Description:

**Candidate needs to be located in the Huntersville, NC (Charlotte) area. This can be in a 1-2 hour radius of the Greater Charlotte area. Position will work remotely out of their home, but will travel to clients in the South East area. Clients include Automotive companies, Food & Beverage companies, Pharmaceutical companies, and Aerospace companies.**

The Associate Service Engineer will be primarily responsible for preventative maintenance requirements that the client is obligated to provide when they sell a robot to a client. This is more of a proactive service to ensure issues don't come up down the line with these robots, which then turn into Service Calls. They don't want their Service Engineers to do preventative maintenance as they want these Service Engineers available for reactive Service Calls that come in.

This person will provide clients with on site repair, troubleshooting, programming or maintenance services for Robots and related system peripheral equipment. The Associate Service Engineer will report into the mi office This person must be able to travel to a customer site on moment’s notice to perform preventative maintenance, troubleshooting and repair functions. Assignments may involve long hours, night, weekend, and holiday work. Air travel is sometimes required. Upon the completion of the call a Service Report describing the problem, the corrective action and detailing the labor, material and travel expense costs is provided to the customer and then returned to for processing.

Specific Job Duties:

• Troubleshooting, repair, maintenance, and preventative maintenance of Robots and controllers, electrical control devices, and peripheral equipment

• Electrical troubleshooting would entail looking at schematics, troubleshooting control panels, and checking voltage readings

• Mechanical troubleshooting would entail tear downs of certain parts of robot to replace parts

• Preventative maintenance (this is a service offers to all clients to be performed on those robots that clients buy) include replacing grease & lubricants, inspection of robot (moving robot around), and doing software backups on the robot

• At times may have to provide telephone based troubleshooting through the Hotline to support customer’s in resolving America or related peripheral equipment operational problems

• Documenting products and related peripheral equipment performance and failure modes

• Daily reporting to Service Management to update status & availability

• Completion of a Service Report for each customer call

• Maintenance of a service tool kit to facilitate rapid customer response

• Return of parts shipped for the service call but not purchased by the customer or defective parts replaced under warranty

• Provide informal on-site training to customers employees to improve the customers’ ability to effectively operate, troubleshoot, and maintain the robot and related peripheral equipment

• Collection of data as part of a failure investigation for reoccurring problems that may be the result of a product design or manufacture error

• Robot and system programming and path editing of FANUC robots and related peripheral equipment to restore, maintain or optimize system performance

Hours: On average the Associate Service Engineer can expect to work between 50-60 hours a week. OT is paid after 40 hours.

Travel: 75% of the time will be spent traveling to clients in the South East area of the U.S. They will travel to MI at the start of their assignment to train for 3 weeks.

Skills:

Troubleshooting, Electrical, Mechanical, Preventive maintenance, Field service, ohm's law, robot programming

Top Skills Details:

Troubleshooting,Electrical,Mechanical,Preventive maintenance,Field service,ohm's law

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

MUST Haves:

- Associates degree or formal schooling post high school

- 2 years of electrical troubleshooting experience (i.e. schematic reading, troubleshoot control panels, voltage readings)

- Need to know and understand what OHM's law is.

- 2 years of mechanical troubleshooting experience (i.e. change oil, tear down of equipment)

- Previous experience working with industrial automation equipment

- Experience or ability working with a customer

- Ability to travel and valid credit card

Nice to Have:

- Previous experience working with a robot

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