Field Service Engineer

Milton Keynes
1 week ago
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Field Service Engineer Medical Devices

North London / East Midlands – Leicester to the North running East to London. Ideal locations – Northampton, Luton, Milton Keyne, Essex, Cambridge across to (Most Western point considered) High Wycombe / Aylesbury.

  • £35-37k Salary / Additional Bonus Excellent package including company car or car allowance / corporate benefits.

    Market leading manufacturer and reseller who are a global supplier of medical technology for critical care, operating theatre and home healthcare applications. Our mission is to provide high quality innovative products to patients and caregivers...

    Product Portfolio – Capital and consumable medical ventilation products, Operative care solutions. This role is focused on service provision for ventilators used in the paediatrics and neo-natal space

    Role –

    The Field Based Engineer will be responsible for the support and maintenance of existing ventilation medical device products used in NHS and private hospitals as well as the ‘roll out’ and implementation of equipment at new customer sites. The position involves maintenance and general support across hardware and software with responsibility for ensuring service agreements are adhered to. Key functions to include –

  • Equipment repairs

  • Scheduled routine maintenance

  • New product installs

  • Customer Education / assistance.

    Experience required

  • Candidates who are experienced field service engineers from the medical device or associated markets are of huge interest, but experienced field service professionals used to working on equipment that spans the medical, life science, laboratory or scientific markets are urged to apply.

  • Biomedical engineers looking to mov into Field Service with real hunger and passion may be considered as may exceptional candidates with non-sector aligned experience (they need to be exceptional).

  • Candidates form the armed forced who have service experience with medical products are also of significant interest.

  • Qualification in technical engineering or technical education with sound technical knowledge

  • Technical aptitude to understand, train customers and users on products Excellent mastery of English

  • Flexibility to travel and willingness to overnight on occasion (covering other territories)

  • Ability to work autonomously in a constantly changing environment. Self-motivated with the ability to work independently

  • Capacity to manage time constraints

  • Driving license

    Progress Sales Recruitment is a specialist sales only medical recruitment consultancy dedicated to offering client and applicants alike the highest levels of service. With over 8 year’s experience in recruitment we specialise in the following areas of work - Nurse Advisers, Clinical Specialists, Theatre Sales Specialists, Sales Executives, Business Development Managers, Team Leaders, Sales Managers, Sales Directors and all other sales focused roles within the medical sector. Our core therapy areas include Vascular,Endoscopy, Urology, Neurology, ENT, Infection Control, Anaesthesia, Blood Products, Diathermy, Infusion, Orthopaedics, Surgical Instruments and all PCT, Primary, Secondary, Theatre and Rehabilitation products

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