Technical Support Specialist EBSD/EDS

• Annual leave: 25 days plus bank holidays and the option to purchase up to 12 weeks more

• Employee Assistance Programme; including 24/7 telephone support, access to counselling, financial and debt management and access to trained legal advisors
• Private health insurance, dental insurance and life assurance

• MyDiscounts; save money with a number of leading retailers

• Car salary exchange scheme: sacrifice part of your salary in exchange for a fully serviced, comprehensive insured electric or hybrid vehicle
• TechScheme and CycleScheme: Purchase a bike and/or Tech or home goods from Currys/IKEA and spread the cost over 12 months.
• Pension; all employees are eligible to join the Group Pension Plan administered by AVIVA.
• Share incentive plan: Invest in your future and share in the success of the company by joining the share incentive plan.

• Encouragement and support to achieve professional and or academic qualifications to support your development and growth
• Defined career paths and regular reviews

• Have a Science Degree/PhD preferably in Electronics, Physics, Materials Science, Metallurgy, or Chemistry

• Have knowledge within the microanalysis field in particular WDS/EDS/NanoManipulators/EBSD would be preferred.
• Are experiencedof running TEM/SEM/probe and FIB would be an ideal.
• Thrive delivering exceptional customer service and solving complex problems

• High level onsite technical support for critical customer escalations and first-time installations of new products.
• Act as a primary technical support contact for the product range. Accepting customer telephone calls, logging problems, attempting to resolve problems over the telephone and by using remote control techniques.
• Receiving all initial calls in a positive, helpful and constructive manner and to communicate with the customers in a timely manner concerning the status of problems to ensure customer dissatisfaction does not occur.
• Support field engineers and distributors when they at the customer site with technical and training queries.
• Provide face to face and remote training for Engineers and Customers.
• Develop and roll out training products to customers, engineers and distributors.
• Promotion and delivery of onsite consultancy and training services.
• Take ownership of customer problems and liaise with internal departments to resolve issues, escalating issues to the technical support manager as required.
• Prepare troubleshooting guidelines/digital support products for engineers and customers.
• Develop and maintain records of problems and solutions using “knowledge centred support” methodology.
• Follow up with customers to ensure smooth equipment operation, including participation in surveys relating to CS and product performance.
• Input into new product development (NPI), ensuring that both current and future needs of the support organisation are fully considered in new product design.
• Produce Product release materials to ensure the global team are up to speed with new products as they are released, and the appropriate support polices are written and published.
• Liaising with development groups in the writing and testing of installation procedures for new or updated equipment.
• Proactively manage EoL via tech support and onsite service channels.
• Promote a positive image of Oxford Instruments Materials Analysis / Customer Support in all communications, whether in person, by telephone or written.
• Advise customer on availability of instrumentation related options, upgrades and support contracts to keep the customer up to date and satisfied and optimise service revenue streams.
• Liaise with the manufacturing department to ensure availability of parts to cover both routine and emergency situations and liaise with the local global offices to ensure stock levels are appropriate.

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