Field Engineer

Field Engineer

As a Field Engineer, you will be responsible for assisting the Field Team Leader in overall operation & support for our customers. This will include supporting our customers with requests and incidents remotely and on site. Additionally, you will be a point of contact for the main Service Desk Team supporting our workshop, 1st line, 2nd line & 3rd line teams during day-to-day operation.

Job Role Responsibilities

• Provide 1st - 3rd line technical support for all customers
• Ensure customer incidents are resolved as quickly as possible (on and off-site)
• Take responsibility and exceed department Service Level Agreements
• Work closely with 1st and 2nd line technical support and other field engineers to ensure a high level of communications is maintained
• Provide technical guidance to the helpdesk team and field engineers
• Ensure that customer and Bechtle equipment/goods are installed to appropriate standards and industry best practice
• Provide occasional support of managed services operations, including involvement of weekend tasks
• Provide assistance to service team for technical design, implementation and support of customer incidents and projects
• Undertake customer audits and create appropriate documentation
• Create and maintain suitable customer infrastructure / service documentation
• Accountable for the change control process and the upkeep of digital records
• Ensure that each service incident or installation is tested as per the client’s sign off process and that this information is stored correctly
• Work under own initiative as part of the service team to ensure high quality support to clients
• Ensure incident information is recorded accurately and in a timely manner
• Ensure job sheets are accurate and completed daily
• Seek and highlight additional opportunities whilst reviewing customers infrastructures

Job Requirements

• Self-motivated with a positive attitude; excellent communication and organisational skills and a team-oriented mindset
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment where hard work and collaboration are valued
• Ability to work as part of a team and display teamwork
• Can work on own initiative
• Good written skills on job reporting and documentation

What we offer

• Hybrid Working (3 days in / up to 2 days remote if required, after probation which is 3 months)
• Northampton based with a modern, up to date living space and ample parking
• Culture – Social events, Supportive, Fun, Hard working
• Subsidised health care/medical benefits; Annual Leave – 25-30 days plus Bank Holidays + optional 2 weeks unpaid. Increases with time spent
• Progression Plan – training & mentor programme

Experience

• Minimum 2 years experience in a role of supporting servers, networks, printers, PCs and applications. Ideally this would have been gained within a field role
• Proven experience of enterprise / mainstream technologies and applications primarily focused on Microsoft front/back-end products as well as anti-virus and backup platforms and operations
• Experience with other enterprise / mainstream technologies and applications such as Citrix, VMware and Cisco are desirable
• Relevant experience of managing, maintaining and supporting peripheral equipment including routers, switches, hubs, UPSs, printers etc
• Industry recognised accreditations such as MCP, MCSA, MCSE, CCA, CCNA are highly desirable