National Service Technician

Belimed Life Science; Charleston (SC); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Belimed Life Science is seeking a National Service Technician to install, repair and perform preventive maintenance on Belimed equipment, at customer sites across the United States. You will work with project management, local service teams and leadership to ensure installations meet specifications and maintenance is scheduled on time.

The role requires an associate degree or equivalent, 3–5 years of technical support or customer service, and experience with blueprints, CAD drawings, PLC

Qualifications

• Associate degree or equivalent related work experience.
• 3 - 5 years Technical Support experience or Customer Service experience.
• Experience interpreting and modifying blueprints, technical literature/drawings and CAD drawings.
• Capital equipment installation experience preferred.
• Experience troubleshooting steam, water and pneumatic process control and PLC systems.
• Experience in Biotech / GMP field is preferred.
• Experience using power/air tools; OSHA 30 Certification in Construction Safety is preferred.
• Demonstrated proficiency in technical and customer-facing situations.
• Ability to interact with both non-technical customers and technical support staff.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Must be fluent in standard business software programs.

Responsibilities

• Perform unit installations, repairs and preventive maintenance.
• Provide progress reports and elevate issues to the customer and stakeholders.
• Ensure customer satisfaction with installations and maintenance.
• Attend construction meetings to discuss utilities/space requirements.
• Install Belimed products, including un-crating, setting, leveling and testing.
• Maintain records in SAP/FSM and close out work orders.
• Follow safety protocols and PPE requirements.
• Provide on-site engineering in-service to customer teams.
• Maintain professional appearance and behavior at customer sites.
• Travel as needed and support on-call emergencies.

Skills

Technical support

Customer service

Written & verbal communications

Interpreting blueprints & CAD drawings

PLC systems troubleshooting

Team collaboration

Education

Associate degree or related work experience

Tools

CAD software

PLC systems

Power/air tools

Capital equipment installation tools

Job description

Belimed AG is a leading supplier of medical and surgical instrument sterilization, disinfection, cleaning products and services. The company, with its headquarters in Zug (Switzerland), has offices in 9 countries around the world and is represented in over 80 countries thanks to a strong network of distributors. We look back on more than 50 years of history, continually evolving our technology-driven portfolio of high quality products and services. As Engineers of confidence, we build trust and value for our customers, empowering them to advance medical care and protect the lives of patients and medical personnel.

We believe that winning teams are the key to our success. In Belimed you will work in an international, open-minded and hands-on team in a growing industry, committed to improving the health of our society.

How you will contribute

In this key role as National Service Technician completes equipment installations, repairs and preventive maintenance in accordance with Belimed specifications, working with customer contacts, project management, local service teams, and leadership. The Service Technician ensures our customers have a great experience with Belimed equipment by ensuring our systems are installed correctly and scheduled maintenance and repairs are performed on time with high quality. Additional responsibilities are providing first line technical support via phone aimed at resolving customer problems via troubleshooting, problem solving, specialized infection control knowledge and the ability to utilize all available resources and technologies to achieve total customer satisfaction. This position interacts with all levels of the organization including Field Service Technicians, Belimed Technical Product Managers, Engineering, Inventory Control, and Supply Chain.

Your Main Tasks Will Include

• Perform unit installations, repairs and preventive maintenance working independently with little or no supervision or direction.
• Provide progress reports, communicate and elevate issues to the customer, Customer Service Manager, Regional Director, Project Manager, and Account Executives when necessary.
• Ensure customer satisfaction with product installation, repairs and preventive maintenance.
• Provide guidance to customers regarding installations variances from specification. Attend construction meetings with customers or contractors, (when necessary) to discuss utilities/space requirements and establish installation timeframes. Ensure the installation site is clean and prepared for turnover, ensuring complete customer satisfaction is achieved.
• Perform installation of all Belimed products, including; un-crating, setting products in place, leveling, connecting utilities to the system, and testing / SAT. Complete all required service documentation associated with the installation activity, start up testing, and the Operational Qualification checklist.
• Maintain accurate records in SAP/FSM for all work performed. Close out installation and preventive maintenance documentation by completing total labor and travel hours applied to the work order. Complete installation and preventive maintenance documentation to appropriately document activities, including follow-up actions required.
• Participate in customer/contractor safety orientation training ensuring required PPE is used and implement preventative safety practices. Abide by all Belimed and customer health & safety protocols and procedures.
• Provide customers’ support team with initial engineering in-service.
• Ensure professionalism in both appearance and behavior is maintained at all times at customer site.
• Follow customer policies and requirements while performing all installation activities.
• Troubleshoots, analyzes, prioritizes, and resolves and/or facilitates resolutions for all problems dealing with in-use equipment.
• Receives and then assures that all reported quality issues are logged in the appropriate database and will communicate back to the field any relevant resolutions.
• Dispatches any non-resolved technical issues to field service for onsite resolution.
• Provides moderate to high level technical support to field service technicians and to customer technicians
• Maintains data integrity in all aspects of customer contact, beginning with the initial customer contact (case initiation) through service support (work order initiation/resolution), billing, quality collection (issues, solutions), and case closure.
• Demonstrates superior customer service skills by keeping a positive, caring, can-do attitude and by providing timely updates.
• Responds to daily customer phone contact to resolve technical/part identification/procurement problems.

What you will need

• Associate degree or equivalent related work experience
• 3 - 5 years Technical Support experience or Customer Service experience
• Experience in interpretation and modification of blueprints, technical literature/drawings and C.A.D. drawings required.
• Capital equipment installation experience preferred
• Experience troubleshooting steam, water and pneumatic process control and PLC systems
• Experience working in the Biotech / GMP field is preferred
• Experience using power/air tools, OSHA 30 Certification in Construction Safety is preferred, but not required
• Demonstrated proficiency in technical and customer-facing situations.
• Ability to successfully interact with both non-technical customers and technical support staff at customer organizations
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Must be fluent in standard business software programs.
• Must be independent, self-motivated and success-driven, yet willing to work within a team environment
• Must be able to prioritize own workload under pressure
• Excellent customer service skills
• Position requires lifting (up to 50 lbs.), bending, squatting, sitting, standing, and twisting
• Must travel to customer sites that include, but are not limited to: laboratories, pharmaceutical production facilities and animal research centers, often times in a construction environment
• Ability to work nights, weekends and holidays as business need dictates
• Ability to support rotating on-call schedule and provide emergency services, 24/7/365
• Must be able to travel overnight. Travel as much as 100% away from home.

Why join our team

Use your professional expertise and help us to protect the lives of patients and medical personnel. Join our ambitious team and share our strong customer orientation and sense of urgency. We offer you varied work in a hands-on, international environment with a strong, value-based company culture and a fair, performance-related compensation. Our culture of empowerment and accountability will give you easy access to key decision-makers and enable you to make a real impact.