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Field Service Engineer

Stevenage
5 days ago
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Azenta Life Sciences are a market leader in automated bio sample management solutions and genomic services across areas such as drug development, clinical and advanced cell therapies for the industry's top pharmaceutical, biotech, academic and healthcare institutions globally.

Azenta are currently seeking a Field Service Engineer to join the team, covering the Herefordshire and Cambridgeshire region. In this role, you will play a key part in delivering exceptional technical support and service for our state-of-the-art systems at client sites.

How You’ll Add Value…

The Field Service Engineer performs basic/routine customer support activities involving the installation, modification, repair and preventive maintenance of Azenta's equipment and systems generally at customer sites, to ensure proper working order.

Candidate may be assigned to support a specific customer site, region, or product, depending upon business needs.

What You'll Do...



Install, modify, repair, conduct preventive diagnosis, and perform maintenance on the software and hardware of the equipment and systems while adhering to Brooks’ policies, procedures and work direction of supervisor or shift/site lead.

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Interface with customers to ensure customer satisfaction with equipment and service levels.

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Maintain a safe and clean working environment

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Attain Equipment Service and Operation Certification on equipment and systems as defined.

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Submit reports, such as Service and Status Reports, on all support activities as defined and required.

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Productively react to changing priorities such as Tool or Line down and escalations and support organizational and administrative duties.

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Works under supervision following established policies and procedures to ensure company and customer quality standards are met.

What You'll Bring...

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Minimum HNC/HND or equivalent in a relevant discipline.

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Work experience or, military technical training is required.

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Strong Electrical & Mechanical background.

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Possess excellent communication skills with the ability to read, write and speak with clarity in the English language and interface effectively with customers and peers.

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Requires excellent systematic troubleshooting skills utilizing a structured and comprehensive process to determine the root cause of an outage, with the ability to handle problems independently and implement corrective action.

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Displays commitment to resolve problems and make independent decisions based upon the priority of the problem in relation to business needs.

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Discretion and independent judgment are required resolving customer issues.

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Position is on-site at a customer, but must be available and willing to travel, domestically and internationally as needed, and be available for specific emergency on-call work.

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Must have a valid driver’s license, good driving record, reliable mode of transportation, qualified to obtain a credit card for expenses and able to obtain a valid passport for the term of employment.

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Must be qualified to meet the requirements of background screening by a third-party agency.

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Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds, climb ladders, scaffoldings, and use Personal Protective Equipment.

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Work performed generally will be to support global needs. International travel may be required at times.

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Work schedule is to align with customer needs.

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On rare occasions, individuals may be asked to be on-call, or work on holidays, or weekends.

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Work in cold environments

Ideally you live in the area of Hertfordshire (around Stevenage area) or South Cambridgeshire.

We are building a high-performance organization with a collaborative team culture and passion for customer focus and are looking for exceptionally talented individuals with an appreciation for life sciences and a customer service mentality to join our field service team. If this sounds like you, we’d like to hear from you! We offer an exceptional compensation and benefits package

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