Fire & Security Engineer

Salary: £43,680-£49,920 basic salary, equivalent to £21-£24 per hour
Location: Oxford, covering Oxford, West Home Counties and surrounding areas
Type of Work and Hours: Full-time, permanent, field-based, Monday to Friday, 40-hour standard week

Are you an experienced Fire & Security Engineer looking for a better regional patch, a stronger hourly rate and a package that properly rewards your time?

This is an excellent opportunity for a capable Fire & Security Engineer to join a well-established engineering business offering a competitive basic salary, paid travel after the first 30 minutes, strong overtime rates and a manageable on-call rota. The role will suit an experienced engineer based in or around Oxford who wants varied work across Oxford, the West Home Counties and surrounding areas, without being tied to excessive long-distance travel every week.

Our client is looking for someone confident across service, maintenance, fault-finding, repairs and small works on fire and security systems. You will be working across a varied customer base, supporting systems including fire alarms, CCTV, intruder alarms, access control and door entry, with additional experience across gates, barriers or related systems considered a real advantage.

Job Description

As Fire & Security Engineer, your duties will include:

• Carrying out service, maintenance, fault-finding and repair works on fire and security systems

• Working across fire alarms, CCTV, intruder alarms, access control and door entry systems

• Completing small works, remedial works, minor installations and system upgrades

• Diagnosing faults on panels, circuits, components, cabling and associated equipment

• Liaising professionally with clients and site contacts while completing works

• Completing job reports, risk assessments, method statements and service documentation

• Ensuring all works are completed safely and in line with relevant standards and procedures

• Managing van stock, tools and equipment to support efficient first-time fixes

• Participating in the on-call rota when required

Person Specification

Suitable applicants will ideally have:

• Previous experience as a Fire & Security Engineer, Security Engineer, Fire Alarm Engineer or multi-skilled systems engineer

• Strong fault-finding and maintenance experience across fire and/or security systems

• Practical knowledge of CCTV, intruder alarms, access control and door entry systems

• Experience with a range of manufacturers such as Protec, C-Tec, Gent, Advanced, Notifier, Morley, Paxton, ACT, Galaxy, Texecom, Hikvision or similar

• Ability to work independently in a field-based role and manage a regional workload

• Good customer communication skills and a professional approach on site

• Strong health & safety awareness and ability to work in live customer environments

• Full UK driving licence

• Experience with gates, barriers, disabled refuge or nurse call systems would be advantageous but is not essential

This role offers a basic salary of £43,680-£49,920, equivalent to £21-£24 per hour, based on a 40-hour working week. Travel is paid after the first 30 minutes, overtime is paid after 8 hours at 1.5x, with lates and weekends paid at 2x. There is also optional on-call available, up to a maximum of 1 in 12, with a £250 bonus. A van, tools, mobile and laptop are provided.

If you are an experienced Fire & Security Engineer in the Oxford area and feel your current role is no longer offering the rate, patch or progression you want, this is a strong opportunity to make a move into a well-paid, stable and varied field-based position.

To apply, please submit your CV by clicking on the relevant links. If successful, you will be contacted by one of our consultants within 3 working days. Unfortunately, due to the volume of applications we expect to receive for this vacancy, if you do not hear from us within this time, you should presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Grassroots Recruitment is acting as a recruitment agency and a recruitment business in respect of this vacancy. Grassroots Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and recruiter. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of age, race, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, religion or disability.