The Field Engineer

When a team leave a Field Service team, a huge gap can be left , where colleagues have to take up the slack left by the departing team member.hat should you do if the departing teammate is not immediately replaced? Charlie Apps, interviewed here,    • Field Service Leader Guy Eid interviews Me...   . shares his expertise on this subject.

Paul Camidge Service Leader with over 40 years experience as a Service Engineer. The last twenty in a variety of Medical Devices and Diagnostics companies, is joined by Arnauld Billard, who is a Service leader with 16 years of experience in Service Leadership with companies like Baxter international, and as Director of Service with BD (Beckton Dickinson), and Senior Director of Service at Cepheid....

Our First Podcast release of 2026 features 6 Field Service Leaders discussing the current state of hiring. Recorded just before Christmas, it features The Field Engineer Community Members Kevin Mace of Varian , Charlie Apps , Guy Eid , Paul Camidge , Maurizio De Poli , and Jerome Varvaro

Med Tech Consultant Charlie Apps meets Matt Neil a Radiotherapy Service Engineer from the USA. Matt is on the board of the Radiotherapy Service Engineers Association (RSEA) and is keen for people to learn about this type of field service career. Matt works for BJC Healthcare in Springfield Missouri. Matt has previously worked for Varian Medical Systems as a Field Services Engineer. He is a US Navy...

Guy Eid and Charlie Apps discuss the many interviews and discussions that The Field Engineer podcast has shared this year. Their highlights and plans for the new year. In 2025 The Field Engineer interviewed 17 individuals, Bruce Breeden, Marc Wabo, Rosemary Coates, Slava Gorovoy, Chris Tidy, Tim Robertson, Caroline Gregory, Tino Jongwe, Jason Jackman, Poonam Gupta, Kim Araman, Joe Deater, Varun Sh...

The Field Engineer has released it's first interview in Arabic. Guy Eid meets Sakher Fadaleh and discusses Sakher's 25 years of supporting medical devices in Jordan. Sakher Fadaleh has many years of experience in installing and qualifying medical instruments and machines. He has worked under challenging or extreme conditions or when there was limited infrastructure. Previously, Sakher was...

Five Field Service Leaders discuss, Why Field Service Recruitment Is Now a Multi-generational Hiring Challenge. Our Panel of five Field Service leaders are, Kevin Mace, Paul Camidge, Jerome Varvaro, Guy Eid, and Charlie Apps.

Are you working in Canada now? Or are you about to move to Canada to work? If so, what do you need to know about the Canadian culture in and out of work? In this podcast Guy Eid, MedTech professional and Caroline Gregory, Intercultural Trainer, discuss cultural topics. Guy moved to Canada in the Nineties and so draws on his own experience and on his experience helping others. Caroline has decades...

Arturo González Ballast Water Treatment Service Engineer at Alfa Laval Ibérica. Responsible for executing commissioning, troubleshooting, maintenance, repairs, upgrades and overhaul for Alfa Laval’s Pureballast system on different types of vessel in Europe (Europe & UK) and Africa ( North Africa). Provide training/support to other service engineers and project coordinators at Alfa Laval Iberia...

The Field Engineer's Community Manager Caroline Gregory meets Danielle McGeary. Discussing Danielle's life and career from Biomedical Engineer Intern to Vice President of Healthcare Technology Management at AAMI.The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation® (AAMI) is a non-profit organization founded in 1967.

Guy Eid meets Paul Camidge. Discussing Paul Camidge's 30 year career in medical service engineering and leadership. Paul is an experienced healthcare business manager with a background in technical service & support as well as medical account management in blue chip healthcare companies. Demonstrable skills in managing service departments to meet performance and financial targets. Outstand...

What is it like to move to Germany as a Health Tech Field Service Engineer? After over a decade of professional experience in India, working first with Allengers Medical Systems for six years and then Siemens Healthineers for another six, Varun's journey took a new turn in April 2023 when he relocated to Germany. It was a major decision as it was moving not just his career, but his entire life...

