Field Service Engineer - (Medical Instrumentation), Providence, RI

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Field Service Engineer - (Medical Instrumentation), Providence, RI

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO

• 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.

We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

Embrace the vision of becoming the leading diagnostic service provider by achieving customer loyalty and economic profitability through passion, partnership, and performance. Efficiently provide technical support solutions including installation; corrective; pre-emptive and proactive maintenance. Go above and beyond to respond to customer needs by partnering with sales; marketing and other functional areas while adhering to current compliance guidelines.

The Opportunity

• This position is remote.

• Must be able to travel up towards 50%.

• Qualified candidates must live in the Providence, RI area.

What You’ll Work On

Represent Abbott Diagnostic Division to its customer:

• Responsible for providing on-site support to Abbott Diagnostic Division (ADD) customers.

• Act as a trusted partner to existing customers.

• Support District business objective and goals.

• Provide direction and develop mentoring skills to mentor other FSRs.

• Troubleshooting and resolving complaints reported by customers on complex medical instruments.

• Understand and follow Quality System. This includes Accurate and timely documentation of complaint resolution, Understand and practice regulatory and compliance procedures, maintain a safe work environment following laboratory safety guidelines.

• Schedule and complete routine preventive maintenance installations and other updates provided by Abbott.

Integrate effectively into the service team:

• Work effectively within a diverse and dynamic team environment.

• Support on call rotation time, territory, and inventory management

• Standby and after-hours responsibilities

• Flexible working hours

• Unpredictable Travel

• Travel for support of other territories and training

• Providing on-site critical account support inside and outside of district boundaries.

• Responsible for IRL ownership to achieve organizational goals and customer satisfaction.

• Responsible to work cross functionally to achieve customer satisfaction through direct communication within the local performance partnership teams (P2T).

• Responsible to maintain ownership of customer issue until successful escalation or hand off takes place.

In addition to this position requires:

• Superior technical competency.

• Proactive Account