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Advanced Environmental Monitoring) is the global leader in innovative mission critical weather, wildfire and water monitoring and intelligence solutions. We aim to be the world's essential source for environmental insights - enabling decisive action and positive outcomes for our customers and their constituents. Our family of innovators offers world-class hydrometeorological technologies and services, including sensors, dataloggers, telemetry, and advanced analytics and software. Our technology and services empower the communities and organizations to survive - and thrive - in the face of escalating environmental risks.

This position will supervise, plan, and oversee the day-to-day operations of field service team personnel.

This position will provide supervision and direction on a cross functional basis and will report to the Field Service Manager.

Job Responsibilities:

• Monitor, maintain, integrate, install, troubleshoot and repair AEM environmental products and systems.
• Ensure day-to-day safe working practices and procedures are followed by the field service team personnel.
• Assist with identifying, hiring, and overseeing the training of qualified field service personnel.
• Oversee the training of field service team new hires and existing team personnel as required.
• Oversee and arrange, as required, travel assignments for field service team personnel.
• Ensure timely submittal of all documentation, reports, invoices, and expenses for the field service team.
• Collaborate in completing performance reviews for each member of the field team where applicable.
• Ensure service orders are assigned in a timely manner. This includes assigning high-priority service orders within 24 hours.
• Actively participate in pre-proposal communications with the customer to ensure a full understanding of the customers' field service project requirements.
• Collaborate in generating detailed field service project management plans with internal departments.
• Configure appropriate system designs based on customer's requirements.
• Work with commercial and customer success teams as required to plan or resolve field service projects or related sales order and customer issues.
• Oversee construction, installation, acceptance, and maintenance activities that utilize subcontractors on assigned field service projects.
• Verify field sites are ready for work and the necessary materials, equipment and permissions are in place prior to dispatching crews or subcontractors to the field sites.
• Program data loggers with customer specific requirements and develop data logger code to communicate with various sensor inputs.
• Create reports for individual inspection rounds, end of year summaries, and installations.
• Provide feedback to design and development teams, discuss design issues, and investigate problems.
• Communicate effectively and professionally with customers, provide equipment and system recommendations, and ensure needs and issues are resolved in a timely manner.
• Coordinate with the project management team to achieve project deliverables.
• Apply data integrity standards to ensure that timely entry, accuracy, and consistency of data is used in any system, or digital tool that stores, processes, or retrieves data.
• Approval of field team timecards where applicable.
• Ensure that all project documentation is consistently maintained to reflect accurate project status.
• Ensure defined standard operating practices and procedures are implemented and followed within the field service teams.

Requirements

• Associate degree in physical/natural science, engineering, hydrology or an applicable equivalent combination of education, experience and/or trainin
• 5+ years of technical/field service team supervision or leadership.
• 3+ years' experience as an installer of mounting hardware, sensors, cables, masts, antennas, satellite dishes or network equipment an asset.
• Strong attention to detail and a passion for data related to meteorology, environmental monitoring, flood warning, wildfire, and public safety.
• Proven operation and proper use of common hand and machine tools
• Proven operation and proper use of digital multi-meters, oscilloscope, and other electrical diagnostic tools
• Ability to read electrical schematics and wiring diagrams.
• Demonstrated experience supervising a technical field service team of similar size.
• Ability to prioritize and delegate tasks.
• Proven track record in project management, subcontractor management, customer service operations, and fiscal management skills.
• Knowledge of DC circuitry and circuitry analysis, electronics, and radio communications.
• Understanding of hydrological and meteorological engineering principles.
• Broad and extensive knowledge of remote data collection systems.
• Experience with GIS mapping software and tools.
• Related experience with cameras, networking, point-to-point telemetry, cloud software and mobile applications.
• Demonstrated complex problem-solving ability and sound judgement.
• Excellent oral and written communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills.
• Must be able to manage time efficiently to meet both client and company needs.
• Demonstrated competency with Microsoft Windows software products.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with ERP software systems.
• Must be able to work on, around, over and under fixed equipment and to