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Field Service Engineer – Exciter/LCI
Location
United States
Posted
17 days ago
Salary
$78.8K - $131.2K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Field Service Engineer – Exciter/LCI
Switzerland Global Enterprise
• Provide technical direction and guidance to craft labor in support of a power equipment outage • Developing in-depth knowledge of a technical discipline • Uses prior experience and acquired technical expertise to execute policy/strategy • In-depth understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work • In-depth understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area • Uses some level of judgment and has ability to propose different solutions outside of set parameters but with guidance • Uses prior experience and on-the-job training to solve straightforward tasks • Has access to technical skills and analytic thinking required to solve problems • May use multiple internal sources outside of own team to arrive at decisions • Provides informal guidance to new team members
Job Requirements
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 80% of the time
- Industrial automation, Electrical, or electronic engineering degree from an accredited university or college (or a High School Diploma / GED and a minimum of 4 years of industry experience)
- 4 years of field engineering experience in power generation, industrial plant automation, distributed), PLC (programmable logic controller) or similar industry sectors
- Ability to troubleshoot control and instrumentation systems at all levels, from field devices to control system, and networking
- Must be able to generate immediate credibility with customers, suppliers, GE project management / engineering communities
- Strong customer focus, interpersonal and computer skills
- Ability to multi-task in a dynamic, geographically dispersed team environment is required
- Effective written and oral communication skills with excellent spoken and written English skills
- Customer-focused skills, demonstrated by experience in field services, customer services or project management, are essential
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
- access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource
- access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services
- GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions
- tuition assistance
- adoption assistance
- paid parental leave
- disability benefits
- life insurance
- 12 paid holidays
- permissive time off
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