent end-user experience. It requires strong customer service, troubleshooting, documentation, and ticket-management skills. The specialist also participates in the Service Desk team's after-hours and weekend on-call rotation, approximately once every six weeks, and supports technology projects, hardware refreshes, office changes, and employee lifecycle activities. Hines describes itself as a privately held real assets firm with nearly seven decades of investment, development, and management experience. It operates across 29 countries and has more than 4,600 colleagues. The company states that it supports professional development, competitive rewards, comprehensive benefits, and a culture grounded in trust and high standards, and that it is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

Requirements

Associate's or bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
At least 5 years of progressive IT support or end-user technology experience in a corporate environment.
Hands-on experience supporting Windows and macOS endpoints, Microsoft 365, business applications, peripherals, printers, mobile devices, and collaboration tools.
Working knowledge of mobile device management, endpoint management, device enrollment, compliance, application deployment, and related troubleshooting.
Experience working in an ITSM platform, preferably ServiceNow, including incident, request, task, priority, escalation, and knowledge management processes.
Strong troubleshooting skills to diagnose hardware, operating system, application, identity, connectivity, and access issues.
Experience providing deskside support in a corporate office environment and ability to work independently with onsite users.
Ability to handle live chat and multiple concurrent tickets while maintaining service quality and accurate documentation.
Strong customer service, communication, organization, prioritization, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to participate in an after-hours and weekend on-call rotation approximately once every six weeks.
Ability to work onsite in the Houston office as required and support users across the United States and Canada.
Customer-focused approach, calm and reliable support, ownership, accountability, organization, and follow-through.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across cultures and geographies.
Ability to influence standards and outcomes without formal people-management authority.
Comfort working independently in a highly mobile role with changing priorities and time-sensitive office go-lives.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting endpoint security, Microsoft Intune, Entra ID, or comparable management platforms.

Responsibilities

Resolve standard and advanced help desk incidents, requests, and access issues for users across the United States and Canada.
Monitor and respond to live chats, ServiceNow tickets, email requests, and other approved Service Desk support channels.
Provide deskside and onsite technical support to the Houston office, including hardware, software, peripherals, conference room technology, connectivity, and user setup.
Troubleshoot Windows and macOS devices, Microsoft 365, applications, printers, peripherals, mobile devices, collaboration tools, and common business technologies.
Support mobile device management, including device enrollment, configuration, compliance, application access, troubleshooting, and user guidance.
Manage tickets through resolution in ServiceNow, maintaining accurate categorization, prioritization, notes, communications, time entries, and closure information.
Identify recurring issues and contribute to knowledge articles, support documentation, standard operating procedures, and service improvement activities.
Escalate issues to appropriate resolver groups or vendors while maintaining ownership through handoff.
Assist with hardware deployment, replacement, imaging, configuration, inventory updates, and asset lifecycle activities in coordination with IT Asset Management.
Support new user onboarding, transfers, terminations, workstation moves, conference room support, and other employee lifecycle activities.
Participate in technology projects, office changes, hardware refreshes, endpoint initiatives, and other activities assigned by the Manager, IT Service Desk.
Participate in the after-hours and weekend on-call rotation shared by the IT Service Desk team, approximately once every six weeks.
Maintain a professional, customer-focused presence and provide clear, timely communication to users and stakeholders.