PerkinElmer is a company specializing in scientific instruments and services, and they are seeking a Field Service Engineer to provide high-quality maintenance and support for their instrumentation. The role involves installing, maintaining, and repairing equipment at customer sites, while also ensuring customer satisfaction and contributing to account profitability.
Responsibilities:
- Install, maintain, validate and repair PerkinElmer and/or multivendor instrumentation at customer site with best-in-class service
- Provide scheduled and unscheduled corrective maintenance for customers including warranty services within a prescribed time frame and established maintenance protocols
- Communicate service offerings including training, support, software, laboratory services products and field upgrades
- Partner with our customers to understand their analytical workflows and applications
- Support the local instrument sales representative(s) to help secure new instrument orders
- Provide service that helps to drive the sale of new service agreements, service agreement upgrades and instrument add-ons to existing service contracts
- Develop an understanding of other functional groups activities and responsibilities
- Demonstrate knowledge of and adherence to the installation, warranty, and service agreement documentation standards
- Contribute to account profitability through efficient execution and service delivery
- Perform timely uploads and downloads of required service data to ensure the integrity of service system(s)
- Maintain assigned assets including: Company vehicle, tools, test equipment (MTE), telecommunication equipment, assigned service parts inventory, etc
- Proactively develop technical and soft skills to maintain and enhance PerkinElmer’s value proposition to the customer
- Enhance PerkinElmer’s product quality by proactively reporting improvement opportunities via the quality notification process
- Seek higher level certification through participation in company sponsored training & development offerings
- Complete all administrative tasks on time
- Work safely with potential electrical, chemical, radiologic, and biologic hazards using universal precautions
- Maintain training and compliance in areas of health and safety, security, environmental and operational aspects of daily activities in the working environment
Requirements:
- Associate degree in Applied Science, Biology, Chemistry, Electronics, Mathematics, Engineering, or related military experience with 2+ years of experience in equipment maintenance/repair OR
- High School Diploma or equivalent with 5+ years of experience in equipment maintenance/repair
- Remote role covering the NM and TX territory for Field Service at various customer sites. Must be willing to travel 70% or more as required with significant overnights
- Strong interpersonal skills; strong team player with customer satisfaction focus
- Ability to follow written and verbal directions
- Read and understand technical bulletins and service manuals
- Work under time constraints
- Ability to operate personal computer to enter data and generate reports
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with peers, managers, customers, and other technical support professionals
- Experience using Microsoft 365
- 2+ years of laboratory and/or field service experience working with analytical equipment
- Vendor-issued certification on relevant laboratory equipment
- General knowledge of laboratory safety practices