Job Description
Job Description
Job Description
Field Service Technician
$34-$39+/hr (Based on Experience)
85% Travel | All Travel Expenses Paid + Company Credit Card
Love robotics, automation, and hands-on troubleshooting? Want a career where you can travel, work with cutting-edge technology, and continuously grow your technical skills? Join a rapidly growing team that's transforming the future of robotic welding.
What You'll Do
- Operate and support advanced robotic welding systems at customer facilities
- Perform preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, and repairs on automation equipment
- Diagnose mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and robotic system issues
- Read and interpret blueprints, electrical schematics, and engineering drawings
- Monitor system performance and ensure high-quality production
- Assist with installing and commissioning autonomous robotic welding cells
- Work alongside engineering teams to solve technical challenges and improve equipment performance
- Track inventory, document service activities, and support continuous improvement initiatives
- Learn robotics, vision systems, and software as you grow into more advanced technical responsibilities
What We're Looking For
- Technical degree, trade school, engineering degree, or equivalent hands-on experience
- Experience troubleshooting mechanical and electrical equipment
- Manufacturing, automation, machine building, welding, fabrication, or maintenance experience preferred
- Ability to read blueprints and electrical schematics
- Interest in robotics, automation, and emerging technologies
- Strong problem-solving skills with a willingness to learn
- Comfortable traveling Monday-Friday (approximately 85%)
Why You'll Love It Here
- $34-$39+/hr based on experience
- Plenty of overtime opportunities while traveling
- All travel expenses covered, including hotel, rental car, flights, and a company credit card
- Flexible PTO
- Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
- 401(k) with Empower
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Referral Bonuses
- Clear career growth—from operating robotic systems to preventative maintenance and specialized hardware roles
Grow Your Career
This isn't just another field service job. You'll join a team that's expanding rapidly and offers a defined career path as you build expertise in robotics, automation, and advanced manufacturing. Whether you're looking to sharpen your troubleshooting skills or become a robotics specialist, you'll have the opportunity to learn from experienced engineers and grow into increasingly technical roles.
If you're ready to travel, solve complex technical challenges, and work with industry-leading robotics, we'd love to hear from you!
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Lafayette, LA |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $34–$39 Per Hour |
| 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
- Automationunmatched
- Blueprintsunmatched
- Car Rentalsunmatched
- Commissioningunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Credit Cardsunmatched
- Dental Insuranceunmatched
- Electrical Componentsunmatched
- Electrical Engineeringunmatched
- Electricityunmatched
- Emerging Technologyunmatched
- Engineering Drawingunmatched
- Equipment Maintenance/Repairunmatched
- Home Automationunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Leading Edge Technologyunmatched
- Manufacturing Automationunmatched
- On Site Supportunmatched
- Performance Analysisunmatched
- Performance Managementunmatched
- Preventative Maintenanceunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Roboticsunmatched
- Schematicsunmatched
- Vision Planunmatched
- Weldingunmatched
- Willing to Travelunmatched
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