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Luke Duggan is a thoughtful and engaging communicator with operations director experience in the hospitality and property management industries.
An office assistant is an ideal employee to keep the office equipment running properly and troubleshoot any problems. If the office assistant cannot get the machine running, they will know who to contact.

Luke Duggan is a thoughtful and engaging communicator with operations director experience in the hospitality and property management industries.
If you do not have experience maintaining office equipment, directly describe how you make sure the equipment is maintained. Mention that you are the go-to person when equipment is not working properly and can troubleshoot it before calling the account manager.

Luke Duggan is a thoughtful and engaging communicator with operations director experience in the hospitality and property management industries.
"In addition to the coffee machine, I have the copy machine on a quarterly maintenance schedule. Last year, the machine was replaced, and I was trained to understand the functionality of the new machine. I also order the toner and schedule quarterly maintenance on the machine."

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