CCTV Installation Technician

AV Jobs; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000; Full time

Job description

The Opportunity

This is an excellent opportunity to join a well established and successful technology company as a CCTV Installation Engineer.

You will work as part of a mobile team, on a night-time shift pattern, installing structured fibre and copper cabling, wi-fi access points, and high-level bracket mounted IP CCTV cameras. Providing a best-in-class swimming pool safety solution through reliable connectivity, robust infrastructure, and precision installation.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Installing, building, and upgrading data rack cabinets
2. Installing copper and fibre structure cabling systems to Industry standard
3. Installing CCTV systems, including cabling, hardware, monitors, and cameras
4. Installing wi-fi and network hardware
5. Evaluating, diagnosing, and troubleshooting systems or installations to identify and rectify any functionality problems or defects
6. Maintaining, configuring, and repairing systems, hardware, and peripheral devices
7. Testing systems, identifying issues, and making necessary modifications
8. Understanding customer needs and provide advice, and an engineering service suitable to meet the customer needs in full
9. Provide onsite customer service and support
10. Communicating with customers, and team colleagues as necessary, to provide a complete customer service on time and in full
11. Training the customer representatives and other users on the system functionality
12. Professional, courtesy and positive can-do conduct always

People Focus:

1. Strong team working competencies
2. Flexible and mobile, this role works and travels across multiple sites. Some working away from home will be a feature of this role
3. Professional, courtesy and positive can-do conduct always

Health, Safety, Environment Quality Focus:

1. Maintain detailed installation, inspection, and repair records, including asset tagging of all hardware for entry into Service and Support System
2. Comply with the safety requirements, norms, and regulations throughout the installation and aftercare services, including method statements and RAMS
3. All installation work to be quality controlled and each stage of the installation delivered to the highest standards
4. Proper and safe use of tools, equipment, and PPE

Finance Focus:

1. Care and attention to the effective and efficient use of materials, tools and equipment
2. Optimise the working hours to deliver each assignment to the best of your skills and abilities
3. Flag any opportunities for improved ways of working

Based Birmingham or Leicester area, salary is £40k p.a. inclusive of night working rate. Plus Team Van.

The role will be predominately night-shift within the period 8pm to 8am
Weekly working away from home will be a feature (Mon-Thur, home Fri)
Standard contracted weekly working hours will be 42 hours
Travel and subsistence will be provided
Branded company vehicle + fuel card will be provided

Your skills and experience:

1. Relevant Electrical qualification, at least an NVQ Level 3 equivalent
2. Experienced working at heights, scaffolding, ladders, automatic lifters
3. Experience installing sub-bracketing using Channel Support Bracket
4. Shift working, typically between 20:00 to 06:00
5. Working as part of 2-person, on-site Installation team
6. Demonstrable ability to work in an organised and safe manner, maintaining the highest standards when unsupervised
7. Installation of IP CCTV cameras and mounted brackets
8. Mobile and flexible to working regionally with occasional cross-regional working
9. Experienced in certified structured data cable installations
10. Experienced in data rack building, termination, and data rate upgrade/tidying
11. Able swimmer, the role will involve working on platforms erected over swimming pools
12. IPAF 3a, 3b MEWP
13. City Guilds Fibre Optic Cabling components and system
14. ECS card preferably to Gold level
15. CSCS card
16. SMSTS
17. CNCI certified
18. UK driving licence

Desirable competencies / experience:

1. Familiar with network switching
2. Familiar with wi-fi technologies and access point installation

The Organisation:

Our client is a well established technology integrator. They have a 'one team' culture meaning everyone communicates well with each other and working together to reach the end goal.

They offer excellent additional benefits:

1. Contributory salary sacrifice personal pension
2. 32 holiday per year [Jan to Dec] inclusive of public holidays
3. 3x salary life assurance

The Recruiters:

AV Jobs are the UK's No. 1 specialist Audio Visual & Complementary Technologies recruiter and work with clients and candidates to ensure a perfect job fit every time.