Field Engineer I

AEM (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 provides field engineering expertise relating to the installation, maintenance, design, integration, configuration, testing and troubleshooting of AEM environmental monitoring systems, integrated solutions, networks, protocols, and sensors.

This position will be located near Dallas, Texas.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide technical input on integrated solutions, network design and field engineering projects.
• Primary responsibility to perform installation, maintenance, validation, testing and troubleshooting of system solutions in the field.
• Integrate new sensors and telemetry into existing systems.
• Modify existing systems to correct errors or to improve its performance.
• Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers, and others to design systems, obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
• Design, develop and modify systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design.
• Determine system performance standards.
• Aid in the design and construction of custom configurations appropriate for unique hydrologic/geomorphic site limitations.
• Program data loggers with customer specific requirements and develop data logger code to communicate with various sensor inputs.
• Troubleshoot program and system malfunctions and resolve to root cause.
• Develop, document and revise system design procedures, test procedures, and quality standards.
• Understand emerging technologies related to customer needs.
• Coordinate with the project management team to ensure project objectives are met.
• 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.
• Ensure that all project documentation is consistently maintained to reflect accurate project status.
• Communicate effectively and professionally with customers, provide equipment and system recommendations, and ensure needs and issues are resolved in a timely manner.
• Ensure defined standard operating practices and procedures are implemented and followed.
• Assist with planning and travel scheduling for team personnel as required.
• Conducts work assignments of increasing complexity under close supervision.
• Conducts work assignments of increasing complexity with some latitude for independent judgement.
• Create reports for individual inspection rounds, end of year summaries, installation, and maintenance work.

This job description may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the job described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of the Employer.