Service Desk Engineer

Vanderlande Industries GmbH; Marietta, Northern (GA, KY); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanderlande North America is seeking a Service Desk Engineer to provide first-line support for North American customers, handling incidents, changes, and service requests. You will coordinate with second-line engineering teams, verify contract coverage, and maintain DOS Maximo tickets to ensure timely restoration of services.

The role requires 1+ year of service or customer support experience, ability to communicate with stakeholders at all levels, and a willingness to work rotating shifts to

Qualifications

• Experience in material handling systems or industrial controls (desirable)
• Experience managing and communicating customer issues via a ticketing system
• Good attention to detail with the ability to summarize information accurately
• Knowledge of ITSM processes
• Understanding/knowledge of complex HLC/LLC systems (desirable)
• Experience in ITIL or equivalent environment
• Strong team mentality and responsibility for project completion
• Self-motivated with problem solving under stress

Responsibilities

• Handle incidents raised at customer sites and provide updates as per contract
• Analyze and report incident status and closure summaries
• Use DOS Maximo to communicate updates to customers
• Provide basic support for HLC and LLC systems
• Manage incidents and escalate timelines as needed
• Serve as escalation contact for major incidents and coordinate calls
• Maintain incident tickets and assist second line teams
• Support IT and Controls systems during and after incidents
• Deliver post-incident summaries for major events
• Prepare weekly/monthly KPI and change reports for customer sites
• Collaborate with customers, site teams, subcontractors and VI services teams
• Learn new skills and stay current with technology to aid incident analysis
• Offer feedback for process improvement and maintain NASC knowledge base

Skills

Customer support

Incident management

ITIL

Communication

Problem solving

Ticketing system

Teamwork

Shift work

Industrial controls knowledge

Tools

Maximo

Job description

As a subsidiary of Toyota Industries (TICO), Vanderlande North America is enjoying rapid growth and extraordinary market demand. Vanderlande is a global market leader in material handling system manufacturing, design, installation, and service. Vanderlande systems employ the latest in robotic, mechanical, and software technology. Vanderlande’s customers are household names in e-commerce, package delivery, and air transportation.

We are looking for a Service Desk Engineer to help support our North American customers. Previous experience supporting customers with low-level controls (PLC), SCADA, and high-level controls (IT HLC) is a plus.

Position Summary:

The Service Desk Engineering team is the first line of support and central point of contact between our customers and the service organization. As part of this team, you will handle call intake and registration for Incidents, Problems, Changes, and Service Requests. This includes verification of contract coverage and warranty. Apart from troubleshooting, analyzing and prioritization of issues, the Service Desk Engineer also coordinates with second line engineering teams to coordinate, communicate and resolve customer issues. As a Service Desk Engineer you will be working within the North American Support Center (NASC) team alongside other Support Engineers based in our Atlanta office.

The Service Desk Engineer is responsible for quick response to system faults and customer requests with the aim of assisting in the restoration of service within contracted service level agreements. The candidate must be able to demonstrate 1+ years’ experience working in a service/customer support role with a focus on field service care.

Essential Functions (Job Duties and Responsibilities):

• Support of incidents raised at Customer sites
• Analysis & reporting of incident and summary upon closure
• Communication of updates within our ticketing system (DOS Maximo) to Customers, at the beginning, during and end of the incident, as per agreed frequency in the contract
• Provide basic support of HLC and LLC systems
• Incident Management – Monitoring of incident and ensuring escalated at appropriate time
• Act as point of contact for escalation of major incidents, set up calls and contact escalation manager as and when required
• Maintain incident tickets information updated in DOS Maximo
• Support for 2nd line teams when escalation is required
• Assist in Support and analysis of IT and Controls systems, during and after incident
• Deliver post Incident summary for major incidents to customer
• Review and update outstanding tickets daily
• Prepare weekly and monthly reports; KPI’s, change requests and problem reports for customer sites
• Identify and provide 2nd Line support with as much information as is practical to facilitate fault finding of issue
• Work closely with customers, site team, subcontractors and suppliers
• Communicate closely with other groups within VI service and project team (engineering, site management, supply chain, sales/proposal department and services)
• Learn new skills and stay current on latest technology to further assist 2nd line teams in incidents and analysis
• Provide feedback on current processes for Continuous Improvement
• Maintain NASC knowledge base of customer site systems and processes

Required Education and Experience:

• Experience in material handling systems or industrial controls systems (desirable)
• Experience managing & communicating customer issues via a ticketing system
• Good attention to detail with the ability to summarize information accurately
• Good knowledge of ITSM processes
• Understanding/Knowledge/experience with complex HLC Systems (desirable)
• An understanding of IT technologies hosting applications, databases, application servers, web servers, client installations (desirable)
• Experience working in an ITIL or equivalent environment
• Strong team mentality and acceptance of responsibility for project completion
• Self-motivated with proven ability in problem solving skills under stressful conditions
• Excellent administrative skills:

• Must be able to work unsupervised and work to tight deadlines on mission critical systems
• Eager to learn and understand complex systems in depth
• Develop a good understanding and overview on system, software and system behavior.
• Excellent analytical skills able to think “out-of-the-box” to resolve issues quickly
• Team player, adaptable and willing to broaden skills outside core skillset, and to develop and mentor other team members.
• A clear communicator, able to communicate at all levels, able to be clear and concise to stakeholders and management at all levels
• Have a strong customer focus
• Good attention to detail and ability to work to a high standardGood planning and scheduling skills.
• Able and willing to work shifts.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written skills

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:

This is a full-time position, working within a support center environment that has rotational shifts to cover support 24 x 7.

Travel:

Occasional travel to customer sites in North America is required. Some international travel will be required for training purposes.

Supervisory Responsibility:

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Work Environment and Physical Demands:

Primarily this role is office based within a climate-controlled environment. The role may require site visits, and candidates should be able to access unhindered these environments, in order to perform essential functions of this job.

Vanderlande is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regards to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.