Technical advisor job description
Updated March 14, 2024
10 min read
Find better candidates in less time
Post a job on Zippia and take the best from over 7 million monthly job seekers.
Example technical advisor requirements on a job description
Technical advisor requirements can be divided into technical requirements and required soft skills. The lists below show the most common requirements included in technical advisor job postings.
Sample technical advisor requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in technical support
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, C++, or Python
- Strong knowledge of software development methodologies
- Familiarity with database management systems
Sample required technical advisor soft skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
- Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills
- Adaptability and flexibility in a dynamic work environment
- Strong analytical and organizational skills
Technical advisor job description example 1
Office Depot technical advisor job description
At Office Depot and Office Max, the Sales Advisor is a part-time role, providing exceptional customer service by performing duties as cashier, provides logistics support, stocking, restocking, down stocking, inventory control, cleaning the store and protecting company assets. S/he will quickly build and maintain customer relationships and become a trusted advisor by utilizing basic training of Technology products/services and print offerings.
The associate in this role will demonstrates a passion for the brand, technology products, furniture, services, print and other services/products offered to our customers. S/he will utilize Office Depot and Office Max’s proven sales principles to proactively engage customers, in order to drive the sales of our total offerings and properly assess customer needs to ensure satisfaction in every interaction.
Required successful completion of current basic Tech and Print Certification and continued education in these areas. The essential functions of this position may require you to consent to periodic comprehensive background checks conducted by a third-party.
Primary Responsibility:
1. Provides exceptional customer service by performing duties as cashier, provides logistics support, stocking, restocking, down stocking, inventory control, cleaning the store and protecting company assets.
2. Performs merchandise-related activities to ensure merchandise presentation guidelines are met through implementing plan-o-gram changes and updates, merchandise set and price changes. Sets weekly ads, including price changes, and any associated updates to store signage.
3. Follows the established sorting and stocking guidelines and completes freight processes. Ensures freight sorting area is organized and setup in accordance with guidelines. Scans, investigates and fills inventory lows and outs daily.
4. Proactively acknowledges and engages every customer to ensure a positive customer experience. Utilizes and understands the selling program to promote the sale of the best solution as well as additional product and/or services solutions. Maintains awareness of planned advertisements and promotions.
5. Able to evaluate the customer’s needs to determine what additional offerings or services that a customer may need in addition to determining if a customer should be referred to the Contract Sales organization.
6. Works to develop personal selling skills and specialized product knowledge through sales and service tools provided. Drives Technology, Tech Services, Furniture and Print sales by supporting all related current programs, new product launches and special initiatives.
7. Ensures compliance with company policies, procedures and practices; and supports company loss prevention efforts.
Education & Experience
High School diploma or equivalent education preferred
Retail sales experience preferred
How to Apply
Click the Apply Now button and follow the instructions on each page. When you have completed the application, click the submit button.
Pay, Benefits & Work Schedule
Office Depot and OfficeMax offers competitive salaries, a benefits package, which includes a 401(k) and more, along with plenty of opportunity to move and grow within our organization! For immediate consideration for this exciting position, please click the Apply Now button.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Office Depot and OfficeMax is committed to providing equal employment opportunities in all employment practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender (including gender identity and expression), ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, marital status (including registered domestic partnership status), age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Other Information
Must possess strong interpersonal and communication skills, which are necessary to establish a selling relationship with customers Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills Must possess the ability to use technology applicable to role, and to access information necessary to complete daily responsibilities Must possess ability to process information/merchandise through POS register system Must possess an interest in continually developing personal selling skills and product knowledge;
Positive and Engaging Action Oriented Integrity & Trust Demonstrate passion for the brand, products, services and solutions offered to our customers Must possess a desire to continually develop personal selling skills and product knowledge
Ability to work a flexible work schedule as business dictates Customer Focus Self Learning Approachability
Fair Chance Ordinance
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records City & County of San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
The associate in this role will demonstrates a passion for the brand, technology products, furniture, services, print and other services/products offered to our customers. S/he will utilize Office Depot and Office Max’s proven sales principles to proactively engage customers, in order to drive the sales of our total offerings and properly assess customer needs to ensure satisfaction in every interaction.
Required successful completion of current basic Tech and Print Certification and continued education in these areas. The essential functions of this position may require you to consent to periodic comprehensive background checks conducted by a third-party.
Primary Responsibility:
1. Provides exceptional customer service by performing duties as cashier, provides logistics support, stocking, restocking, down stocking, inventory control, cleaning the store and protecting company assets.
