Job Description

Overview

BLM GROUP USA is a manufacturer that partners with innovative companies to support their growth and success. The Field Service Technician role involves performing equipment installations, maintenance, and repairs at customer sites while ensuring excellent customer service.

Responsibilities

  • Support the sales staff in servicing BLM equipment
  • Install new equipment at customer sites
  • Perform preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, emergency repairs, and service of equipment for customers
  • Document all service performed on the equipment and future service needs
  • Maintain excellent customer service and satisfaction
  • Demonstrate applicable BLM GROUP software capabilities to customers
  • Prepare time sheets, service reports, and installation forms accurately and timely
  • Track expenses and complete expense reports in a timely manner
  • Maintain a safe work environment and operate within OSHA/MIOSHA guidelines
  • Communicate with other departments as necessary
  • Work overtime as required by workload and customer necessity
  • Travel up to 100% as assigned by management
  • Perform other duties as assigned by management

Requirements

  • High School Diploma required; Associate Degree in a technical discipline preferred or comparable military experience
  • 2 – 4 years of experience in a similar technical position
  • At least one year of experience in a customer service role
  • Experience with Trumpf laser machine, Amada Laser, Mazak laser, or similar laser machinery

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Position reports to the Service Manager
  • No supervisory responsibility
  • Up to 100% travel required, both domestically and internationally

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k

How this job compares in Houston, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Houston, TX currently run a median of $30/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $22–$37/hr across 100 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Houston, TX

We're tracking 371 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 205 different employers. 118 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,287 other active welding openings from 583 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Houston, or widen the search to Texas.

BLM GROUP currently has 1 other opening live in Texas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Austin Industries (35), Welding Shop in Austin, TX (25), and Zachry Group (22). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Abernathy at $45/hr, Arlington at $40/hr, and Pasadena at $37/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Houston, TX

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Field Service Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.