Senior Fire Alarm Faults & Commissioning Engineer

Harwood Recruitment; St Albans; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in St Albans is seeking a Technical Lead for their fire and life safety department. In this role, you will oversee the commissioning of fire alarm systems, ensure compliance with standards, and provide high-level technical support to the operations team. The ideal candidate should have advanced knowledge of various fire alarm systems, experience in fault finding, and a strong commitment to team development. This position offers a collaborative environment focusing on service excellence and quality assurance.

Benefits

9 day working fortnight

Continuous professional development

Wellness & Employee Assistance Programme

Death in service insurance

Salary sacrifice pension scheme

25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays

Qualifications

• Proven experience with fire alarm systems including commissioning and fault finding.
• Advanced knowledge of system setups and configurations.
• Experience in onsite training and development.

Responsibilities

• Lead the operations team for the fire and life safety department.
• Commission fire alarm systems and ensure compliance.
• Provide high-level technical support and manage customer relationships.
• Establish quality control procedures and conduct regular inspections.

Skills

Fire Alarm Commissioning

Fault Finding

Technical Support

Cause and Effects Programming

Quality Control Procedures

Education

Technical qualification in fire safety or relevant field

Tools

Gent Systems

Advanced Systems

Ziton Systems

Morley Systems

Kentec Systems

Job description

Team Member Benefits

• 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

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.