2. Performs merchandise-related activities to ensure merchandise presentation guidelines are met through implementing plan-o-gram changes and updates, merchandise set and price changes. Sets weekly ads, including price changes, and any associated updates to store signage.
3. Follows the established sorting and stocking guidelines and completes freight processes. Ensures freight sorting area is organized and setup in accordance with guidelines. Scans, investigates and fills inventory lows and outs daily.
4. Proactively acknowledges and engages every customer to ensure a positive customer experience. Utilizes and understands the selling program to promote the sale of the best solution as well as additional product and/or services solutions. Maintains awareness of planned advertisements and promotions.
5. Able to evaluate the customer’s needs to determine what additional offerings or services that a customer may need in addition to determining if a customer should be referred to the Contract Sales organization.
6. Works to develop personal selling skills and specialized product knowledge through sales and service tools provided. Drives Technology, Tech Services, Furniture and Print sales by supporting all related current programs, new product launches and special initiatives.
7. Ensures compliance with company policies, procedures and practices; and supports company loss prevention efforts.
Education & Experience
High School diploma or equivalent education preferred
Retail sales experience preferred
How to Apply
Click the Apply Now button and follow the instructions on each page. When you have completed the application, click the submit button.
Pay, Benefits & Work Schedule
Office Depot and OfficeMax offers competitive salaries, a benefits package, which includes a 401(k) and more, along with plenty of opportunity to move and grow within our organization! For immediate consideration for this exciting position, please click the Apply Now button.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Office Depot and OfficeMax is committed to providing equal employment opportunities in all employment practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender (including gender identity and expression), ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, marital status (including registered domestic partnership status), age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Other Information
Must possess strong interpersonal and communication skills, which are necessary to establish a selling relationship with customers Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills Must possess the ability to use technology applicable to role, and to access information necessary to complete daily responsibilities Must possess ability to process information/merchandise through POS register system Must possess an interest in continually developing personal selling skills and product knowledge;
Positive and Engaging Action Oriented Integrity & Trust Demonstrate passion for the brand, products, services and solutions offered to our customers Must possess a desire to continually develop personal selling skills and product knowledge
Ability to work a flexible work schedule as business dictates Customer Focus Self Learning Approachability
Fair Chance Ordinance
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records City & County of San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Post a job for free, promote it for a fee
Technical advisor job description example 2
Veolia Water Tech technical advisor job description
NOTE: This position is Remote/Hybrid with an estimated two days out of the week spent in a local office. Potential locations include Paramus (NY/NJ), Boston, Tampa, Houston, Austin, Milwaukee, or Chicago.
Veolia North America is growing and looking for a Talent Advisor to specialize in our Information Technology and Information Systems (IT&S) openings.
You will be part of a high visibility team focused on having a direct impact on the business whilst recruiting for top talent across the industry. You will need to draw on extensive knowledge of the business; forge dynamic relationships with leaders, managers, HRBP's and work directly in partnership with team members to help Veolia continue our mission to be the leader in Ecological transformation.
The Talent Advisor will report to the Recruiting Manager, Corporate Business Services and be accountable for full cycle talent acquisition, delivering effective talent acquisition services and solutions to the business to meet current and anticipated future hiring demands with added focus on process efficiencies, managing cost, and increasing value while complying with external legal and regulatory requirements and ensuring alignment with established internal standards and guidelines.
Provide full cycle talent acquisition support to assigned client base developing robust, insightful sourcing and branding plans to attract and recruit qualified and diverse talent
Day to day responsibility for building a talent pipeline to fill open roles
Serve as talent advisor with deep understanding of client business and knowledgeable of talent availability in the marketplace
Cultivate and maintain relationships to source top talent that meet qualifications and organizational fit
Partner with hiring managers, business leaders and HR Business Partners to understand business needs to ensure recruitment strategies are aligned, functioning as subject matter expert on all recruitment activities pertaining to area of responsibility for the region or function
Educate and counsel hiring managers on recruitment policies and procedures, interviewing techniques & guidelines and compliance and understanding of EEO/OFCCP laws and regulations
Interface with and manage vendors and recruitment agencies to ensure adherence to program terms and conditions and hiring process standards
Track and report recruiting status reports to clients and HR Business Partners
Lead and participate in recruiting-related projects and initiatives
Ensure standard operating procedures and service level agreements are adhered to
Stay abreast of industry trends, best practices, employment law, and technological advancements
Participation in industry conferences and training to help promote a “outside, in” brand marketing of the Veolia recruiting brand
Proactive recruiting and networking on job boards aka: LinkedIn
Veolia North America is growing and looking for a Talent Advisor to specialize in our Information Technology and Information Systems (IT&S) openings.
