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Start Software is an award-winning developer and leading publisher of asbestos software, systems for the legal services industry and more.
Want to know more about asbestos software Alpha Tracker? Alpha Tracker is the most used asbestos software in the UK, Australia & New Zealand with more than 60m items of asbestos data stored.
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Are you reasonably good at everything? Enjoy working in a small team? We're recruiting!
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I once saw a job advert with the headline "Are you reasonably good at everything?" and it really caught my eye. We're recruiting now for our Telford office and that phrase actually describes the person we're looking for - someone who would enjoy being our office administrator and also would relish speaking to clients, chasing quotes, updating our systems, even learning or making use of some technical skills!
The role is based in our Telford office (TF2 9FT) and is available now. Some element of home-working might be available but you should expect to be in the office Monday - Friday. We can be flexible on working hours, including offering a school-hours contract, if relevant.
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Would you like to work with us and our product Alpha Tracker? |
We're proud to be a Living Wage Employer (we've just had our anniversary) and we enjoy working with apprentices and seeing them develop their skills and become full-time employees - see how well Jamie and Zac did.
Other benefits of working with us at Start Software include a supportive team environment, profit-share bonuses, occasional foreign travel, a cycle-to-work scheme, a tech scheme (for buying discounted technology for home use) and a working environment based on trust and empowerment.
If you would like to explore this opportunity, click here and send us your details. We look forward to hearing from you.
Dan has presented Zac with his apprenticeship certificate - congrats from all of us
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That certificate was well earned! Zac (left) and Team Leader Dan (right) |
The latest Alpha Tracker Mobile update is now in beta test
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The latest version of Alpha Tracker Mobile in action |
- You can now duplicate water assets and outlets (and the data associated with them) with just one click
- You can mark outlets as being infrequently accessed
- The last date an outlet was monitored/cleaned/serviced is now shown when working on site (so that you can avoid working on outlets which don't need to be actioned)
- Attempting to log in with an invalid user ID or password, or an expired password, now displays a more helpful message
- If your sync is interrupted for any reason, you will not see duplicate assets and outlets when you re-sync
- Photos are now quicker to display
- A variety of minor bugs have been addressed.
Do you need more lab analysis capacity? HSL are offering sub-contracting services to other Alpha Tracker labs
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If you're looking for additional lab capacity, HSL is offering lab services to other Alpha Tracker asbestos consultancies.
HSL operate fully accredited and very experienced laboratories offering the full range of asbestos testing services including water absorption tests for cement/board confirmations. All of their work is certified to ISO 17025 and ISO9001:2000.
HSL's lab testing and analysis services
If you're interested in outsourcing to HSL, talk to Asbestos Lab Manager Lucy Croydon (click here to email).
If you'd like us to feature your consultancy on the Alpha Tracker news feed & blog, get in touch with Robin.
The latest Water Hygiene User Guide for Alpha Tracker is now available on our website
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Kim has updated the Alpha Tracker Water Hygiene User Guide and it is now available to read and download.
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You'll find the Water Hygiene User Guide with our other documentation |
The guide explains how to book jobs into Alpha Tracker, how to schedule them, site data capture (for Legionella Risk Assessments as well as monitoring/temperature work), report production and accessing the asset & outlet data afterwards.
Click here to view our Alpha Tracker manuals. Feel free to read online or download and print.