Field Service Technician - RGC - Field Based (UK) in Essex

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Located: Field based (Stoke on Trent and the Midlands)

Package: Competitive salary, Pension, Benefits

About Ricoh: Ricoh is a global technology business. As a company born in print, we design and manufacture graphic solutions that transform communications. To keep up with the pace of change in the workplace, we have built an extensive portfolio of innovative, industry-leading digital services spanning everything from Cloud & IT infrastructure solutions to process automation tools. Everything we do is designed to help individuals achieve fulfilment through work. Through technology, we make work smarter and more creative, enabling people to lead purposeful working lives and organisations to become more productive, sustainable and profitable.

What you will be doing:

• To provide a technical service to customers, including the maintenance and repair of Ricoh Graphic Communication, Print products and Pre and Post Processing equipment.
• To ensure customers receive a satisfactory service in line with agreed service level agreements.
• Provide a technical service for both installation and de-installation of Ricoh Graphic Communication products, ensuring that project milestones for installations and de-installations are achieved efficiently meeting contractual obligations.
• Ensuring customers are kept up to date on the progress made.
• Responsible for the timely escalation of technical problems as specified within Service processes, to ensure the downtime of equipment is kept to a minimum.
• To maximise revenue by identifying additional business and professional service opportunities, whilst carrying out day-to-day duties.
• Ensuring these opportunities are reported through the correct channels.
• Responsible for supporting the management of business relationships with customers and end users in order to maximise customer satisfaction.
• Management and control of vehicle and account stock, to improve first time fix levels to customers, and to minimise stock losses.
• Out of hours and shift working will be required as the business need dictates including weekends and Public Holidays.

You will ideally have:

• Previous experience in a Field Technician role, preferably within the Production Print sector.
• Excellent technical knowledge of the full range of RGC product range.
• Excellent problem solving skills.
• Proven fault finding technique.
• Excellent knowledge of electrical/mechanical engineering.
• Skilled in the use of electronic diagnostic tools.
• Good product knowledge.
• Ability to read and understand complex mechanical instructions.
• IT literate.
• Networking capabilities.
• Excellent Interpersonal and customer handling skills.
• Excellent knowledge of Company Service procedures.

In return for your commitment, you can expect:

• Flexible and hybrid working in line with role requirements.
• An inclusive workplace.
• Excellent package with solid basic, strong bonus and company benefits including:

• A competitive holiday entitlement, two days special leave per annum for volunteering, additional holiday purchase scheme.
• Flexible retirement plan.
• Wellbeing schemes to support your physical, emotional and financial health including Employee Assistance Programme, financial protection, life cover and will writing, medical protection, gym, travel and retail discounts, and more.
• Company car/car allowance (role-specific), cycle to work scheme.

Career development and life-long learning opportunities.

Opportunity to join a global company.

Life at Ricoh: Ricoh’s Core Values encourage us to constantly improve and contribute to the wellbeing of all stakeholders, including our customers, employees and society. For our leaders, we deliver training and mentorship to ensure our managers can positively contribute to our company culture, with inclusive behaviours that are aligned to our values.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We are open to discussing adjustments to the recruitment process if needed. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non-membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.

Striving for inclusion and diversity isn’t just the right thing to do. Diverse approaches, perspectives and experiences make us more innovative, lead to better decisions and help us better understand the needs of our customers.