Student Veterans of America Jobs

Welcome to SVA’s jobs portal, your one-stop shop for finding the most up to date source of employment opportunities. We have partnered with the National Labor Exchange to provide you this information. You may be looking for part-time employment to supplement your income while you are in school. You might be looking for an internship to add experience to your resume. And you may be completing your training ready to start a new career. This site has all of those types of jobs.

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  • Jobs on this site are original and unduplicated and come from three sources: the Federal government, state workforce agency job banks, and corporate career websites. All jobs are vetted to ensure there are no scams, training schemes, or phishing.
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  • The newest jobs are listed first, so use the search features to match your interests. You can look for jobs in a specific geographical location, by title or keyword, or you can use the military crosswalk. You may want to do something different from your military career, but you undoubtedly have skills from that occupation that match to a civilian job.

Job Information

ThermoFisher Scientific Engineer II, Field Service in Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom

Job Description

You will become a part of the UK Life Science Field Service team, servicing Krios and Glacios Electron Microscopes. You enjoy being on the road and can expect to be travelling up to 30% of your time, primarily to our customer sites within the United Kingdom with opportunities to support colleagues within Europe from time to time.

This role will suit someone who enjoys working in a high-paced environment. Your proactive approach, team spirit and eagerness to continuously develop your skills are what will ultimately drive your success. Our organization is developing, and we guarantee an interesting and exciting position in an international environment with opportunity for professional and personal growth.

What will you do?

  • Performing field service activities, including on-site installation, upgrades, preventive maintenance and system repairs.

  • Solving a broad range of hardware and/or software problems of varying scope and complexity

  • Coordinating your own work schedule with direct colleagues, service operations and management.

  • Teaching customers in the use of our instruments to ensure safe and effective customer operations

  • Providing proactive technical telephone and email support, ensuring that our customers are successful in the use of their instrumentation

  • Producing timely and accurate reports of your activities: e.g. service reports and expense reports

  • Assuring highest level of Customer Experience to achieve customer happiness and dedication

  • Providing sales leads to account manager

  • Providing feedback to support teams for correcting system documentation and updating procedures.

How will you get here?

  • Typically requires a BEng or MEng degree or equivalent qualification in Mechanical or Electrical and Electronic Engineering or other applicable experience in a high-tech environment.

  • Analytical trouble shooting and problem solving abilities

  • Excellent hand-eye coordination and manual dexterity

  • IT skills, including TCP/IP networking

  • Driving license required

  • Excellent communication skills in English, verbal and in writing.

  • Independent, service-minded and informative in the approach towards customers

  • Highly organized, on top of things and in control of administrative work, including service reports and customer queries, also when being in the field and the pace is high

  • A strong team contributor, working remotely with the ability to connect with colleagues in the region

  • Commercial awareness.

  • A natural curiosity about staying up to date with trends in technology and IT

  • Self-starter, loves to be challenged

  • Knowledge of Electron Microscopes is an advantage but not a requirement.

We offer motivating and multi-divisional tasks in an innovative and international working environment.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

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