Trainee Maintenance Fire Alarm Engineer Northamptonshire

Clymac Limited ,
Northampton, Northamptonshire
Salary: From £18,500 to £20,000 per annum

Overview

Northamptonshire based role. Clymac are not only an established Fire & Security company but also growing. It’s regarded by its staff as a great place to work with excellent relationships between our office teams and remote engineers. The business is moving forward with enthusiasm building on its many strengths. It’s an exciting time to join Clymac as a maintenance engineer with plenty of opportunities to contribute and progress within the business. THE ROLE ITSELF Upon joining Clymac you will commence an established training program which includes both CPD approved classroom training whilst also shadowing one of our established engineers from our maintenance team.During this period you will learn about the theory of fire systems in conjunction with hands on training on existing fire alarm installations. Once you have completed your initial phase of training you will be allocated a number of sites where you will be responsible for contacting the customer and arranging your visits to complete the maintenance visit (PPM). Whilst attending site you will discuss the performance of the system with the customer ensuring they are happy with the system and the service they are receiving from the business. You will then make the fire system safe to work on ensuring links to the fire brigade are isolated and all sounders and relays are disabled. Once that has been completed you’ll carry out various panel function checks and then test an amount of detectors and manual call points. On completion of all testing the system will be put back into an operational state ensuring sounders and relays are reinstated and any links to the fire brigade are active. Any faults identified during visit will be rectified (where permitted and within the engineers technical ability), finally you will liaise again with the customer to discuss any findings during your visit. Customer focus is very important to us and key behavioural qualities our teams have include; being organised, having a polite and courteous manner and are pleasant and enthusiastic at all times. Once you have become comfortable with the basics of maintaining fire systems we will then introduce you to other life protection products, some of which include: • Emergency Lighting • Disabled Refuge • Nurse Call • Portable extinguishers. Where required some of our engineers are also selected to become proficient within the Security element of our business which will involve carrying out maintenance on Intruder, Access Control and also CCTV. We offer a sincere pathway for progression always advertising opportunities internally first. Approximately 80% of our more senior engineers have progressed through the business either via our maintenance or apprentice teams. OTHER REQUIREMENTS • Hold recognized electrical/electronic qualification (preferable) • Full driving license (essential) WORKING HOURS • 8am to 5pm (some flexibility will be required with start/finish times), • You work from your home address (all travel paid) • Overtime will be paid when working outside of your core hours. • You will also be required to join the callout rota which is currently 1 week on call every 10 weeks. BENEFITS • Competitive salary • Company van • Pension • Excellent career prospects A criminal record background check will be undertaken upon commencement of employment. We pride ourselves on being a socially responsible employer offering a number of programmes to our employees which include; Help the homeless where our employees can expense the purchasing of hot food/drinks for homeless people and various fundraiser matching schemes. We are also extremely proud to continually increase our quantity of female engineers, please get in touch if this exciting career opportunity sounds like it’s for you. This job was originally posted as www.totaljobs.com/job/89801052