Field engineers

Field engineers are employed by a wide spectrum of industries. As the name suggests companies require their engineers to work in situations other than their own offices. Field engineers working for oil and gas companies work on oil rigs and in refineries collecting and analyzing data, monitoring various parameters and providing feedback. Traditionally, field engineers were employed extensively in construction and heavy machinery industries. Nowadays they are employed by mobile service providers, software vendors and networking infrastructure companies.

Field engineers are engineers in the field. Consider a call centre setup. It would have hundreds of personal computers and servers. They would all be connected by network infrastructure consisting of routers, leased lines, ISDN connections, Modems, firewall etc. The entire infrastructure has to be maintained to meet exacting service level agreements. All this is possible with qualified field engineers working round the clock. Call centres may have specialized air conditioning, humidifiers, uninterrupted power supply, smart card security access systems, fire fighting equipment and much more. A single field engineer would be insufficient to handle such a vast array of equipment. In such cases a group of specialized field engineers are required to handle field emergencies.