Field Services Engineer in UK

Location: Milton Keynes
Salary: Hidden
Recruiter: Agenda Life Sciences
Job Hours: Full-time

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Company Overview

At Azenta, new ideas, new technologies and new ways of thinking are driving our future. Our customer-focused culture encourages employees to embrace innovation and challenge the status quo with novel thinking and collaborative work relationships.

Azenta Life Sciences is a global leader in the life sciences space with headquarters in Burlington, MA, and offices and operations worldwide. We are a market leader in automated bio sample management solutions and genomic services across areas such as drug development, clinical and advanced cell therapies for the industry's top pharmaceutical, biotech, academic and healthcare institutions globally. We provide unparalleled capabilities with our lab analysis, sample management and storage services, informatics software, and consumables, with the largest installed base managing over 1 billion samples globally.

How You’ll Add Value…

The Field Service Engineer performs basic/routine customer support activities involving the installation, modification, repair and preventive maintenance of Azenta's equipment and systems generally at customer sites, to ensure proper working order. Works under supervision following established policies and procedures to ensure company and customer quality standards are met. Discretion and independent judgment are required resolving customer issues. Candidate may be assigned to support a specific customer site, region, or product, depending upon business needs.

What You'll Do...

  • Install, modify, repair, conduct preventive diagnosis, and perform maintenance on the software and hardware of the equipment and systems while adhering to Brooks’ policies, procedures and work direction of supervisor or shift/site lead.
  • Interface with customers to ensure customer satisfaction with equipment and service levels.
  • Maintain a safe and clean working environment
  • Attain Equipment Service and Operation Certification on equipment and systems as defined.
  • Submit reports, such as Service and Status Reports, on all support activities as defined and required.
  • Productively react to changing priorities such as Tool or Line down and escalations and support organizational and administrative duties.

What You'll Bring...

  • Minimum HNC/HND or equivalent in a relevant discipline.
  • 3 years + related work experience or, military technical training is required.
  • Strong Electrical & Mechanical background.
  • Possess excellent communication skills with the ability to read, write and speak with clarity in the English language and interface effectively with customers and peers.
  • Requires excellent systematic troubleshooting skills utilizing a structured and comprehensive process to determine the root cause of an outage, with the ability to handle problems independently and implement corrective action.
  • Displays commitment to resolve problems and make independent decisions based upon the priority of the problem in relation to business needs.
  • Position is on-site at a customer, but must be available and willing to travel, domestically and internationally as needed, and be available for specific emergency on-call work.
  • Must have a valid driver’s license, good driving record, reliable mode of transportation, qualified to obtain a credit card for expenses and able to obtain a valid passport for the term of employment.
  • Must be qualified to meet the requirements of background screening by a third-party agency.
  • Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds, climb ladders, scaffoldings, and use Personal Protective Equipment.
  • Work performed generally will be to support global needs. International travel may be required at times.
  • Work schedule is to align with customer needs.
  • On rare occasions, individuals may be asked to be on-call, or work on holidays, or weekends.
  • Work in cold environments

We are building a high-performance organization with a collaborative team culture and passion for customer focus and are looking for exceptionally talented individuals with an appreciation for life sciences and a customer service mentality to join our field service team. If this sounds like you, we’d like to hear from you! We offer an exceptional compensation and benefits package


About Agenda Life Sciences


We specialise in life science recruitment, permanent and contract and research facility management and consultancy services.

Agenda delivers a consistently outstanding life science staffing service for clients and candidates alike. We have built up a wealth of specialist expertise, networks and databases in the animal technology, biomedical and scientific sector enabling us to deliver the following solutions to research facility resource issues:

• Life Science Recruitment
• Permanent & Temporary Recruitment
• Contract Recruitment
• Facility Management
• Careers advice and guidance
• Recruitment training

Agenda has three key values, Respect, Reputation and Responsibility; these are underpinned by four externally audited standards and are managed from Secured by Design offices. We are externally audited and hold the following certifications ISO27001 (Information Security Management), ISO9001 (Quality Management), ISO14001 (Environmental), The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) The professional body for the recruitment industry in the UK and Investors in People (IIP).

Agenda supports the research community through the provision of services aimed at facilitating research. We believe that whilst animal research continues to make a valuable contribution to scientific understand and the development of medical treatments, the animals should be treated with dignity and respect at all times.

Building on our support for the research community we have we developed our WELFARE FIRST programme. Our Welfare First programme has been developed to recognise the importance of welfare within the life sciences sector and to meet the aims of its position statement. Animal welfare is a priority, but so is the welfare of the dedicated people working with the animals and also the welfare of the life science sector itself.

Watch our short introduction video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF-AIji5M0A

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