You will be part of a high visibility team focused on having a direct impact on the business whilst recruiting for top talent across the industry. You will need to draw on extensive knowledge of the business; forge dynamic relationships with leaders, managers, HRBP's and work directly in partnership with team members to help Veolia continue our mission to be the leader in Ecological transformation.
The Talent Advisor will report to the Recruiting Manager, Corporate Business Services and be accountable for full cycle talent acquisition, delivering effective talent acquisition services and solutions to the business to meet current and anticipated future hiring demands with added focus on process efficiencies, managing cost, and increasing value while complying with external legal and regulatory requirements and ensuring alignment with established internal standards and guidelines.
Provide full cycle talent acquisition support to assigned client base developing robust, insightful sourcing and branding plans to attract and recruit qualified and diverse talent
Day to day responsibility for building a talent pipeline to fill open roles
Serve as talent advisor with deep understanding of client business and knowledgeable of talent availability in the marketplace
Cultivate and maintain relationships to source top talent that meet qualifications and organizational fit
Partner with hiring managers, business leaders and HR Business Partners to understand business needs to ensure recruitment strategies are aligned, functioning as subject matter expert on all recruitment activities pertaining to area of responsibility for the region or function
Educate and counsel hiring managers on recruitment policies and procedures, interviewing techniques & guidelines and compliance and understanding of EEO/OFCCP laws and regulations
Interface with and manage vendors and recruitment agencies to ensure adherence to program terms and conditions and hiring process standards
Track and report recruiting status reports to clients and HR Business Partners
Lead and participate in recruiting-related projects and initiatives
Ensure standard operating procedures and service level agreements are adhered to
Stay abreast of industry trends, best practices, employment law, and technological advancements
Participation in industry conferences and training to help promote a “outside, in” brand marketing of the Veolia recruiting brand
Proactive recruiting and networking on job boards aka: LinkedIn
Dealing with hard-to-fill positions? Let us help.
Technical advisor job description example 3
Southern California Gas Tower Inc technical advisor job description
Technical Advisor II - CCM Pi AdminFull-time
Primary Purpose
Aids with the design, development, implementation, maintenance, and enhancement of full cycle of OSI PI/AVEVA suite of software services, integration/transport, processing and/or visualization, and associated systems to support the analytics needs of data/business analysts or data scientists. Consults with and provides technical guidance to business partners, IT peer teams, regarding data requirements, design, processes and technical solutions. Aids with analytics project workstreams and/or smaller integration or visualization projects. Works with multiple business subject areas/data domains and applies expertise in OSI PI/AVEVA technology and data capabilities (integration, storage/processing, visualization).
Job Duties
* Participates in the design, creation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of OSI PI system, tags, interfaces, data archive, PI visualization suite, integrators (GIS & BA) and general processing. Provide support with data analytics projects and initiatives. Manage the OSI PI data catalog, metadata repository and any associated data management efforts. Work with vendor partners and/or team to ensure solutions using OSI PI data are designed and developed in a way that complies with architectural standards and established methodologies and practices.
* Solution development and support: Compile data requirements, perform data analysis and implement logical data modeling requirements/designs, define data and object elements. Build and scale data ingestion and transformation processes. Build datasets, tools and documentation to enable analysts, end users and data scientists to build analytics and reports. Design, build and implement processes to monitor/visualize performance that enables actionable operational improvements.
* Collaboration/Continuous Improvement: Expand and support continuous improvement via identification, root cause analysis, resolution of problems and implementing recommend preventive designs/techniques. Monitor and report to management on the status of project efforts, anticipating and identifying issues that inhibit the attainment of project goals and implementing corrective actions. Support the automation of manual processes and optimizing data delivery, for greater analytics scalability, etc. Participate with staff, business/vendor partners, and other stakeholders in new product reviews, tests, and pilots. Foster and maintain good relationships with business partners, IT and vendor partners. Develop business knowledge and relationships to integrate activities with other project initiatives to ensure successful implementation and support project efforts.
Education
* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or other quantitative field is preferred.
Requirements
* Five years of professional experience as a PI analyst or engineer or equivalent .
* Experience building and optimizing PI interfaces, managing data archives, providing architectural solutions and data sets.
