Technical Support Engineer - Point of Care

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Technical Support Engineer – Point of Care

Do you want to contribute to the future of healthcare? Siemens Healthineers are searching for a home-based Technical Support Engineer (TSE) to join our Point of Care (POC) business. This is an exciting opportunity for an engineer to join our award-winning organisation, where you will work as part of the regional support team to cover the full range of Point of Care products.

As a Technical Support Engineer the successful candidate will be working as part of the Customer Services Diagnostics Remote Services Centre helpdesk team provides problem analysis and technical clarification support services to both internal and external customers. Through the technical call clarification process, they aim to achieve and maintain a high level of customer satisfaction for Siemens Healthineers products, thereby ensuring continued profitable growth of the Healthcare business.

This role requires the individual to demonstrate the ability to analyse, remotely troubleshoot, repair, maintain and support clinically the full range of Point of Care equipment in the UK. Additionally, they must be able to communicate clearly and effectively at all levels and address customer support issues promptly and professionally.

Working Partners/Contacts:

As part of a product technical support team the candidate will be responsible for providing technical and application support to customers over the phone. The job holder will be expected to provide a vital technical call clarification service support over all products, working very closely with RSC second level and HSC third level support, as well as with sales and field application support teams.

This is a home-based role but a flexible approach to travel is required; shift working will be required, with opportunities for out of hours support. The jobholder will be required to provide remote as well as occasional field based technical support and command a high level of analytical skills. Attendance of training courses, customer training, meetings, and technical seminars in the UK abroad and foreign countries is required. The successful candidate will be required to participate in helpdesk shift rota as part of the Customer Care centre’s support process.

Your tasks and responsibilities:

·  Provide daily technical call clarification as part of the customer care centre process.
·  Provide all types of on-site escalated technical and application support at a national level, in close liaison with CS management. This may require the job holder to travel occasionally to a customer site anywhere in the UK at short notice.
·  Provide reports, technical analysis, benchmarking and product technical information to all stakeholders within CS as required.
·  Work in cooperation with the customer care centre, carry out reactive service, where necessary
·  Ensure that all activities are carried out in accordance with CS processes, local rules and health and safety policy.
·  Provide technical coaching/training for engineers or customers as instructed by CS management team as required
·  Conduct call, parts and modification technical vetting in a timely and accurate manner.
·  Occasionally provide on-site support for all CS related technical activity involving your chosen modalities products on a national level.

Your qualifications and experience:

·  Proven experience using, supporting and troubleshooting the full range of Point of Care products
·  Trained and demonstrable experience (technical and clinical) within a range of Point of Care products
·  IT skills, including an understanding & remote support troubleshooting, laboratory base network solutions and Networking infrastructure as well as current IT technologies is desirable
·  An understanding of clinical modality applications and laboratory-based workflow
·  Demonstrable experience of technical problem resolution
·  A working knowledge of fault analysis and resolution
·  Knowledge of escalation processes
·  Good interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to deal with staff and customers at all levels.
·  Demonstrable technical report writing skills capabilities
·  Strong communication skills written and verbal in English
·  Communication skills written and verbal in any other languages is also appreciated
·  Ability to work effectively under pressure
·  Ability to develop positive customer relationships
·  Ability to analyse, plan, report and take action on technical issues
·  Ability to work in a virtual Team environment
·  Knowledge and skills about additional Product Line/s other than POC will be considered as a plus

Additional information:

Candidates will be mainly home-based and self-motivated. They will need to work effectively supporting customers being part of the Remote Services Centre. The candidate should be flexibility with regard to working hours and may spend time away from home occasionally. From time to time the nature of Healthcare business dictates that the candidate may be expected to work outside normal hours or weekend days thereby spending nights away from home in order to meet business needs, attend trainings and meetings.

Being part of our team:

Siemens Healthineers is a leading global medical technology company. More than 48,000 dedicated colleagues in over 70 countries are driven to shape the future of healthcare. An estimated 5 million patients across the globe benefit every day from our innovative technologies and services in the areas of diagnostic and therapeutic imaging, laboratory diagnostics and molecular medicine, as well as digital health and enterprise services.

Your cultural fit:

Our unique team spirit arises from embracing different perspectives, open debate, and the will to challenge conventions. Change is a constant aspect of our work. We aspire to lead the change in our industry rather than just react to it. That’s why we want you to seek, implement and celebrate your best ideas.

We recognise that building a diverse workforce is critical to the success of our business. We strongly encourage applications from a diverse talent pool and welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility requirements with our applicants to encourage agile working and innovation.

In return we offer a comprehensive rewards package which includes a competitive salary, bonus scheme, pension, 26 days holiday and a flexible benefits package that you can tailor to suit your lifestyle including private medical, dental insurance, and many more.

Organization: Siemens Healthineers

Company: Siemens Healthcare Limited

Experience Level: not defined

Job Type: Full-time