Field Service Technician - Variable Frequency Drives

Siemens Mobility; Montreal; On-site; CAD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Siemens Mobility is seeking a Field Service Technician to enhance customer service for low voltage drive applications in the Greater Montreal area. This position offers mentorship, travel opportunities, and a vehicle provided by the company. Candidates should have a background in electrical engineering, hands-on experience with drive systems, and proficiency in both French and English.

Benefits

Vehicle provided by Siemens

Access to benefits on Day 1

Qualifications

• 3 years relevant experience with AC & DC VFD low voltage drive applications.
• Experience in power installation 600V, 480V, AC and/or DC.
• Experience with repairs on VFD components.

Responsibilities

• Service and maintain low voltage drive applications.
• Provide technical support and customer service.
• Work independently and as part of a team.

Skills

Fault finding

Customer service

Technical support

Education

DEC or bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering

Job description

Why you’ll love working for Siemens!

• Freedom and a healthy work- life balance– Embrace our flexible work environment with flex hours, telecommuting and digital workspaces.
• Solve the world’s most significant problems – Be part of exciting and innovative projects.
• Engaging, challenging, and fast evolving, cutting edge technological environment.
• Opportunities to advance your career and mentorship programs on a local and global scale.
• Competitive total rewards package.
• Profit sharing available.
• Rewarding vacation entitlement with the opportunity to buy and sell your vacation depending on your lifestyle.
• Contribute to our social responsibility initiatives focused on access to education, access to technology and sustaining communities and make a positive impact on the community.
• Participate in our celebrations, social events and offsite business events.
• Opportunities to contribute your innovative ideas and get paid for them!
• Employee perks and discounts.
• Diversity and inclusivity focused.

Siemens is proud to be an eight-time award winner of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers 2025 and Canada’s Top Employers for Young People 2025.

What will you do?

We are looking for a Field Service Technician to join our Customer Service team within Digital Industries and help us re-imagine the world by finding solutions and making the world a smarter place for tomorrow. Siemens Digital Industries offers a comprehensive portfolio of seamlessly integrated hardware, software and technology-based services to support manufacturing companies worldwide in enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of their production processes and in reducing the time to market of their products.

What sets this role apart?

• Your customers will include top compagnies in the region in the pharmaceutical, aerospace & defense industries
• Established local team of experienced technicians & access to global expertise
• Collaboration with highly trained technical teams and project managers.
• Mentorship opportunities
• Vehicle provided and paid by siemens
• Opportunities to travel across the country – ideal for someone who would like to see more of Canada
• Access to our benefits on Day 1

Your day to day:

• Strong focus on the quality of customer service to all customers
• Responsible for servicing, maintaining, commissioning, installing, start-up and providing technical support for the range of low voltage drive applications (AC and DC).
• Ability to work alone using your own initiative or working closely with team members. Goal is to provide customers with the highest levels of service possible
• Understand the needs of our customers and markets, speak the customer's language developing credibility, loyalty, trust and commitment.
• Continuously seek to add value to the services provided and achieve first time fixes, leading to reduced breakdown times, lower costs to customer, reduction in invoice queries, thus gaining customer satisfaction and retention whilst helping to achieve market leadership.
• Have a commercial awareness and an ability to recognize, promote and pursue new opportunities for sales, contracts, retrofits.
• Ensure that the quality of service provided for each customer meets or exceeds their expectations.

Territory: Greater Montreal metropolitan area and Eastern Ontario

What will you need to succeed?

• DEC or bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or related field
• 3 years relevant experience of fault finding, commissioning and maintenance of AC & DC VFD (Low Voltage) drive applications within an industrial environment.
• Experience on power installation 600V, 480V, AC and / or DC
• Few years experience with repairs on VFD such as transistor / IGBT/GTO, Thyristors / SCR, Diode bridge, driver board / firing boars, Control unit / logic board, power module / power block, capacitors
• Commissioning and maintenance on Motion Control Drive range of products.
• Experience on Siemens Drives equipment (considered as an asset)
• Basic knowledge on Siemens TiA portal, Step 7 programming platform (considered as an asset)
• Strong computer skills using the entire Microsoft Office suite
• Very good knowledge of French and English both written and spoken, to interact with customer in Ontario & colleagues across Canada.
• Must hold a valid driver’s license (vehicle will be provided)
• Must be able to travel within Canada occasionally (approximately 10-15%)
• Ability to occasionally work outside normal business hours.

About us.

We share our ideas and champion the people behind them.Siemens Canada is a technology company focused on industry, infrastructure. From more resource-efficient factories, resilient supply chains, and smarter buildings and grids, to cleaner and more comfortable transportation as well as advanced healthcare, the company creates technology with purpose, adding real value for customers since 1912. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers its customers to transform their industries and markets, to transform the everyday for billions of people. As of September 30, 2023, the company has approximately 4,200 employees from coast-to-coast and 33 office and production facilities across Canada.Siemens Canada has a revenue of ~ CAD $2Billion.

To learn more about Siemens Canada, visit our website atwww.siemens.ca

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