Technical Support Shift Manager
Surf Internet · LaPorte Office, LaPorte, Indiana, United States
Overview
The Technical Support Shift Manager is responsible for the daily leadership and operational performance of the Technical Support team during their assigned shift. This role ensures proper staffing, queue coverage, service levels, employee productivity, and consistent customer experience.
The Shift Manager serves as the primary leadership presence during the assigned shift, providing coaching, managing escalations, monitoring performance, and making real-time operational decisions. This position works closely with the Technical Support Manager and cross-functional teams to maintain consistent processes, improve performance, and achieve departmental goals.
Reports To: Technical Support Manager
Department: Technical Support
Job Status: Exempt
Responsibilities:
- Provide direct leadership and operational oversight for Tier 1 and Tier 2 Technical Support employees during the assigned shift.
- Take ownership of shift performance, including staffing, queue coverage, service levels, productivity, customer experience, and escalations.
- Monitor real-time staffing, schedules, attendance, breaks, lunches, and queue availability to ensure appropriate customer coverage.
- Make staffing adjustments based on call volume, ticket volume, outages, service levels, and other operational needs.
- Conduct regular coaching and one-on-one meetings focused on technical knowledge, customer experience, productivity, quality, and employee development.
- Conduct employee performance reviews and provide clear feedback, development plans, and performance expectations.
- Review and approve employee timecards and ensure compliance with company policies.
- Monitor inbound calls, chats, emails, tickets, and other customer contact channels to maintain efficient workload distribution and response times.
- Coordinate Technical Support response during outages, high-volume periods, and other service-impacting events.
- Escalate significant operational or customer-impacting issues to the Technical Support Manager, Network Operations Center, Service & Repair, Care, and other appropriate teams.
- Maintain effective shift-to-shift communication regarding outages, staffing concerns, escalations, and outstanding issues.
- Ensure department and employee performance metrics are achieved, including:
- Service Level Agreement (SLA) performance
- Transactional Net Promoter Score (tNPS)
- Agent productivity and efficiency
- Schedule adherence and queue availability
- Response and resolution times
- Customer satisfaction and quality performance
- Attendance and punctuality
- Utilize Workforce Management tools and operational reporting to ensure schedule adherence.
- Identify performance trends, operational gaps, and opportunities to improve processes, workflows, documentation, and customer experience.
- Reinforce department policies, procedures, and standard operating procedures to ensure consistent execution across shifts.
- Partner with the Technical Support Manager on employee training, professional development, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Collaborate with Network Operations, Service & Repair, Customer Care, Sales, Dispatch, and other departments to resolve customer-impacting issues.
- Assist with recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, and training new Technical Support employees.
- Foster a team environment centered on accountability, teamwork, technical development, customer service, and continuous improvement.
- Provide evening, weekend, holiday, or after-hours leadership support when business needs are required.
- Perform other duties and projects as assigned.