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Trainee Installation Engineer Opportunity at Custodian Total Security Services
A fantastic opportunity to join Custodian Total Security Services as a Trainee Installation Engineer, based at their North Shields site. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to progress within their role, and applicants should be keen to learn and have a flexible approach to their work.
Duties:
- Installing cabling / pulling through (first fix)
- Drilling holes / using a cordless drill and a range of hand tools
- Mounting equipment for intruder alarms, access controls, and CCTV
- Liaising with customers on site
- Updating site paperwork
- Following health & safety guidelines
Requirements:
- Driving licence preferable for this role.
- Probationary period applies.
- Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training.
- You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training Details:
Training Provider: ACCESS TRAINING LIMITED
Training Course: Fire emergency and security systems technician (level 3)
Course Contents:
- Comply with safety legislation, codes of practice, risk assessments, method statements, safe systems of work and apply control measures.
- Complete functionality tests of systems and components during commissioning systems.
- Apply and implement system design, planning, and installations including additional components to existing systems.
- Carry out takeover procedure, diagnose, and repair faults.
- Operate ICT equipment and systems to store, retrieve, manipulate, transmit, or receive digital data and electronic information.
- Comply with environmental and sustainability, regulations, and standards.
- Complete functionality tests of systems and components during handover of systems.
- Carries out risk assessments.
- Communicate with others verbally, for example, internal and external customers, colleagues, and managers using sector-specific terminology.
- Work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, as part of a team.
- Consult and engage with occupants or others who are or could be affected by work (for example vulnerable, older, and disabled people) and respond appropriately.
- Communicate with internal and external stakeholders using sector-specific terminology through written means.
- Plan and install systems cabling.
- Carry out maintenance activities on fire detection and alarm systems and their components.
- Carry out maintenance activities on intrusion alarm, access control, video surveillance (CCTV), and their components.
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Training Schedule:
- You will attend Access Training (Team Valley, Gateshead) for day release – 1 day per week/fortnight and be enrolled on the Fire, Emergency, and Security Systems level 3 apprenticeship standard.


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Essential Qualifications:
- GCSE in: English (grade 4) Maths (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills:
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Eager to Learn
- Flexible
Other Requirements:
- Please ensure that you can travel to North Shields for a 9.00am start.
- Please note you may be required to work at height or in small spaces due to the nature of this work.
About the Company:
Custodian specialises in Intruder Alarms & CCTV installation & maintenance. They are based in North Shields, North Tyneside. They are a NACOSS GOLD Approved Company with more than 35 years of experience, operating throughout the North East of England and North Yorkshire.
Company Benefits:
- Company Pension Scheme
- On-site free parking
- Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
- The role will develop over time, and there is the possibility of securing a company vehicle in the future for the right candidate.
Contact Information:
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ACCESS TRAINING LIMITED Sophy Lamb slamb@accesstraining.org
Reference Code: VAC2000052649
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