Field Service Technician

Vaisala; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Field Service Technician to join their MetOcean Team in Aberdeen. This role is crucial for maintaining offshore operations, ensuring the safety of helicopter landings and vessel movements. You'll work with cutting-edge weather monitoring systems and be part of a skilled team dedicated to climate action. If you have a strong background in electronics and a passion for working in challenging environments, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a company committed to making a difference for the planet while advancing your career in a dynamic and supportive atmosphere.

Qualifications

• Experience with metocean sensors or similar instrumentation.
• Hands-on experience in servicing and installing instrumentation.

Responsibilities

• Perform maintenance and troubleshooting of offshore meteorological systems.
• Install and configure weather monitoring systems in offshore environments.

Skills

Metocean sensors

Electronics understanding

Electrical systems knowledge

Software applications

Schematic engineering drawing interpretation

Health and safety awareness

Education

ONC/HNC in electronics

Relevant industry experience

Job description

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Field Service Technician

We are looking for a Field Service Technicianto join our MetOcean Team at Vaisala in Aberdeen, UK. Join us in a role where you play a vital part in keeping offshore operations safe, ensuring reliable weather data for those who depend on it.

Vaisala is a global leader in measurement instruments and intelligence helping industries, nations, people, and the planet to thrive. From predicting hurricanes to optimizing renewable energy production, our technology is used where it matters the most – from data centers, windfarms and laboratories to airports, the Arctic and even the surface of Mars. Vaisala is recognized in TIME Magazine's World's Best Companies in Sustainable Growth 2025 study. Our team of over 2,400 experts and 59 nationalities around the world is committed to taking every measure for the planet. Driven by our shared purpose, curiosity, and pioneering spirit, we stay ahead and make a difference. At Vaisala, you don't have to fit in to belong.

Take your skills where few can go. Work in offshore environments where your expertise ensures safe helicopter landings, vessel movements, and crane operations, keeping critical offshore operations running safely.

Work with cutting-edge weather monitoring systems. Work hands-on with advanced meteorological and oceanographic systems that provide the critical data offshore operations rely on.

We take every measure for the planet. Our technology and data play a vital role in understanding, mitigating, and adapting to climate change. We enable climate action from optimizing industrial processes to advancing the energy transition, predicting hurricanes and wildfires to monitoring road conditions.

What's your role?

You will be part of our MetOcean Team, a skilled group of professionals, formerly part of Nevis Technology and now integrated into Vaisala. Together with the team, you will have an excellent opportunity to work offshore, maintaining meteorological and oceanographical systems. You will also be maintaining and upgrading our Elements software, with the support of our software team. When not offshore, you will assist the onshore team in testing and shipping hardware, as required. In this role you will be working in close co-operation with all members of our small Aberdeen team, and you will report to the Project and Service Manager.

Your key responsibilities will include:

Performing maintenance, troubleshooting, surveying and commissioning of offshore meteorological and oceanographic systems to ensure compliance with CAP437 and other applicable local standards

Installing and configuring new weather monitoring systems in offshore environments

Ensuring all operations comply with ISO9001:2015 quality systems and Vaisala procedures

Whilst onshore, you will be testing, repairing, calibrating and shipping hardware

What will you bring?

Previous experience with metocean sensors or similar instrumentation would be advantageous

Hands-on experience in servicing, installing, or inspecting instrumentation in an industrial or offshore environment

Strong understanding of electronics, electrical systems, and software applications

Ability to read and interpret schematic engineering drawings

ONC/HNC qualifications in electronics, electrical, or instrumentation fields, or relevant industry experience

Willingness to travel offshore, primarily in the North Sea

Strong health and safety awareness and capability to work at heights

Offshore certifications such as MIST, BOSIET, CompEX, and Working at Heights are considered a plus

For additional informationplease contact Kathleen Dawes, Project and Service Manager by email [e-mail]. Please note that applications sent via email cannot be processed due to privacy reasons.

Ready to take every measure for the planet? Apply at the latest on May 29, 2025 via the application form.