
Field Service Representative - Controls (Dedicated)
- Chicago, IL
- $30.00-48.00 per hour
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Building Strong Relationships – With the other members of the Build Team, CAPEX PM, and customers
- Deepening Product Knowledge – Understanding the customer’s product and assembly process
- Enhancing Technical Skills – Learning critical processes & new technologies
- Operational Proficiency – Gaining hands-on experience with PLC, HMI, and Servo systems, fault messaging, and machine diagnostics
- Collaborative Problem-Solving – Working closely with the assembly team lead to troubleshoot and refine integration
- Service Strategy Involvement – Engaging in integration, Pre-FAT, FAT, installation, & SAT
- Formal and informal training as required
- Transfer of knowledge to the customer
- Primary liaison to the customer
- Role will be embedded at the Customer’s facility for the duration of the embedded resource contract
- Facilitate warranty/non-warranty claims with the customer centric team.
- Responsible for driving operational and performance metrics and key performance indicators (KPI’s) of the equipment
- Troubleshoot controls equipment at the customer’s facility and make the necessary adjustments to bring equipment up to running status to achieve production requirements
- Operate system to demonstrate equipment operation and to analyze malfunctions.
- Record changes to software and electrical schematics following our red line process.
- Provide information for machine technical documentation.
- Supervise workers in testing, tuning and adjusting equipment to obtain optimum performance.
- Advise management regarding customer satisfaction and product performance and make suggestions for product improvements bi-weekly via status reporting.
- Work with suppliers to resolve technical issues at customers’ sites.
- Make recommendations for software changes only on items that require changes.
- Follow all customers’ safety regulations while at their facility.
- Maintain service reports and bulletins as required and submit them to the appropriate departments.
- Responsible to meet or exceed customer expectations in an efficient manner.
- Be able to make accurate equipment audits and reports.
- Consult with engineering personnel at ATS to resolve unusual problems in system operation and maintenance.
- Actively work with Sales Account Manager and Key Account Service Leader (KASL) on account management and opportunity development.
- Maintain International Standardization Organization (ISO) standards.
- Work on site at customer’s facility daily and be required to provide weekly time and site report details. Weekend work may be required on an as-needed basis.
- Reside near the customer site for quick responsiveness.
- Coordinate any additional PTO during contract duration with Project Management to ensure at least one embedded resource is available every weekday.
- Work within the employee handbook requirements of embedded resources within the embedded contract.
- Comply with all ATS Company policies.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Greater than three (3) years of experience within a control and automation environment.
- Current experience with Rockwell, Siemens PLC programming languages, architecture, and networks for design, debug and troubleshooting. Other platforms a plus.
- Experience with large scale, highly complex industrial control systems with preference Life Science type systems
- Servo experience is required (camming servo experience preferred).
- ABB/Fanuc robot experience would be of value.
- Experience in Vision, sensing and peripheral systems.
- Network experience using Ethernet/IP, Profinet, and other industrial control/IT networks.
- Experienced in applying complex knowledge of fundamental concepts, practices, and procedure within the area of specialization.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and willing to take on new challenges and tasks.
- Competent user of Microsoft 365 applications (Outlook, SharePoint, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
- Experience using Salesforce would be an advantage.
- Strong communication skills, ability to build and maintain relationships, Customer-Centric.
- Requires excellent interpersonal and commercial skills
- Strong command of the English language with the ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
- Experience in establishing a good working relationship with all customers, dealing with customers to resolve problems, and delivering an exceptional customer experience.
- The ability to read drawings, reference manuals and assembly systems instruction guides is essential.
- Dependable with a great work ethic and attendance.
- Able to work independently in a fast-paced environment with no supervision.
- Driving license in good standing is essential.
- Required to be able to travel to the US, Canada and Europe
- Required to locate for the period of the system build (at any of our ATS manufacturing sites)