Field Engineer

Field Engineer - Northampton / London

As a Field Engineer, you will be responsible for assisting in Field Team Leader in overall operation & support for our customers. This will be including support 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
• Create and maintain strong relationships with other business units
• Ensure that customer and Bechtle office solutions 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
• Assist with the planning of internal and customer project work
• 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
• Assist in the training and development of service helpdesk staff and field engineers
• Work under own initiatives as part of the service team to ensure high quality support to clients
• Undertake tasks identified by service helpdesk, service team leader or technical manager
• Undertake any other duties as required, which are deemed necessary to satisfy the needs of the Bechtle
• Ensure incident information is recorded accurately and in a timely manner
• Ensure job sheets are accurate and completed daily
• Keep appraised of new and emerging technologies
• Seek and highlight additional opportunities whilst reviewing customers infrastructures
• Suggest improvements for the on-going development of the service department

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 fun are the key ingredients
• Ability to work as part of a team and display teamwork.
• Can work on own intuitive
• 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)
• Salary: Dependant on experience
• Northampton / London based
• Culture – Social events, Supportive, Fun, Hard working
• Perks – Incentives (holidays, vouchers, lunches, spot prizes)
• Top of the range technology in office and for home working (laptops, screens, latest iPhone, etc)
• Subsidised health care/medical benefits
• Annual Leave – 25-30* days plus B.H’s + 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, PC’s 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/backend 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, UPS’s, printers etc
• Industry recognised accreditations such as MCP, MCSA, MCSE, CCA, CCNA are highly desirable

Reports to: Field Team Leader

Jenny Careless | Human Resources | jenny.careless@bechtle.com | +44 (0) 1249 467935