Service Desk Technician

Corporate Services | Technology | Canberra

• Permanent, full-time position
• Reward and recognition, including competitive remuneration and career progression
• Learning and career development programs for all roles and levels
• Market competitive and flexible leave options
• Free daily breakfast, office drinks and social events
• Genuine commitment to health and wellbeing, pro bono and community, and diversity and inclusion across our firm

Learn more about what Hall & Wilcox can offer you:

About the role and team

We have an opportunity for a Service Desk Technician with 1–2 years of experience to join our Technology team, based in our Canberra office.

As an experienced Service Desk Technician, you will provide systems support nationally and desktop support for the Canberra Office. You will act as the first point of contact to efficiently investigate, resolve and provide a high level of customer service for a variety of technology related service requests. You will be required to be in the office full time (5 days per week).

This role forms part of our national Technology team. The IT team at Hall & Wilcox has approximately 23 team members nationally. The Technology team at Hall & Wilcox is structured across engineering and development, application support, information security and service desk.

You will be responsible for:

• responding to user inquiries by following service desk procedures;
• providing support across a range of hardware and software, at level 1 and level 2;
• ensuring all user requests are logged in service desk system;
• escalating more complex queries;
• coordinating the timely provision of service desk support services;
• communicating to users as to the progress of their inquiries from receipt to closure of the call;
• advising users about service desk and operational support facilities and procedures;
• identifying and advising Service Delivery Manager/IT Manager of recurrent user inquiries;
• updating and maintaining the call-log to ensure accurate recording of all calls received;
• attending court to safely and securely download subpoenaed (and similar) documents produced by court;
• ensuring all portal storage devices are barcoded, scanned for malware, and registered in line with the firm's portable storage devices process;
• ensuring data contained on portable storage devices is securely downloaded and deleted in line with the firm's portable storage device process; and
• providing back up to other Service Desk Technicians and broader Technology team as required.

About you

You will ideally have the following skills and experience:

• at least 1 year of experience as a Service Desk Technician or in a similar role within a professional services environment;
• tertiary qualification in Information Technology or a related discipline;
• strong organisational skills;
• strong attention to detail;
• excellent customer service skills;
• excellent verbal and written communication skills;
• self-motivated, decisive, with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands; and
• ability to work well independently as well as productively within a team.

About us

Hall & Wilcox is a leading independent Australian law firm. We deliver outstanding legal services to corporate, public sector and private clients, both Australian-based and those offshore doing business in Australia. Our purpose is to enable our clients, our people and our communities to thrive.

Hear from our people about what it's like to work at HW:

Some of our recent awards and citations include:

• Best Australian Law Firm (>$200m revenue) at the 2025 Client Choice Awards
• Ranked 7th in the Lawyers Weekly Top 25 Attraction Firms for 2024 and 2025
• Law Firm of the Year at the 2023 Lawyers Weekly Australian Law Awards
• Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality (EOCGE) citation holder since 2018

We are known for having a great culture that is warm and welcoming, progressive, inclusive and supportive, and that is underpinned by our enduring values - known as Hallmarks.

We are also renowned for our Smarter Law approach. Smarter Law means we look beyond the status quo to think differently and find solutions. Smarter Law includes enabling technology, challenging business models, innovative pricing and creative resourcing.

We are a firm of the future. We offer our people interesting and challenging work, and access to great clients. To learn more about HW visit our website.

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At Hall & Wilcox, we are committed to creating and maintaining a workplace that actively seeks to include, welcome and value unique contributions of all people. We encourage applications from candidates of all cultural backgrounds (including First Nations), age, abilities, sexual orientation and gender identities.

We are also committed to supporting candidates with disability so that every candidate is offered a fair, equitable and supportive recruitment experience. If you require any adjustments or support to complete your application, or if you have any questions, please contact Kim Chalmers, Senior Talent Acquisition Advisor, [email protected] for a confidential discussion.

This vacancy is being managed directly by the HW Talent Acquisition / People & Culture team. We will contact our preferred agency partners should we require any assistance.

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