England

Senior Security Systems Engineer (Installation & Commissioning)

Role: Permanent
Salary: £42,000/ANNUAL
Location: Blackfriars Foundry, Blackfriars Rd, London SE1 8EN, UK
Reference: 42437

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Job Title: Senior Security Systems Engineer. We are looking for a Senior Security Systems Engineer to join the team. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a company that excels in security systems industry and is making a name for themselves both throughout the UK and Globally. We strive to find the right kind of people, who respect our Values and deliver on our 3 Unique’s. Our culture and team are our strongest assets, and we want to recruit new staff that bring a happy disposition and a positive, energetic attitude to their work and work environment. The ideal candidate will be flexible, customer-focused and a problem-solving specialist who appreciates a challenge and thrives on accountability and being responsible for delivery excellence. The mission of the Senior Security Systems Engineer is to ensure all system project installations are completed on schedule, safely, within budget and to both the Clients and our own QA Standards. The Senior Security Systems Engineer facilitates successful delivery through the installation, testing, inspection, and commissioning process while maintaining and improving standards.

Key Accountabilities • Responsible for the delivery of installations 1st and 2nd fix

• Training and commissioning

• Project handover and documentation

• Technical support and troubleshooting for clients and Engineers

• Implementing and overseeing the quality assurance for Engineers

• Liaise with clients and attend site meetings

• Engage with our internal procurement team and suppliers to ensure a successful delivery of projects

• Issue progress summary reports on the status of projects to our Project managers or Clients

• Review and update on Engineers training requirements and their appraisal status

• Attend internal meetings with the operations team to improve best practices and processes

 

Why work for us?

• Competitive salary plus overtime

• Company pension

• Team based philosophy

• Professional development and training

• Diverse job with a wide variety of installations and clients

• The company has ambitious growth plans and there are opportunities for progression

• A good holiday allowance (25 days + bank holidays)

• Work-life balance day x 1 per month after 3 month continuous employment (Currently in 3 month trial)

• Birthday day off

• Annual leave loyalty programme additional 5 days leave as follows. a) 1 day after 1 year of service b) 3 days after 3 years of service c) 5 days after 5 years of service

• Private medical insurance after 3 months of continuous employment

• Medicash cashback scheme after 3 months of continuous employment

• Social activities and team events

• Volunteering days x 2 annually by HR approval

 

 Skills and Abilities • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Highly organised and detail-oriented engineer

• Practical aptitude

• Ability to work independently and coordinate activities at multiple sites

• Time-management and ability to meet deadlines

• Works well under pressure

• IT literacy, MS Office and ideally proficient in the use of work management applications

• Demonstrable knowledge of IP technology

• Good understanding of networking (e.g. Cisco, TCP/IP, routing, switching)

• Project QA and close-out report writing

• A proven problem solver

• A can-do attitude with the ability to adapt to change quickly and efficiently

• Self-improvement, the ability, and aptitude to learn new systems

• Experienced at installing security systems with speed and accuracy

• The ability to review site plans and engineer notes and provide feedback and advice to colleagues, fit-out contractors and clients

• Willing to meet the company ethos of offering independent professional advice to the client

 

Experience, Licences & Qualifications 1) Minimum of 5 year’s industry experience working within security installations and servicing companies 2) Previously worked in a security systems engineer role 3) Demonstrated ability commissioning or working with the following typical security systems;

• Access Control (Preferably - Brivo, Openpath, S2, Lenel, C-cure, Inner Range)

• Intercoms (Preferably - 2N, Comelit)

• CCTV (Preferably – Axis, Hik Vision, Avigilion, Eagle Eye, Milestone)

• Intruder Alarm (Preferably - Galaxy, Texecom, Scantronic, Pyronix, Inner Range) 4) Customer facing experience and able to complete multiple activities in the same day 5) Experience in integrating multiple systems e.g. hardwire link access control and intruder alarm 6) Familiar with installations to NSI standards 7) Advanced understanding of IP networks and VLANS 8) Full and clean UK car driving license

 

Important information: 1) You will be expected to work a reasonable amount of paid overtime (Project delivery and commissioning

can fall on a weekend and out of hours work is required infrequently)

2) The equipment we provide is:

• Company phone

• Company laptop

• Large and specialist Power tools

• Work uniform

• Company Van and travel expenses covered

• All PPE

 

Core Values

1) WE CARE – IT’S ALL PERSONAL. 2) WE DO IT RIGHT… RIGHT TO THE END. 3) WE GET THE JOB DONE, WITH A SMILE.

Our 3 Uniques 1) THINK LIKE THE CLIENT 2) TEACH TECH, LEARN TECH

3) GIVE GREAT ADVICE

 

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