* Experience assisting end users with the use of PI tools, like PI System Explorer, PI System Management Tool, PI Interface Configuration Utility, Data Link and PI Vision.
* Experience building PI AF hierarchies, templates, analyses, calculations, event frames and notifications.
* Experience working in an agile/scrum environment
* Experience dealing with competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
* Proven track record of translating technical objectives into engineering reality
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
* Expertise of PI system including the PI Data Archive, PI Interfaces, PI Asset Framework, PI Integrator for BA and PI Vision.
* Expertise in installation, configuration, and monitoring support for the PI system servers and various PI system data interfaces
* Knowledge of change management processes.
* Working knowledge of SQL and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases tools.
* Strong analytic skills related to working with structured and unstructured datasets.
* Solid teamwork and interpersonal skills; ability to work well on cross-functional project teams and with vendor partners.
* Self-directed and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams, systems and products
* Strong verbal and written communications skills, with an ability to express complex technical concepts in business terms
* Strong attention to detail with excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
HYBRID: Work a combination of onsite and remote days each week, typically 2-3 days per week.Oct 22, 2022
Primary Purpose
Aids with the design, development, implementation, maintenance, and enhancement of full cycle of OSI PI/AVEVA suite of software services, integration/transport, processing and/or visualization, and associated systems to support the analytics needs of data/business analysts or data scientists. Consults with and provides technical guidance to business partners, IT peer teams, regarding data requirements, design, processes and technical solutions. Aids with analytics project workstreams and/or smaller integration or visualization projects. Works with multiple business subject areas/data domains and applies expertise in OSI PI/AVEVA technology and data capabilities (integration, storage/processing, visualization).
Job Duties
* Participates in the design, creation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of OSI PI system, tags, interfaces, data archive, PI visualization suite, integrators (GIS & BA) and general processing. Provide support with data analytics projects and initiatives. Manage the OSI PI data catalog, metadata repository and any associated data management efforts. Work with vendor partners and/or team to ensure solutions using OSI PI data are designed and developed in a way that complies with architectural standards and established methodologies and practices.
* Solution development and support: Compile data requirements, perform data analysis and implement logical data modeling requirements/designs, define data and object elements. Build and scale data ingestion and transformation processes. Build datasets, tools and documentation to enable analysts, end users and data scientists to build analytics and reports. Design, build and implement processes to monitor/visualize performance that enables actionable operational improvements.
* Collaboration/Continuous Improvement: Expand and support continuous improvement via identification, root cause analysis, resolution of problems and implementing recommend preventive designs/techniques. Monitor and report to management on the status of project efforts, anticipating and identifying issues that inhibit the attainment of project goals and implementing corrective actions. Support the automation of manual processes and optimizing data delivery, for greater analytics scalability, etc. Participate with staff, business/vendor partners, and other stakeholders in new product reviews, tests, and pilots. Foster and maintain good relationships with business partners, IT and vendor partners. Develop business knowledge and relationships to integrate activities with other project initiatives to ensure successful implementation and support project efforts.
Education
* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or other quantitative field is preferred.
Requirements
* Five years of professional experience as a PI analyst or engineer or equivalent .
* Experience building and optimizing PI interfaces, managing data archives, providing architectural solutions and data sets.
* Experience assisting end users with the use of PI tools, like PI System Explorer, PI System Management Tool, PI Interface Configuration Utility, Data Link and PI Vision.
* Experience building PI AF hierarchies, templates, analyses, calculations, event frames and notifications.
* Experience working in an agile/scrum environment
* Experience dealing with competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
* Proven track record of translating technical objectives into engineering reality
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
* Expertise of PI system including the PI Data Archive, PI Interfaces, PI Asset Framework, PI Integrator for BA and PI Vision.
* Expertise in installation, configuration, and monitoring support for the PI system servers and various PI system data interfaces
* Knowledge of change management processes.
* Working knowledge of SQL and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases tools.
* Strong analytic skills related to working with structured and unstructured datasets.
* Solid teamwork and interpersonal skills; ability to work well on cross-functional project teams and with vendor partners.
* Self-directed and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams, systems and products
* Strong verbal and written communications skills, with an ability to express complex technical concepts in business terms
* Strong attention to detail with excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
HYBRID: Work a combination of onsite and remote days each week, typically 2-3 days per week.Oct 22, 2022
Start connecting with qualified job seekers
Resources for employers posting technical advisor jobs
Technical advisor job description FAQs
Ready to start hiring?
Updated March 14, 2024