Senior Fire Alarm Faults & Commissioning Engineer

Harwood Recruitment

Coleshill CP

On-site

GBP 40,000 - 55,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

9 day working fortnight
Continuous professional development
Wellness & Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
Death in service insurance
Salary sacrifice pension scheme
25 days’ holiday, increasing to 35 days
Access to mental health care support
Annual company day

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in Coleshill is seeking an onsite technical lead for the fire and life safety department. The successful candidate will be responsible for commissioning and fault-finding fire alarm systems, providing technical support, and developing the engineering team. This role offers numerous benefits, including a 9-day working fortnight, professional development, and health care support. Applicants should possess advanced knowledge of fire alarm systems and strong problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

  • Proven experience in commissioning fire alarm systems and fault finding.
  • Ability to provide onsite training and development.
  • Understanding of regulatory compliance and quality control.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical operations within the fire and life safety department.
  • Commission fire alarm systems ensuring compliance.
  • Fault find on all systems to identify rectification actions.
  • Train team members and provide technical guidance.

Skills

Technical problem-solving
Advanced knowledge of fire alarm systems
Effective communication
Customer service

Tools

Gent panels
Advanced panels
Ziton panels
Morley panels
Kentec systems

Job description

About the role

Reporting directly to the engineering manager, the role is to be the day to day onsite and technical lead within the operations team for our 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 our current engineering team from both a technical and personal level.

Fire Alarm Commissioning

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.

Fire Alarm Fault Finding

Utilise your experience and technical ability to fault find on all systems to identify rectification action.

Advanced Knowledge

Have advanced knowledge on system set ups and configuration utilising various software’s on a wide variety of panels mentioned below.

Cause and effects programming

Be able to understand and configure cause effects on a wide variety of panels as mentioned below.

Onsite training and development

Onsite training and development of all engineering team members. Working with the engineering manager on training and development plans.

Technical Management

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.

Onsite Support & Customer Relationships

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.

Quality Assurance

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, Kentec

Further knowledge

Air sampling, suppression and smoke ventilation systems.

Team member benefits include
  • 9 day working fortnight
  • Continuous professional development
  • Wellness & Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
  • YuLife – The #1 rated 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
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