Job Description
Field Service Technician
Elgin, IL | $65,000 - $85,000 + Paid Travel Expenses | 65-80% Travel
Join a growing team supporting advanced industrial plasma systems across North America. This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on technician who enjoys travel, troubleshooting, and working directly with customers. When you're not traveling, you'll be based out of our Elgin office providing customer support and coordinating service activities.
What You'll Do
- Commission and start up equipment at customer facilities
- Perform preventive maintenance and system inspections
- Troubleshoot and repair electrical and mechanical issues
- Train customer maintenance teams on equipment operation and upkeep
- Complete system upgrades, retrofits, and modifications
- Document service work and provide technical support
What We're Looking For
- 3+ years of field service, maintenance, manufacturing, or industrial equipment experience
- Basic electrical knowledge (180V-480V, power supplies, wiring, fuses)
- Ability to read electrical and mechanical blueprints/schematics
- Mechanical troubleshooting and repair experience
- Self-motivated with strong organizational skills and the ability to work independently
Travel & Benefits
- 65-80% travel throughout the U.S.
- Monday-Friday schedule with rare weekend travel
- Most trips last 1-3 days
- Company credit card provided for flights
- Hotel, meals, rental cars, and mileage reimbursed
- All travel expenses paid by the company
If you're looking for a role that combines travel, technical problem-solving, customer interaction, and career growth, we'd love to hear from you.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Compensation will be determined based on experience, skills, and qualifications.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Elgin, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $65,000–$85,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
Skills
- Blueprintsunmatched
- Credit Cardsunmatched
- Customer Relationsunmatched
- Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
- Customer Trainingunmatched
- Electrical Wiringunmatched
- Electricityunmatched
- Equipment Maintenance/Repairunmatched
- Groundskeepingunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Maintenance - Electricalunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- On Site Supportunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Plasmaunmatched
- Preventative Maintenanceunmatched
- Retrofitunmatched
- Schematicsunmatched
- System Start-Upunmatched
- Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
- Technical Supportunmatched
- Willing to Travelunmatched
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