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Fire Alarm Apprentice
Fire Alarm apprentice to work within an established Fire Protection Company. Designing, installing and maintaining electronic systems to protect businesses, homes and emergencies. Work will be completed at customer sites across the UK, so a valid UK driving licence will be required. Company van provided.
What you'll do at work
- Working alongside various engineers, learning new skills and assisting where required
- Working on various customer sites, maintaining fire alarm life systems
- Learning how to fault analyse on fire alarm systems to determine equipment or repair is diagnosed
Where you'll work
12 Liverpool Road
Slough
SL1 4QZ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider:
SKILLS FOR SECURITY LIMITED
Training course:
Fire emergency and security systems technician (level 3)
What you'll learn
- 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
Day-to-day training will be completed at various customer locations throughout the UK. Apprenticeship training is completed at Skills for Security in Watford. Set weeks are booked in the diary for the apprentice to attend.
Qualification gained will be a Level 3 Fire emergency and security systems technician apprenticeship standard.
Essential qualifications
- GCSE in:
- English (grade 9-4)
- Maths (grade 9-4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
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Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
Works are mainly London & South based. An ideal location would be Reading / Slough. Could be some outdoor work, working at heights. A driving licence is required as driving to and from customer sites is required. A company van will be provided.
Bryland Fire Protection have been engineering fire protection solutions for over 50 years. We have the experience to design, install and manage the ongoing service and maintenance of fire protection, detection, and suppression systems. We are a leading fire protection company of directly employed staff that can deliver the complete turnkey solution of services from initial site survey, in-house design, installation, service and on-going maintenance.
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Fire Alarm Technician
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BRYLAND FIRE PROTECTION LTD
Lisa Clark
lisaclark@brylandfire.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000037465.
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