How To Become A Senior Engineering Field Technician: What It Is and Career Path

What is a senior engineering field technician and how to become one

Updated January 8, 2025

3 min read

There is more than meets the eye when it comes to being a senior engineering field technician. For example, did you know that they make an average of $38.4 an hour? That's $79,876 a year! Between 2018 and 2028, the career is expected to grow 5% and produce 18,200 job opportunities across the U.S.

ScoreSenior Engineering Field TechnicianUS Average

Salary

6.2

Avg. Salary $79,876

Avg. Salary $59,228

Stability level

5.7

Growth rate 5%

Growth rate 0.3%

Diversity

3.8

Race

American Indian and Alaska Native 0.31%

Asian 8.71%

Black or African American 9.14%

Hispanic or Latino 12.82%

Unknown 5.11%

White 63.92%

Gender

female 4.11%

male 95.89%

Age - 42

Race

American Indian and Alaska Native 3.00%

Asian 7.00%

Black or African American 14.00%

Hispanic or Latino 19.00%

White 57.00%

Gender

female 47.00%

male 53.00%

Age - 42

Stress level

5.7

Stress level is manageable

7.1 - high

Complexity level

6.7

Complexity level is challenging

7 - challenging

Work life balance

7.1

Work life balance is good

6.4 - fair

Key steps to become a senior engineering field technician

Explore senior engineering field technician education requirements

Most common senior engineering field technician degrees

Associate

40.7 %

Bachelor's

40.7 %

Master's

6.2 %

Start to develop specific senior engineering field technician skills

Skills	Percentages
Network Troubleshooting	33.93%
Workstations	15.26%
VPN	9.73%
Ethernet	8.83%
RF	8.00%

Complete relevant senior engineering field technician training and internships

Accountants spend an average of 3-6 months on post-employment, on-the-job training. New senior engineering field technicians learn the skills and techniques required for their job and employer during this time. The chart below shows how long it takes to gain competency as a senior engineering field technician based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data and data from real senior engineering field technician resumes.

Research senior engineering field technician duties and responsibilities

Recommend, engineer and manage office systems, including centralize productivity and communication systems such as e-mail and centralize desktop environments.
Repair phones, numbers, distributions blocks and workstations for trouble work orders.
Test and turn up T1 & T3 circuits and configure routers and access servers.
Work with RF design engineers to maximize RF propagation and eliminate sources of RF interference.

Get senior engineering field technician experience

Generally, it takes 1-2 years to become a senior engineering field technician. The most common roles before becoming a senior engineering field technician include field service technician, field engineer team lead and senior field engineer.

Apply for senior engineering field technician jobs

Now it's time to start searching for a senior engineering field technician job. Consider the tips below for a successful job search:

Browse job boards for relevant postings
Consult your professional network
Reach out to companies you're interested in working for directly
Watch out for job scams

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Senior engineering field technician reviews

A zippia user wrote a review on Nov 2019

Pros

talking to people

Cons

outside weather, I work as a network technician and the main problem I always encounter is the cold weather.

A zippia user wrote a review on Jul 2019