Automated Machine Support Specialist

LOCATION: Hamilton, Ohio OVERVIEW Responsible for providing advanced remote technical support for material and handling equipment, for creating and writing knowledge articles, and for providing training to customers and team members. PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Resolve very complex or previously unknown problems requiring high level technical expertise and business acumen Establish and maintain lines of communication with engineering on design, reliability and maintenance issues pertaining to our products. Be the leader for launching a Technical Support Portal and ensure internal and external adoption Recreate customer environments and problems to aid in troubleshooting/case resolution Provide Root Cause Analysis (RCA); ensures information is captured for Knowledge repository Analyze support cases pertaining to our products to isolate issues or trends with product or customer sites, providing weekly reports to leadership and quality with creative solutions that may minimize or eliminate concerning patterns or trends Track support activity in Salesforce.com, and achieve measurable assigned department and employee goals while ensuring individual and team proficiency and compliance Manage various customer priority case levels and situations, including problem resource management, customer communication and formal case escalations Perform after-hours on-call rotations which may require evenings and weekends and assist on-call support staff with urgent issues they cannot resolve on their own. May require travel to international/domestic sites to support Field Service Assist in the development of proposal budgets Assist with recruiting and training new personnel SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS, SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED: Takes a calm and mature approach to dealing with difficult problems and people Able to maintain a positive attitude throughout the support process Ability to multi-task and manage time well Superior verbal and written communication skills Ability to establish technical credibility with customers, peers and Engineers Ability to create and write complex procedures and knowledge articles Technical Skills Required: Reading Blueprints, Analog signals, 3 phase Power conversion, temperature measurement, Pneumatics Troubleshooting PLC, Electrical, Mechanical, Solenoids, Mechanical Relays, Solid State Relays Networking – TCP/IP, VPNs, Ethernet EDUCATION , EXPERIENCE REQUIRED BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience Travel expected up to 50% Technical Skills Desired PLC – Configuration, programming - Allen Bradley, TI, Omron, Siemens Step 7, Panasonic HMI Panels – Siemens, Panel Mate, Quick Panel, AB PanelView, Panasonic HMI Software – Siemens WinCC Servo – Delta Tau, Galil, Control Techniques, Lenze, Siemens Masterdrive/Sinamics, Resolvers, Encoders Computers – DOS, Windows 95/98/2000/XP/7/10 Visual Basic, Data Acquisition, VirtualBox Remote Access – pcAnywhere, TeamViewer, VNC, GoToAssist