Field Service Team Lead
Janesville, WI - USA
Job Summary
Responsibilities / Tasks
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Oversee day to day administrative functions of the Field Service team including PTO timecard and expense approval as well as documentation and safety compliance.
- Work with Service scheduler ensuring efficient routing and assignment of technicians based on skillset geography and priority.
- Review completed service reports for accuracy and adherence to departmental standards.
- Support onboarding training and mentoring of new Field Service Technicians.
- Assist with performance feedback by providing field insights to management.
- Provide administrative oversight of afterhours troubleshooting ensuring proper escalation paths technician rotation compliance and consistent customer communication.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
- Field Service Technician
- Perform installation maintenance troubleshooting and repair of equipment at customer sites.
- Provide technical expertise and on site customer support.
- Support after hours troubleshooting including phone support and emergency service guidance to ensure customer uptime and continuity.
- Document all service activities accurately including work performed parts used expenses timecards and follow up actions.
- Ensure customers have all necessary critical spares to prevent any unplanned downtime.
- Schedule Optimization and Customer Engagement
- Optimize daily and weekly service schedules to maximize technician utilization and minimize travel and expenses.
- Drive continuous improvement in service planning workflow efficiency and customer satisfaction.
- Track and analyze scheduling KPIs (utilization response time ontime arrival job completion rate).
Your Profile / Qualifications
- 35 years of experience as a Field Service Technician or equivalent technical role.
- Strong technical troubleshooting and repair skills including remote and after hours support.
- Excellent organizational administrative and communication abilities.
- Ability to balance fieldwork with supervisory and administrative responsibilities.
- Strong customer service orientation and problem solving skills.
- Previous leadership or mentoring experience.
- Experience in dispatching scheduling or service coordination..
- Familiarity with CRM/ERP or service scheduling platform preferred.
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About Company
GEA makes an important contribution to a sustainable future with its solutions and services, particularly in the food, beverage and pharmaceutical sectors.