Thinking of leaving the service? telent needs you
Category: Job Finding
Publish date: 05/02/2020
telent Technology Services Ltd (telent), a specialist in the effective operation of the UK’s critical national infrastructure, operates in a host of industry sectors including rail, traffic, defence and public safety. The partner of choice for many organisations, including Highways England, Network Rail, Transport for London and BT, we deliver and support solutions and services that enable businesses to thrive by utilising all the technological tools available to them.
Whether you are making a call, using the Internet, travelling by road, rail, bus or tube, or even dialling 999, telent supports the technology that enables this to happen. Our employees work at the heart of national infrastructure holding networks together, keeping traffic flowing and in some cases, helping to save lives.
Why telent?
telent recruits for an array of roles, from technical, engineering and service roles to Project Management positions across a range of technologies. This can be from entry level with no experience - whereby telent will train and develop employees - to senior level positions. We provide the people who work for us with the opportunity to continuously develop their skills and knowledge, enabling them to grow in their expertise and experience.
We find success in recruiting ex-Forces personnel and Service leavers because we admire the attributes that are engrained in them. These skills include discipline, teamwork, leadership, the ability to stay calm under pressure, being comfortable in a fast-paced environment, good decision-making despite a high level of ambiguity, determination and problem solving.
An excellent example
Barry Zielinski, Operations and Service Director at telent, joined the company following his departure from the military in 1999. Barry carried out nine years’ service in the 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, and in that time, quickly reached the rank of Acting Sergeant. During his career, Barry was awarded the Best Gunner award, and for many years, he represented his regiment at both long distance running and rugby.
Having developed strong ICT skills, Barry joined Marconi in its prime and made the most of the millennium as a Senior ICT Engineer in London. In 2001, Barry helped win Marconi’s first major emergency services' ICT Services contract with Mersey Fire & Rescue Service. 18 years on, they remain a key customer with the current contract in place until 2022. Following the formation of telent in 2006, Barry continued to develop his career with the business, providing critical support to the emergency services sector, specifically in the Command and Control and Airwave services arena at a national level.
In 2019, Barry was promoted to Operations and Service Director at telent following his successful leadership of telent’s business in the emergency services sector as General Manager for several years. As part of Barry’s new role, he will oversee telent’s technical resources, pre-sales and customer service contracts, ensuring the effective and successful delivery of ongoing projects and services across telent’s Public Sector, Service Provider, Emergency Service and Defence customers.
With over 20 years’ experience in the public sector, Barry will also manage the integration of service desks and engineering functions across telent’s Network Services division. This will combine expertise and resources from different disciplines with Barry’s experience to enhance telent’s offerings for all customer sectors, including the emergency services.
telent careers
telent will be attending various Career Transition Partnership (CTP) Careers events throughout the UK over 2020, come and chat to us!
13th February - Salford
26th March - Newbury
30th April - Newark
11th June - Bristol
8th October - Southampton
26th November - Telford
For more information about the current vacancies and potential future career options for you at telent, please login to your RightJob account and search for telent.