December 15, 2011

Position Summary

• The Field Engineer's primary responsibility is to perform installations, service and support that meets or exceeds the customers' expectations.

Qualifications & Responsibilities

• Must be capable and willing to travel to all offshore and onshore installations serviced by RigNet, primarily in the North Sea area.
• Coordinate with site personnel and project managers to complete installations in a timely & efficient manner
• Responsible for assisting with new site commissioning, testing, and approved handoff to the NOC & Operations
• Carry out site surveys and identify cable routes, antenna placement, provide a parts list and identify any hazards associated with the forthcoming installation.
• Duties may include cabling, terminating, and the mounting of indoor and outdoor equipment.
• Full compliance with all safety requirements at work site.
• Full compliance and completion of HSE training courses.

• Ability to create, edit, manipulate, & properly store all associated site documentation pertaining to the site & project ( Microsoft Visio, Excel, Word, etc) 

• Proper status reporting on the assigned installation / service call for any problems, potential issues, cost, man hours, etc.
• Responsible for assisting with proper equipment procurement, testing, staging, and delivery of such to the job site

Essential skills and experience:

• Must possess basic knowledge of offshore industry and how it operates
• Must possess good knowledge and theory of VSAT devices and operations
• Must have good troubleshooting and testing skills in regards to VSAT, networking, radio, and computer devices deployed in the field
• Must possess some Seatel / Stabilized antenna experience.  Should be able to perform basic PM and maintenance of a stabilized antenna system.

• Must possess basic understanding of all Cisco devices that RigNet deploys.
• Must be able to properly terminate and test all cables used in the field. (Cat 5/6, LMR400/600, 3 core mains)

• Must be customer focused, an effective communicator, and team player.

• Candidate should be well-organized, capable of working independently with the ability to work with minimal supervision and in high stress situations and environments
• Candidate should be well-organized, capable of working independently with the ability to work with minimal supervision and in high stress situations and environments

Physical demands and work environment:

The physical demands and work environment described here are commonly encountered and must be expected by all employees functioning in this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Physical demands: While performing the duties to this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; climb stairways, sit; use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear.  Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 Kg. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision; color vision, peripheral vision; depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

• Work environment:  Includes both office and on-shore and off-shore upstream oil and gas facilities.  While performing the duties to this job, the employee is occasionally required to travel via car, bus, boat, airplane, and/or helicopter.  The noise level in the work.
  
  If interested please contact:
  Øyvind Folge, area manager