Fire & Security Small Works Engineer

Ref: 556

Role: Fire & Security Small Works Engineer

Salary: £35,000

Location: Office & field based (Rotherham)

Hours: 40 hours, Monday to Friday

Benefits: 

• Van (can be used privately, although we’ll ask for a contribution from you for this)
• Fuel card
• Uniform
• Laptop
• Tablet
• Phone
• Ladders
• Drills (we’ll ask you to supply your own hand tools)
• 23 days holiday a year (excluding Bank Holidays)
• Pension
• Private health scheme

Key Responsibilities: 

• Conducting small sized installations of Fire and Security systems to the required British Standard, on time and on budget.
• Conducting small works alterations to the required British Standard, on time and on budget. Alterations will consist of additions to systems, repairs to systems and investigations to systems
• Help to manage & exceed client expectations
• Provide accurate, regular reports to your manager on the progress of the work
• Manage other contractors and junior colleagues on site where appropriate
• Responsible for the Health & Safety of yourself and others
• Where appropriate provide the correct completed certification accurately and on time
• We are looking for your help in reducing repeated callouts and so will expect you to achieve a first-time fix rate of 90%
• We expect you to be aware of and comply with the BS standards for servicing of systems
• Ensure your van stock level is adequate for our customer base and their requirements
• Use PDA as expected and in real time
• You will work closely with other members of our engineering and administration team and will report to our Operations Manager.
• Although we’re based in South Yorkshire, we have high profile clients all over the country and you will be expected to work away on occasion.

The successful candidate:

• Experience in the Maintenance and Repair of Fire and Security Systems (particularly Fire)
• Experience with the following systems preferred but not essential
• EMS, Kentec, Advanced and Notifier
• Galaxy and Texecom Intruder systems
• Paxton/BPT/ Videx Access control
• Hikvision and Dahau CCTV
• Aspirator Systems – VESDA, Airsense etc
• Commercial awareness
• Good time management
• Good time keeping
• Good organisational skills
• Good communication skills
• Hard Working
• Friendly
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel.