About the role
Our team of service personnel provide front-line technical support to LGC’s repertoire of laboratory instrumentation and consumables. What we do enables the scientific discovery of information that allows our customers to better feed the world, improve food safety, permit greater healthcare research and pharmaceutical discovery, and improve animal health…ultimately providing science for a safer world!
With a focus on always putting customers first, our Field Service Engineers work directly with an internal and external customer base to resolve technical equipment and software problems remotely and onsite at customer locations. They provide equipment and software training, log and forward instrument issues, and engineering design requests to the Field Service Advisor team. Operational attributes for this role include shadowing and assisting senior level Service Engineers during installations, individual performance of repairs, and individual performance of preventative maintenance on laboratory equipment at customer facilities to support other global field service teams. Field Service Engineer’s can pair with others to perform tasks as designated to complete customer requests in field, such as large instrument volume preventative maintenance visits.
This role collaborates closely with the Field Service Manager and other service team members to balance resources and to meet the needs of the customer and organization.
This position is an integral part of a team that provides on-call emergency service support and troubleshooting assistance 24/7 and up to 75% travel, domestic and international.
Key Responsibilities:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to capably perform each of the following essential functions:
Service Delivery: Delivers industry leading service through instrument installations, training, preventative maintenance, repairs, operational assistance, and trade shows to customers and operators. Completes individual performance with training customers onsite which includes, conducting preventative maintenance, and instrument repairs. The Field Service Engineer II will be expected to provide service support independent of direct oversight. They will develop strong relationships through professionalism, understanding, tact, fairness, and technical knowledge in all customer interactions, providing system start-up, integration support, and production optimization to meet needs for the customer.
Operations: Field service efforts include on-site support for: all technical issues that could not be resolved remotely, start-up, commissioning and training, test and repair, and preventative maintenance of equipment.
Training: Participates and at times performs delivery of on-site operator and technical training to customers. This position will gain further knowledge of the LGC product line through trainings, staff meetings, and keep up to date on new products, markets, customers, and competitors. They will support new processes and instrument implementation in field and collaborate with sales on potential new opportunities with our customer base.
Problem Solving: Takes lead and also collaborates when needed with other FSE’s and Technical Advisor team to resolve customer issues, improve processes, define corrective actions, and remain responsible for completion of service cases to meet customer satisfaction. May be responsible to oversee and support special projects as assigned and delegate tasks to others when appropriate.
Quality Assurance: Continuously seek and support new approaches, practices, and processes to improve the efficiency, training services offered, and ability to care for our customers. This position is responsible to effectively communicate instrument status, issues, and customer complaints and needs to appropriate managers and Technical Advisor Team.
Business Growth: This position contributes to achieve specific service-related key performance indicators as defined for revenues, profit, and service order volumes in accordance with our shared corporate values to allow service to permeate through everything we do. Important KPI’s FSE’s will be held accountable to, Fixed Right First Time (FRFT), Customer satisfaction index score, Turnaround Time (TAT) to site visit, Mean time to Repair (MTTR), days onsite at customer to complete work.
Other Duties as Assigned: Responds with flexibility and collaboration to the needs of the business – both internally and externally – by addressing important corporate initiatives when requested by management.