Lead Fire Alarm Engineer

What you will do

Supervisors have excellent communication and customer service skills along with people management skills with the ability to develop and manage a team of engineers/subcontractors on site. They have the ability to deal with new and unexpected situations with a proactive and professional approach and have the ability to build strong relationships and inspire and influence others.

Site Electrical Supervisors deliver the preventative maintenance, routine service and remedial works in the field associated with the site wide fire detection and Gas Suppression systems of the customers premises.  Typical systems would include Conventional, Addressable fire detection and alarm systems, networked systems, graphics packages, Gas extinguishing systems.

As Supervisor the successful candidate will also lead working parties for mechanical system maintenance, repair and modification, and fire extinguishers with technical support from our lead mechanical engineer on site the same resident site in South Wales year round.

How you will do it

• Assist with sales/estimating/Design where required.

• Assist with Integrity testing, commissioning, witness testing and client training on site where required.

• Oversee contract on site notifying of any alterations/variations to design, reporting back to FLM.

• Reporting of any near misses/H&S issues with immediate effect to FLM.

• Keep daily diaries of works completed and ongoing projects, to be submitted weekly to FLM.

• Subcontractor Monitoring – monitor key performance on a contract by contract basis reporting of any issues/downtime which could result in costs to JCI.

• Management and monitoring of site documentation to ensure both accuracy and expediency, including reviewing timesheets for correct hour booking and appropriation.

• Conduct regular safety and quality audits on the Engineers and Sub-Contractors to ensure that the employees are using the correct equipment in the correct manner.

• Monitor Health & Safety of allocated staff and Sub-Contractors, ensuring compliance with all legislation & Carry out TBT’s on site on a weekly basis.

• To behave in a manner consistent with Johnson Controls culture and actively promote this culture within the team through inclusivity, diversity and empowerment.

• To establish, manage and monitor customer service to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction is achieved. 

What we look for

• Excellent communication and customer service skills. People management skills with the ability to develop and supervise a team, preferably within a field role.

• Ability to deal with new and unexpected situations with a proactive and professional approach. Ability to build strong relationships and inspire and influence others.

• MUST hold a Full driving license.

• Relevant gas suppression experience (Argonite, CO2, Inergen & Novec) is desirable.

• Mechanical fire suppression system experience desirable.

• Supervisory experience is desirable.

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