Electrical Field Service Manager
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This position reports to
Electrical Delivery Manager
Your role and responsibilities
The Electrical Field Service Manager occupies an important position in the execution of Service projects and activities related to the Electrical installed base in Process Automation Energy Industries Electrical department in United Kingdom. You will be coordinating and planning the provision of necessary resources, spare parts and logistics for on-site service jobs, ensuring that the process is seamless, from quotation to invoicing and cash collection. In this role, you will act as the key point of contact for the customer and internal teams during the execution of a service job, optimizing customer satisfaction by meeting all obligations and requirements while complying with Health, Safety & Environment requirements. You will be providing clear guidelines, tasks, and milestones to field resources, while motivating and providing feedback to all internal teams. This role sits within a fast-paced changeable environment, so will benefit a highly organized individual that can run many tasks at once and bring them all to conclusion under tight timescales. This is a Hybrid role based in ABB Aberdeen. This role is accountable for:
1. Serving as the primary point of contact for clients, addressing their technical inquiries and service requests promptly and professionally.
2. Maintaining accurate records of service activities, including work orders, service reports, and client communications.
3. Identifying and resolving technical issues and service-related problems, escalating complex issues to higher management when necessary.
4. Overseeing the ABB Planner and all field service engineers' diaries, liaising with them on work priorities, coordinating and planning commissioning events, managing service tickets and escalations, and ultimately managing uptime and other KPIs.
5. Building strong relationships with colleagues and service partners, managing the diary for ideal efficient work planning and execution methods.
6. Monitoring SLA performance to ensure best practices in cost control, resource efficiency, and Health, Safety & Environment (HSE).
7. Working with other functions to coordinate contract negotiations and claims with customers on any new SLA contracts won.
8. Supporting customers from initiation of the service request until completion.
9. Maintaining the billing plan, margin information, and contract deliverables.
10. Providing customers with quotes or rates (as necessary) and completing service request documents in line with.
11. Planning services in the scheduling tool ensuring that timelines are met and that skills, customer location, and engineer.
12. Raising requests for materials required for site ensuring correct detail and timelines are given. This may be items from stock or to be purchased.
13. Assisting in monthly review of work in progress and ensuring orders are being processed correctly in accordance with Full Cost Model with any deviances being reviewed.
14. Assisting in resolving any customer disputes to ensure timely payment and customer satisfaction are maintained.
Qualifications for the role
* Experience in the energy industry, particularly in power generation, transmission, or distribution.
* Electrical technical background ideally previously site-based with a view to move into an office-based environment.
* Relevant experience in field service work scheduling, working as Field Service Coordinator in a Service-related environment.
* Demonstrated experience in the ability to cope in a fast-paced changeable environment, where key variables of project scope, cost, schedules, and vendors/subcontractors are key factors.
* Proven track record of building internal relationships.
* Knowledge of Salesforce/SAP and other similar workforce planning platforms.
* A collaborative, solution-focused approach, and strong written and spoken communication skills.
* Strong English Language skills.
* Demonstrated ability to plan and prioritize workload.
* Ability to work as part of a team or on own initiative and demonstrate attention to detail.
* Ability to demonstrate the importance of commercial awareness.
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