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Unlocking the Power of the Genome
Field Service Engineer
Location
Texas
Posted
111 days ago
Salary
$74.9K - $112.3K / year
Seniority
Mid Level
Job Description
Field Service Engineer
Illumina
• Provide daily on-site support performing installation, upgrade, diagnoses, troubleshooting, and repair of complex equipment and systems. • Provides feedback to Manager and identifies opportunities to promote efficiency in day to day operations. • Deliver technical support to onsite sites utilizing experience performing installations, diagnoses, troubleshooting, service, and repair of complex Illumina instrumentation and systems. • Build and maintain strong relationships across in-district Service and Support teams. • Proficient at installation, repair and maintenance of Illumina platforms. • Troubleshoot a wide variety of complex customer reported problems. • Proactively monitor, schedule, and prioritize tasks to maximize instrument uptime and customer satisfaction. • Responsible for completing post repair/install validation runs as required on all platforms. • Manage all administrative tasks (SFDC case management) in a quality manner and within the established guidelines, making suggestions and changes when needed. • Independently manage account, build and help strengthen customer relationships. • Schedule and perform equipment upgrades and new installations. • Utilize and maintain up to date Service and training manuals, Field Service Bulletins, SOPs and facilitate remote connectivity to customer instrumentation. • Responsible for escalating repairs as needed and primary point of contact for escalation related activities. • Running reports on instrument failures and using data to proactively service instruments in order to avoid costly downtime. • Lead regular meetings with site personal reporting out metrics related to instrument performance, downtime etc. • Partner with NSST and product support for any ongoing sustaining engineering activities (product performance monitoring or product improvement efforts). • Responsible for communicating and overseeing any rotational support locally or from other regions. • Resource to assist other SSE’s in troubleshooting complex issues. • Provide additional onsite training/support to other SSE’s to further develop their skill sets. • Identify opportunities for gaining site efficiencies which will promote a decrease in mean time between repair and increase instrument uptime. • Ensure proper inventory levels of service parts and make changes as needed.
Job Requirements
- Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 2 years of related experience; or an advanced degree without experience; or equivalent work experience.
- 2-6 years relevant experience or direct experience servicing our products
- Must be highly motivated and have problem-solving ability
- Ability to operate as an independent contributor and as a cooperative member of a team
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Biotechnology/Biomedical industry knowledge, or applicable military experience
- Familiarity with field optical alignments, robotics, electrical/electronics, and mechanical and fluidics systems
- Technical knowledge of computer hardware, Windows OS, and networking
- Planning, scheduling, and prioritization skills
Benefits
- access to genomics sequencing
- family planning
- health/dental/vision
- retirement benefits
- paid time off
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