How to select Engineers who thrive in Field based roles
What separates someone who can work alone out in the field on site, and someone who works in an office-based environment.Travel requirements have changed because…
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Three things are certain in life – death, taxes, and a shortage of Field Service Engineers
Across industries and in all countries, more field engineers are needed.A shortage of Field Engineers loads pressure on existing team members.In industries where there is…
Managing a Medical and Scientific Instrument Support team, Sakher Fadaleh’s insights
Any manager of a support team must balance the care and support of their team of field engineers, and the care and support of their…
Al Bates and Carl Tope advise on how to handle on-site communication challenges
Most field engineers will agree that there are two sides to their role: The technical side The human side The most challenging side will vary…
Is it time to move on from working in the field?
Coming into a permanent base after time as a field engineer After months, years or even decades of working in the field, an engineer may…
Will Remote-first impact Field Engineering?
Field Engineers work on their own and in the field for the majority of their time. Some spend the rest of their working time in…
Carl Clough investigates his IT field engineering transferable skills
It is part of the life of a Field Engineer that technology is constantly changing. Someone who started their career twenty years ago is very…
Where do excellent Field Service Managers come from?
The ideal Field Service Manager is someone with a strong technical background, who is happy to move into managing and to be primarily office based…
Ten tips for talking technical to non-techies
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.Albert Einstein Our recent blog post –Twenty skills needed by a field service engineer.…
Why Ex-Military personnel transition into great civilian Field Service Engineers
Today is Memorial Day in the United States. It celebrates those from the military – past and present. The technical training and skills the military…