Abbott Laboratories - Newark, DE
posted about 1 month ago
Full-time - Entry Level
Remote - Newark, DE
10,001+ employees
Miscellaneous Manufacturing
About the position
The Field Service Engineer Automation is the primary automation account contact covering both technical support and customer experience. The position provides on-going proactive product support for assigned accounts. The customer experience aspect of this role will focus on increasing customer loyalty; securing retention; and driving value expansion at assigned accounts.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical Level I and Level II phone and on-site support to proactively maintain product performance or resolve customer complaints for hardware; software; and reagent issues.
- Perform proactive service support activities to maintain system performance. Apply standard troubleshooting tools or concepts to identify the real issue and its root cause.
- Determine level of urgency of service support requests; develop recommendations and implement solutions that reflect customer and Abbott business need.
- Record accurate and timely documentation of customer complaints and the action taken to resolve the concern.
- Plan and prioritize customer visits and activities to do in each account.
- Prepare; schedule; and execute training events with customers to improve customer self-sufficiency by developing the customer's ability to troubleshoot/repair analyzers and increase knowledge of component replacement and assays.
- Coordinate order, delivery, and billing of products and/or services in assigned accounts. Monitor inventory and replenish accordingly.
- Responsible for Service Contract Sales at assigned accounts.
- Partner with Enterprise Account Manager and/or Sales Executive to develop account-specific lab strategy and execution throughout commercial cycle and participate in customer business reviews.
- Understand competitive landscape of assigned accounts or territory and leverage it to maximize business opportunities. Develop/preserve strong relationships to gain meaningful insights that will allow for value expansion opportunities. Responsible for achieving revenue generation goals in assigned accounts.
Requirements
- Associate degree or equivalent experience.
- 2 years of relevant experience with instrumentation utilized in a laboratory environment.
- 2 years of experience interfacing with customers.
Nice-to-haves
- Electrical or Bio Medical engineer
- Medical Technician
Benefits
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
- An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution.
- Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor's degree.
- A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
- A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
