Field Service Engineer; Charlotte, NC

Field Service Engineer (Charlotte, NC) – Raleigh, North Carolina | Columbia, South Carolina | Remote

Raleigh, North Carolina | Columbia, South Carolina | Remote

Job : REQ-056489

• Perform installations, maintenance, validations, and repairs while ensuring compliance with Perkin Elmer’s service standards and key performance indicators.
• Engage with customers to understand their analytical workflows and tailor service offerings, including training, support, and upgrades.
• Enhance account profitability through efficient service execution and by identifying revenue opportunities such as billable work, consumables, and service leads.
• Maintain assigned assets, including tools, test equipment (MTE), telecommunication equipment, and service parts inventory.
• Enhance Perkin Elmer’s product quality by proactively reporting improvement opportunities via the quality notification process.
• Attend higher level certification through participation in company sponsored training and development offerings.
• Complete all administrative tasks, including but not limited to time reporting and assigned training.
• Maintain training and compliance in areas of health and safety, security, environmental and operational aspects of daily activities in the working environment.

Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job at any time.

• Outstanding interpersonal, written, and verbal skills, demonstrating the ability to communicate information clearly and accurately.
• Technical critical thinking skills and attention to detail.
• Outstanding customer service skills complemented by an ability to listen to and interpret client requests.
• Aptitude for technical and practical matters.
• MS Office skills:
  Outlook, PowerPoint, Word.
• Excellent team player with a customer satisfaction focus.
• Ability to follow and create written and verbal directions, read and understand technical bulletins and service manuals, work under time constraints, maintain alertness and concentration, and work safely with potential hazards.

• BA Bachelor Degree in Applied Science, Biology, Chemistry, Electronics, Mathematics, Engineering, or related discipline including military experience plus 3 years direct experience with repair of laboratory equipment OR
• Associate Degree in Applied Science, Biology, Chemistry, Electronics, Mathematics, Engineering, or related discipline including military experience plus 5 years direct experience with repair of laboratory equipment OR
• High School Diploma plus 7+ years direct experience with repair of laboratory equipment

• Detailed knowledge of analytical equipment, laboratory environment, and/or instrument control software
• Vendor issued certification on relevant laboratory equipment
• Knowledge of laboratory safety practices as defined by the Company and/or the customer’s site safety code
• Ability to travel by air, vehicle and/or other means of transportation as business requires. Travel will vary depending on territory requirements and/or customer base typically up to 50% of the time. (Car, laptop, and phone are company provided).
• Valid driver’s license and safe motor vehicle operation.

• Must be able to work in a laboratory, controlled environments requiring personal protective equipment (e.g., lab coat, safety glasses, etc.) in laboratory.
• Job pace may be fast and job completion demands may be high.
• Must be able to remain in a stationary position more than 25% of the time.
• The person needs to occasionally move between labs, corridors, adjoining rooms, and buildings onsite. Frequently operate on instruments, objects, tools or controls, which will require regularly bending, squatting, stretching and reaching in order to perform in a service function.
• Occasionally move or lift up to 25 pounds (potential for occasional lifting of up to 50 pounds).
• Specific vision abilities required by this position include close distance, color, peripheral, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus to perform essential service functions.
• Occasionally operates a computer and other office machinery, such as a…