IT Project Engineer

The Opportunity

This is an excellent opportunity to join a well established and successful Technology company as technical project and commissioning engineer to deliver projects on time, in a safe and compliant manner, to company quality standards,

Liaising closely with the IT Project Manager and customer to install 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:

• Liaising closely with project and technical support managers to oversee multiple teams of installation engineers on multi-site installations, ensuring project delivery expectations are achieved, providing daily status reports against plan.
• Understanding the project requirements, communicating with all stakeholders to ensure efficient onsite delivery of each project.
• Accountable for the quality and thorough execution of the onsite programme of works, providing the support and engineering leadership to the local installation teams on each project.
• Ensure timely and accurate completion of all project documentation (i.e. labour scheduling, in depth site survey reporting, health and safety, installation and service).
• Conducting site surveys using Matterport survey technology, ensuring every aspect of the survey is recorded and reported to the IT Project Manager.
• Attend client meetings ensuring to communicate with clients in a professional manner.
• Maintain standards of technical excellence within the department through active quality assurance on all works undertaken.

Customer Focus:

• Be recognised as the customers' 1st point of contact for the project delivery, remaining professional and providing an excellent customer service.
• Ensuring standards met customer expectations and all installation engineers have a good understanding of what good looks like.
• Be a role model to the installation team on site, demonstrating the highest standards of safety compliance, technical standards, and professional conduct.
• Understanding customer needs and provide advice, and an engineering service suitable to meet the customer needs in full.
• Ensure the provision of onsite customer service and support.
• Communicating with customers, and team colleagues as necessary, to provide a complete customer service on time and in full.
• Organise the training of customer representatives and other users on the system functionality, ensuring customer satisfaction and end user confidence.
• Professional, curtesy and positive can-do conduct always.

People Focus:

• Identify and implement training for the Installation team as necessary, including hands-on technical guidance and coaching.
• Management of clear performance communications to the installation team, providing timely feedback to ensure excellent project delivery.
• Communicate effectively with various teams ensuring that we are living our “one team culture” value to help deliver projects effectively and on time.
• Be personally responsible, taking responsibility for your own actions and working with others to resolve issues quickly and efficiently.
• Flexible and mobile, this role works and travels across multiple sites. Some working away from home will be a feature of this role.
• Professional, curtesy and positive can-do conduct always.

Health, Safety, Environment Quality Focus:

• Ensure the capture of detailed installation, inspection, and repair records, including asset tagging of all hardware for entry into Service and Support System.
• Ensure you are aware of any site environmental issues and that you manage the communication and safety of the installation team accordingly.
• Deliver and comply with the safety requirements, norms, and regulations throughout the installation and aftercare services, including delivery of toolbox talks, provision of method statements and RAMS, ensuring the understanding of the requirements by the Installation team and their compliance with expectations.
• All installation work to be quality controlled with appropriate recorded authorisation at each stage of the installation to assure the highest standards are delivered.
• Ensure the proper and safe use of tools, equipment, and PPE.

Finance Focus:

• Understand the financial control and management requirements of each project.
• Ensure the required care and attention is applied by all team members to the effective and efficient use of materials, tools and equipment.
• Optimise the working hours to deliver each assignment within the ‘cost to complete metric for each project.
• Flag any opportunities for improved ways of working.

This role covers the UK but mainly South, so your location ideally would be M1 or A1 corridor between Leicester and London. Salary £50k p.a.
plus van and benefits.

• The role will be predominately night-shift within the period 8pm- 8am
• Weekly working away from home will be a feature (Mon-Thur, home Fri)
• Standard contracted weekly working hours will be 42 hours

Your skills and experience

• Relevant Electrical qualification, with significant experience
• Experienced supervising teams working at heights, scaffolding, ladders,
• Experienced in the installation of IP CCTV cameras and mounted brackets automatic lifters
• Experienced in certified structured data cable installations
• Experienced supervising installing sub-bracketing using Channel Support
• Experienced in data rack building, termination, and data rate upgrade/tidying Bracket components and system
• Significant experience of supervising installation teams across multiple locations
• Shift working, typically between 20:00 to 06:00
• Able swimmer, the role will involve working on platforms erected over swimming pools
• Exemplary safety record gained in a similar context
• IPAF 3a, 3b MEWP
• Mobile and flexible to working regionally in the supervision of multiple Installation teams
• City Guilds Fibre Optic Cabling
• ECS card preferably to Gold level  
• CSCS card
• SMSTS
• UK driving licence
• CNCI certified
• Matterport Survey Tech experience

Desirable competencies / experience

• Familiar with network switching
• Familiar with wi-fi technologies and access point installation

 The Organisation

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

*They offer a wide range of benefits 

• Remote and service a UK wide remit, working in customer premises
• The role will be predominately night-shift within the period 8pm – 8am
• Weekly working away from home will be a feature (Mon-Thur, home Fri)
• Standard contracted weekly working hours will be 42 hours
• Salary will be £50,000 pa for the Project Engineer role, inclusive of night working rate
• Travel and subsistence will be provided 
• Branded company vehicle + fuel card will be provided 
• Contributary salary sacrifice personal pension
• 32 holiday per year [Jan to Dec]  inclusive of public holidays
• 3x salary life assurance
• Must be available to start in April 2025

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