Field Service Engineer (Chromatography)

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FIELD SERVICE ENGINEER (CHROMATOGRAPHY) - ROMANDIE

Job Description

• Division: CMD; Unity Lab Services, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, provides critical on-site instrument services at customer locations.

• Our colleagues are passionate about improving customer experience and service operations efficiency.

• This is an excellent opportunity to start your career in our growing Field Service team as a Field Service Engineer make a difference - you will receive comprehensive training from our colleagues to get you started with your development within Thermo Fisher Scientific.

• Focus of the role is Installation, Preventive Maintenance, Instrument Qualification and Troubleshooting of Chromatographic (HPLC /IC) Devices within Switzerland, with a Focus on Romandie.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with colleagues in our customer care center to efficiently schedule your service visits to meet and exceed customer expectations.

• Install our products from our diverse Chromatography portfolio, demonstrate instrument specification and instruct customers on use (Familiarization)

• Perform preventive maintenance and qualifications on customer instruments and help to improve instrument uptime and availability.

• Detailed preparation and documentation of maintenance and qualification activities to meet regulatory requirements.

• Analyze instrument failures.

• Contribute to the overall Service Targets with respect to Bookings, Revenues, Service Profit and Overhead Cost while following all internal rules, processes and practices (as they are described).

• Perform all Service Activities in line with internal rules and customer regulations.

• Always ensure the highest professional relationship with our customer base to achieve customer loyalty and raise issues if necessary, to solve critical tasks in the fastest way possible.

• Follow our ethical business conduct guidance.

• Manage the company's assets provided, such as Car Stock/Inventory of Parts, Computer, Telephone, general Tools, Software, Company Car, Manuals etc.

• Optimize the own work schedule by coordinating with all the vital partners for service planning/scheduling (Dispatching function, Team Leader, others).

Qualifications:

• Curiosity about analytical instruments, systems, applications, new products and technologies.

• Technical education or chemical background.

• Proficient in French and good knowledge of English language.

• Driving license.

• Excellent inter-personal, self-motivational and negotiating skills.

• Passion to travel mainly within Switzerland. For training or special calls, international traveling including all EMEA Territory and the US is required.

• 2-3 years’ experience servicing of our Chromatography products or as a user.

• Good hardware and software skills especially of Windows operating systems and applications as well as Microsoft Office package.

• Strong problem solving skills.

• Proven organizational skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks with different priorities.

• Knowledge in German is an advantage.

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