Full-Time

Field Service Engineer Manager

Posted on 12/13/2025

Ocean Optics

Ocean Optics

51-200 employees

Manufactures portable spectrometers and sensing solutions

Compensation Overview

£60k/yr

Oxford, UK

Hybrid

Hybrid role; requires regular national travel to support engineers.

Category
Operations & Logistics (2)
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Required Skills
Customer Service
Requirements
  • HNC / HND in an electrical, electronics field.
  • Maths & English GCSE.
  • Minimum of 3 years customer service/support role in a field service capacity.
  • Management of a remote technical team.
  • Experience of work-place H&S requirements.
  • Good understanding of computer-based systems.
  • Flexible approach to work hours, including over-night stays, weekend work and night work when necessary.
  • Full and clean driving license.
Responsibilities
  • Manages field service personnel to provide effective on-site support and assistance.
  • Conduct regular 1-2-1’s and bi-annual appraisals with direct reports.
  • Monitor team performance and provide coaching as necessary.
  • Develop training plans to meet all product and legislative requirements.
  • Oversees the scheduling and training of the field service team, service contracts and directs support services ensuring that customers SLA’s are met and manage resources to ensure coverage of territories and customer sites.
  • Accountable for meeting customer service levels and operational KPI’s.
  • Plan and oversees installation, commissioning, troubleshooting, maintenance of products and equipment to ensure proper function and maximizing uptime.
  • Acts as a liaison and escalation point – internally and externally for installation, commissioning and service whilst developing and maintaining relationships with customers, colleagues and suppliers.
  • Ensure all customer issues are satisfactorily resolved in a timely and professional manner, utilizing engineering, manufacturing and other teams as needed.
  • Collaborate with sales and support teams to understand customer requirements and provide sales support.
  • Develops methods, guidelines and policies to facilitate a safe and efficient service delivery environment.
  • Continually evaluate and improve field service processes to increase efficiency and customer satisfaction.
  • Prepare and produce reports to monitor service performance and enhance customer satisfaction. Implements changes based on information to improve performance.
  • Build and implement field service delivery capabilities in line with the business strategy.
  • Ensure compliance of all H&S requirements for team, customers and all associated equipment.
  • Responsible for making sure that all equipment is calibrated in a timely manner and prior the expiry date and all training renewals are completed promptly, meeting all deadline requirements.
  • Responsible for ensuring all site specific RAMS / POWRA’s are in place and meet the KPI requirements.
Desired Qualifications
  • Gas detection awareness.
  • Experience of working with complex industrial electromechanical devices and equipment.
  • Experience of working within a regulated environment.
  • NEBOSH/IOSH General H&S Certificate.
  • Experience of Microsoft Navision or Dynamics 365.

Ocean Optics makes compact spectroscopy hardware and related optical sensing tools. Its flagship products are miniature, portable spectrometers used to measure light across wavelengths for scientists and engineers in fields like chemical analysis, environmental monitoring, and industrial sensing. The devices work by detecting light that passes through or reflects from a sample and translating it into a spectrum—the distribution of light by wavelength—using optical components and a small detector. The company differentiates itself with a modular approach and small, affordable spectrometers that can be integrated into custom systems or handheld devices, enabling researchers to build compact spectroscopic tools rather than relying on large, expensive lab equipment. Ocean Optics' goal is to broaden access to spectral data by providing versatile, scalable sensing solutions that allow users to deploy spectroscopy across a wide range of applications and environments.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Dunedin, Florida

Founded

1989

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What believers are saying

  • Edmund Optics partnership expands global distribution since August 2025.
  • Halma acquisition in 2004 enables cross-selling in water treatment.
  • Miniaturization trend boosts IoT and remote sensing market capture.

What critics are saying

  • Chinese manufacturers commoditize miniature spectrometers, eroding moats.
  • Halma underinvests R&D versus PerkinElmer and Shimadzu focus.
  • International Light Technologies acquisition threatens operational autonomy.

What makes Ocean Optics unique

  • Ocean Optics released world's first miniature spectrometer in 1992.
  • Pioneered modular spectroscopy for portable environmental sensing.
  • Leads in high SNR Ocean SR series spectrometers since 2023.

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Growth & Insights and Company News

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6 month growth

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2 year growth

-15%
Ocean Optics
Aug 12th, 2025
Ocean Optics Partners with Edmund Optics for Global Distribution

ORLANDO, Fla. - (August 14, 2025) - Ocean Optics, a pioneer in modular spectroscopy and a trusted name in optical sensing, is proud to announce a new Supplier Partner relationship with Edmund Optics.

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EIN News
Sep 8th, 2023
Ocean Insight Announces Richard Curran as New President

Ocean Insight announces Richard Curran as new president.

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Jun 22nd, 2023
Women in Engineering Day 2023

Ocean Insight has been named the Best Place to Work in both Central Florida and New York state.

Ocean Insight
May 3rd, 2023
Press Release: New Ocean SR series

Orlando, Florida, USA (May 4, 2023) – Ocean Optics, a brand of Ocean Insight, introduces compact, versatile Ocean SR series spectrometers distinguished by their rapid spectral acquisition speed and high signal to noise ratio (SNR) performance.

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