Field Service Manager
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1. Territory & Business Ownership
- Operate and grow the assigned territory as the business and P&L owner.
- Take ownership of the financial performance of the assigned area, customers, and field service team.
- Work closely with Sales(AM) to develop and execute strategies for sustainable business growth.
- Drive service growth opportunities based on customer needs, installed-base requirements, and field insights.
- Support achievement of business and AOP commitments through effective planning and execution.
2. Customer Leadership
- Build and maintain strong, trusted relationships with customers across multiple levels of their organizations.
- Develop greater width and depth of customer relationships and serve as a key service leadership contact.
- Understand customers’ operational priorities, challenges, and lifecycle needs and coordinate the appropriate Honeywell resources to address them.
- Own and drive Plan for Every Customer (PFEC) activities for the assigned customer base.
- Work with Sales and technical teams to identify opportunities for service, upgrades, modernization, and lifecycle support.
3. Field Service Team Leadership
- Lead and support Field Service Specialists assigned to the territory.
- Ensure field resources are effectively aligned with customer and business priorities.
- Work with Field Operation Manager to identify and address FSS training and competency development needs.
- Promote ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning across the field service organization.
- Encourage sharing of technical knowledge and field best practices within the team.
4. Service Delivery & Operational Excellence
- Ensure service commitments are delivered effectively and in alignment with customer expectations.
- Coordinate with FSS, TSC, FSM, and Project manager, and other support functions to resolve customer and operational issues.
- Engage the appropriate organizational support structure to meet business and customer commitments.
- Maintain focus on service quality, responsiveness, operational discipline, and customer satisfaction.
- Support effective prioritization and escalation of critical customer issues.
5. Growth & Cross-functional Collaboration
- Collaborate with Sales to develop customer and territory growth plans.
- Partner with TSCs to convert customer requirements into HORIZONTAL offering.
- Support pipeline development and service growth by identifying opportunities within the installed customer base.
- Coordinate with relevant stakeholders to secure investments and resources required to support growth, customer engagement, and service capability.
- Work effectively with regional and global teams when additional expertise or support is required.
6. Safety, Quality & Compliance
- Demonstrate strong leadership in Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) and ensure field activities are conducted in accordance with applicable Honeywell and customer requirements.
- Promote a strong safety and quality mindset throughout the field service organization.
- Ensure risks, customer concerns, and significant technical or service issues are appropriately communicated and escalated.
Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification in Engineering, Automation, Control & Instrumentation, Electronics, or a related technical/business discipline.
- Min 10 years of relevant professional experience in field service, industrial automation, process control, maintenance, engineering, or a related environment.
- Min 5 years of people manager role is required.
- Preferrable to have experience of working directly with industrial customers such as Oil & Gas, Refinery, and Power.
- Strong leadership, ownership, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
- Good understanding of field service delivery and customer support operations.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across Sales, Service, Engineering, and other functions.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Strong commitment to safety, quality, and customer satisfaction.
- Ability and willingness to travel to customer sites as required.
- English communication capability sufficient to collaborate effectively with regional/global teams.
Preferred
- Experience with Honeywell systems/products or comparable industrial automation and control technologies.
- Knowledge of DCS, process control, industrial automation, instrumentation, networking, or related technologies.
- Experience in lifecycle services, maintenance, modernization, upgrades, migrations, or retrofit projects.
- Experience leading field service engineers or other technical service professionals.
- Demonstrated experience in service business growth, financial management, or territory management.