Marine Field Service Engineer (Power) (Houston, Texas)

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This position reports to:

Service Team Leader

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Your role and responsibilities

The Marine Field Service Engineer (FSE) plans and executes, with minimal professional guidance, complex technical field assignments involving the installation, modification, test, inspection or repair of company products and equipment. The FSE may also coordinate work with other groups to ensure meeting customer commitments. Since the FSE is often the one who interacts with the customer’s operation people, they may also recommend measures to improve operations and customer service.

The work model for the role is: hybrid #LI-Hybrid

This role is contributing to the Automation, Marine and Ports Division, in either Miramar, FL or Houston, TX.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Travel to customer premises globally, in most cases onboard a vessel in offshore and in dry docks, for example but not limited to Drill ships, Drilling rigs, Offshore Supply Vessels, Cruise ships, Ferries, Tankers, Container ships, Etc.

• Working independently to install, modify, test, repair, or inspect company products and equipment including, but not limited to: Power generation, distribution and control, LV and MV, expert knowledge in protection functions.

• Remote on-call support for customer technical problems is required.

• Troubleshooting and repairing equipment, applying personal knowledge and experience.

Our team dynamics

Our teams support each other, collaborate, and never stop learning. Everyone brings something unique, and together we push ideas forward to solve real problems. Being part of our team means your work matters - because the progress we make here creates real impact out there. 

Qualifications for the role

• 5 or more years’ experience preferred in marine power generation and power distribution with a focus on protection relays, circuit breakers, contactors, transformers, AVRs, communications and control of those systems.

• Bachelor’s degree, preferred but not required, in electrical engineering or another Electrical technical field.

• Familiarity with marine/offshore work environment and procedures.

• Experience in marine power systems

• Must be fluent in both written and verbal English.

• Preferred experience with ABB marine equipment.

• Experience as a ship electrician or have experience from shipyards, understanding and interest in marine installations.

• Must be fluent in both written and verbal English.

More about us

The Marine & Ports Division serves the shipping and ports industries through its extensive portfolio of integrated systems and solutions that improve the flexibility, reliability and energy efficiency of vessels and container terminals. By coupling power, propulsion, automation, marine software and services that ensure maximum vessel uptime, the Division is well positioned to help the marine industry to achieve its decarbonization targets while improving the profitability and sustainability of our customers’ business throughout the entire lifecycle of vessels. With ABB Ability™ Marine software solutions and ABB Ability™ Collaborative Operations Centers around the world, shipowners and operators can run their fleets at lower fuel and maintenance costs, while improving crew, passenger and cargo safety as well as overall productivity of their operations. Further, the Division delivers automation, electrical systems and digital solutions for container and bulk cargo handling, from ship to gate. These solutions help terminal operators meet the challenge of larger ships, taller cranes and bigger volumes per call, and make terminal operations safer, greener and more productive.

 

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