Portable Firefighting Equipment Engineer

An exciting opportunity exists for a portable engineer to service portable fire-fighting equipment within commercial premises. As a result of winning several new blue-chip customers the client is looking to recruit additional engineers across different uk locations. This well-established company and market leader offer exciting career opportunities and a chance to progress your career. The position also offers an opportunity to work with new and emerging technologies with a mixture of mainstream and unusual challenging clients.

You will have excellent customer facing skills and enjoy a customer facing role. It is imperative you are also a driver. You will be reporting into the Regional Service Manager and Senior Manager

PRIME PURPOSE
Servicing portable fire fighting equipment at our customers’ sites;
surveying sites to ensure adequacy of portable fire fighting equipment cover;
identifying and maximising sales opportunities;
cross-selling the Group’s other products and services;
developing the Group’s business and expanding its customer base; and being accountable for, and ensuring effective self-management, planning and delivery of, the designated workload.

KEY TASKS
Site-Surveying and Servicing of Portable Fire Fighting Equipment
Attending the sites of our customers and prospective customers, typically a mix of most types of commercial premises (offices, shops, factories, warehouses, sleeping accommodation, places of assembly, healthcare premises, transport premises and facilities, animal premises and facilities, etc).

Comprehensively surveying such sites to ensure their safety, the adequacy of their portable fire fighting equipment, and their compliance with the relevant British Standards (including BS 5306 part 8), legislation (including the Fire Safety Order (or, for Scotland, the Fire (Scotland) Act, and associated regulations)), etc.

Servicing portable fire fighting equipment in accordance with the relevant British Standards (including BS 5306 part 3), legislation (including the Fire Safety Order (or, for Scotland, the Fire (Scotland) Act, and associated regulations)), etc.

Safely handling the portable fire fighting equipment (pressure-vessels weighing up to 20kg each) in accordance with good practice and guidelines.

Ensuring the health and safety of themselves and others.

Be aware of, and have regard for, trade-related environmental issues.

Provision and Delivery of the Group’s other Products & Services

Where deemed so appropriate by the Company:
Surveying, making recommendations, quoting, etc in accordance with the applicable legislation, guidance and standards for the Group’s other products and services.
Providing, delivering, fitting, etc those products and services.

Examples include:
surveying and selling safety signage
delivery of staff training to the staff of the Group’s customers.
Developing the Group’s business and expanding its customer base through identifying, marketing and selling all of the Group’s products and services to new and prospective customers.
To achieve key performance indicator (KPI) objectives set by the Company.
Further the Group’s reputation and trade-standing through professionalism, good-practice and ethical selling techniques.

ATTRIBUTES REQUIRED
Positive, self motivated proactive individual
The ability to operate effectively under pressure to rapidly changing circumstances
Flexible – able to successfully accept and implement change
Good communication skills, with the ability to encourage, negotiate and persuade others to achieve objectives
Well organised and disciplined
Approachable, with a good sense of humour.
Team player.
You will be required to do a Criminal Bureau Records check