Field-Based Fire Alarm Engineer — Company Vehicle & Training

Smile Digital; West of England; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company vehicle

Fuel card

Paid travel

23 days holiday + Bank Holidays

Birthday off

Holiday increasing with service

Tool cover

Personal accident insurance

24/7 GP access

Company sick pay

Employee assistance programme

Referral scheme

Ongoing training and technical dev

Job summary

Smile Digital is seeking a Fire Engineer in Bristol for a field-based, permanent role focused on fire alarm and life-safety systems. You will service, fault-find, and maintain systems across customer sites, with on-call duties and strong customer liaison.

The ideal candidate has hands-on fire life-safety experience, good electrical knowledge, and a full UK driving licence. Experience with major brands is useful, and on-site work is expected.

Qualifications

• Hands-on fire alarm or life-safety experience.
• Experience servicing and maintaining fire systems.
• Full UK driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Servicing and maintaining fire alarm systems.
• Reactive fault finding and breakdown response.
• Routine system testing.
• Completing like-for-like repairs.
• Identifying and diagnosing electrical and system faults.
• Carrying out minor remedial works.
• Emergency lighting testing and maintenance.
• Completing service records and documentation.
• Working independently across customer sites.
• Liaising professionally with customers.
• Participating in the on-call rota.

Skills

Fire life-safety experience

Electrical competence

Fire system servicing

Fault-finding ability

Reactive repairs

Customer-facing skills

UK driving licence

Fire system brands familiarity

Emergency lighting experience

Electrical qualifications

Education

Electrical qualifications (FIA / FESS / ECS)

Tools

Advanced

Kentec

Gent

Morley

C‑Tec

Hochiki

Job description

Smile Digital is seeking a Fire Engineer in Bristol for a field-based, permanent role focused on fire alarm and life-safety systems. You will service, fault-find, and maintain systems across customer sites, with on-call duties and strong customer liaison.

The ideal candidate has hands-on fire life-safety experience, good electrical knowledge, and a full UK driving licence. Experience with major brands is useful, and on-site work is expected.