Field Engineer

M Group Ltd; Manchester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company in the telecom sector where you will apply your knowledge of fibre and networking principles. You will work on various customer sites, ensuring adherence to safety and quality standards while contributing to essential infrastructure services. The role offers opportunities for growth, a supportive environment, and a range of benefits including a company vehicle and health care cash plan.

Benefits

Matched pension scheme

Online GP service

Employee assistance programme

Retail discounts

Life assurance

Cycle to work scheme

Enhanced parental leave

Discretionary bonus scheme

25 days annual leave

Overtime

Qualifications

• Full UK driving licence required.
• Experience in site surveys and telecom equipment installation.

Responsibilities

• Ensure project completion across various customer sites.
• Adhere to Health & Safety and quality standards.

Skills

Team player

Good interpersonal skills

Education

Security Clearance eligibility

Tools

SWA power cables

Cat 5/6

Belden

50-pair copper

fibre looms

Job description

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career; with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in afriendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

At M Group Telecom, we’re enabling and enhancing telecom networks, playing a lead role in the delivery of our tech enabled future.

We deliver full network cycle services for fixed, private and mobile operators.

Private networks- We find the best technology, manage assets and refresh systems. With 24/7 network operations, we keep things running smoothly, while operating comprehensive network repair and maintenance to keep everything in top shape.

Want to come and be a part of it?

What will you be doing?

You’ll apply knowledge of fibre and networking principles to ensure project completion across various customer sites including sub-stations, power plants, data centres, control centres, and others.

You’ll ensure strict adherence to Health & Safety and company quality standards, including end-to-end circuit testing, installation, and commissioning of telecoms equipment.

You’ll undertake site surveys, installations, and audits as per schedules set by management. You’ll be responsible for all contractors under our RAMS, acting as Principal Contractor and Competent Person on site.

You’ll escalate incidents to the H&S and Line Manager as needed. Additionally, you’ll complete training promptly, maintain assigned tools and equipment, and suggest improvements and cost-saving opportunities.

What you’ll bring?

• Full UK driving licence required for travel to customer sites.
• Eligible for Security Clearance – British nationality with 5 years of continuous UK employment.
• Team player with experience in site surveys.
• Skilled in installation, glanding, termination, and testing of SWA power cables, Cat 5/6, Belden, 50-pair copper, and fibre looms.
• Experienced in telecom equipment and DC power system installation.
• Exposure to data/control centres, racking, stacking, patching, and labelling.

Desirable:
Experience in comms rooms at substations/power stations, FOX/Ericsson card installation, SFP’s, fibre patching,

Fault finding, report and maintain FOX Multiplexer, Eltek power supplies and optical equipment. Good interpersonal and communication skills

Experience in Installation and commissioning of Forced Air Cooling in Optel cubicles, including FOX alarm mods and testing.

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include.

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme

In addition, this role offers;

• Company van/vehicle and fuel card for business use
• Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
• Overtime

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’reresponsibleand go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’reopenand seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’retogetherand as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’reambitiousand embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note:Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3^rdparty background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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