LB393 - Senior Fire Fault & Commissioning Engineer
Salary: £40,000 - £45,000
Location: St Albans
Overview:
First Military Recruitment are currently seeking a Senior Fire Fault & Commissioning Engineer on behalf of one of our clients.
Our client encourages applications from ex-military personnel however all candidates will be given due consideration.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Reporting directly to the Engineering Manager, the role is to be the day to day onsite and technical lead within the operations team for the Fire and Life Safety department.
Focused on servicing, reactive calls and commissioning. This includes high level commissioning and fault finding various systems. Whilst also being involved in the development of the current Engineering Team from both a technical and personal level.
Commissioning of fire alarm systems ensuring compliance and accurate documentation. Size of system ranges between standalone 20 device systems to 500+device systems with multiple networked panels.
Utilise your experience and technical ability to fault find on all systems to identify rectification action.
Have advanced knowledge on system set ups and configuration utilising various software’s on a wide variety of panels.
Be able to understand and configure cause effects on a wide variety of panels.
Onsite training and development of all engineering team members. Working with the Engineering Manager on training and development plans.
Provide a high level of technical support both to your engineering team as well as the wider business. Ensuring compliance with relevant industry standards and regulations.
Be available to support onsite with service related issues relevant to your team and technical skillset. Look to resolve high level technical issues ensuring we are providing unrivalled customer experience.
Establish and ensure a high level of quality control procedures and standards to implement within the team.
Conduct regular inspections and audits of engineering works to ensure these standards are met. Implement corrective actions to address any non-conformities.
Core alarm systems & products: Gent, Advanced, Ziton, Morley and Kentec.
Further knowledge: Air sampling, suppression and smoke ventilation systems.
Skills and Qualifications:
You will have a drive and desire to want to learn and grow within a highly technical and customer facing environment.
You will have a high level of technical knowledge within the fire and life safety industry.
You will have experience servicing, fault finding and commissioning a wide range of addressable and conventional fire alarm systems.
You will have experience in inspiring, engaging and developing a diverse team of engineers.
You will be a great team player with excellent interpersonal skills to allow you to build relationships with both internal and external team members.
All aspects of the role must be performed in line with the business’s values to realise the vision by providing unrivalled customer experience and professional service to our clients.
The position requires high levels of self-motivation, organisation and must be performed with integrity and dedication.
In return our client is committed to empowering and developing exceptional talent.
Benefits:
9 day working fortnight.
Continuous professional development.
Wellness & employee assistance programme (EAP).
Benefits programme.
Death in service insurance.
Salary sacrifice pension scheme.
Quarterly one-to-one check-ins with your line manager.
25 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays, increasing to 35 days (1 day extra per
annum to 30 days and a further 5 days after 10 years).
A company culture that promotes work life balance.
Access to mental health care support.
Team member of the month recognising outstanding contribution.
Annual company day to share successes and strategic plans