Joe Deater CBET AAMI GE Biomed of the Year 2025 Healthcare Technologies Management meets Charlie AppsAAMI & GE Healthcare BMET of the YearHealthcare technology management (HTM) leader and advocate Joe Deater, CBET, is the 2025 AAMI & GE Healthcare BMET of the Year. Deater is an Air Force Veteran who has worked at Munson Medical Center in Traverse City, Michigan for more than 27 years.“Rece...

Kim Araman LinkedIn Top Voice Career and Leadership Coach meets Guy Eid. Kim is based in Dubai in the UAE. In 2024 she was one of two career coaches to make the top 200, most influential people in the UAE. Kim offers some tips on how you can tap into the invisible job market, and network for career success using LinkedIn.

Field Engineer leaders Charlie Apps, Guy Eid, Bruce Breeden,Kevin Mace, and Maurizio de Poli in discussion about employee engagement. During the roundtable discussion, they discuss engagement, leadership,management, retention of employees, how to handle a merger, and how to leadmultigenerational teams. There are lots of examples from their own experienceas FSEs and as managers and team leaders.

Poonam Gupta Lead Evangelist Qbit Labs discusses her career working in Semiconductor Tech in India. Poonam discusses her career with Synopsys, Wipro, Larsen & Toubro and working with other organisations and groups. She also explains how more women can be encouraged into engineering and particularly into semiconductor engineering.

Charlie Apps meets Jason Jackman Regional Service Manager Miele UKJason Jackman discusses his background and his journey from the Army, to field service technician to regional service manager. Jason explains how the industry has changed over time and so their recruitment strategy has changed to reflect that. It's much harder to recruit from similar companies or competitors, so they also look f...

Caroline Gregory, The Field Engineer Community Manager discusses her career with Guy Eid and Charlie Apps, both team leaders and managers. Caroline is also an intercultural trainer and coach and runs Intercultural Success. The Field EngineerThe aim of the community is to support engineers through their careers. To help them to network, learn, and exchange knowledge with fellow engineers and specia...

Charlie Apps meets Chris Tidy who is the Founder of Hard Hat Awareness Week. In this interview Chris explains why a proper hard hat is important and vital protection. Do you wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle or bicycle? Do you wear a hard hat at work? In many countries wearing a helmet at work in certain jobs is compulsory under health and safety at work legislation, but it's not mandatory fo...

Tino Jongwe is a Biomedical Engineer from Zimbabwe who has already worked in three overseas locations, Canada, Australia, and the USA. Tino discusses his experience of working as a biomedical engineer, BMET, in hospitals in Canada. He compares the roles of working full time in hospitals in a BMET role, with being a Field Service Engineer for medical equipment for Elekta. The regular hours of a BME...

Part three. The final section of our Field Service Engineering Leaders Roundtable Mastermind Discussion. Topics include, instruments, customization, customisation, patches, software, firmware, hardware, training, AI, augmented reality, AR, artificial reality, scheduling, escalation and escalations, downtime, maintenance. The importance of the field service engineer who is at this moment in front o...

Part 2. of the Field Service Engineering leaders roundtable mastermind discussion discusses leadership, hiring, onboarding, and KPIs.

Part one of Field Service Engineering Leaders Roundtable Mastermind Discussion about Servant Leadership. Featuring Bruce Breeden Chief Service Officer at Michelli Weighing & Measurement, Jerry Varvaro Head of BPS Service - Americas at Sartorius , Maurizio De Poli Global Service Manager at Nanion Technologies. Hosted by The Field Engineer volunteer Advisory Team Members, Charlie Apps former Glo...

A short clip of Bruce Breeden discussing leadership, from the Field Service Engineering Leaders Roundtable Mastermind Discussion. https://youtube.com/shorts/D98zrQnvSbk

Guy Eid shows us round his apartment in Montreal where he records some of our YouTube interviews. Behind the scenes at Guy Eid's apartment in Montreal. Dans les coulisses de l'appartement de Guy Eid à Montréal.