Fire Damper Engineer Leeds, England
Job description
Fire Damper Engineer – Level 2
Salary: up to £34k dependant on qualifications and experience
Location: Leeds (mobile)
Benefits:
Pension, Life Assurance, Use of company vehicle for personal use, Employee Shares Schemes, Reward programme & Employee Assistance programme along with many other benefits & employee discounts.
Working as part of a specialised delivery team who aim to provide excellent levels of service.
Working 40 hours per week which may include variable shift patterns.
Have a flexible approach to working (overtime/shift work/weekend work) depends upon the client needs.
Have a positive “can do” attitude with the ability to problem solve.
Act as an ambassador for Water & Air.
Behaviours – have a desire to be professional, well mannered and polite at all times
Able to follow to instructions safely (method and risk assessment),
Be Health and Safety aware, including all aspects of the direct task being undertaken including your surrounding environment.
Have the ability to complete the allocated servicing work and the associated reporting diligently and in a timely manner.
Have good clear communication skills, understand the need to keep your line manager frequently updated.
Be a strong team player, who is self-motivated, works proactively to an exacting standard at all times.
Be an honest, organised and trustworthy individual, who presentable to the client and proud to represent us.
Willingness to undertake training and development which is linked to the role when offered.
The role will require the use of a PC, PDA, Tablet for reporting and hand tools, chemicals, access equipment and PPE.
Role can involve working away from home from time to time which involves overnight stays as per business needs.
The individual will be required to work at height using access equipment so must be physically fit.
Main Duties:
General
- Complete servicing work and technical reports/ paperwork as required. Completed in manual and electronic formats
- Ability to perform analytical surveys of ventilation systems prior to start of work
- Carry out allocated service/remedial repair work within agreed time schedules at specific locations.
- Adhere to the clients and company’s Health & Safety policy, quality procedures including site access requirements at all times.
- Understand and follow the relevant industry guidelines and bespoke customer specifications (explained by the air operations supervisor)
- Be available to carry out necessary works outside normal 08:00 – 17:00 hours. Predominantly 15:00 – 00:00
- Be willing to support weekend work as directed by the client contract.
- Be flexible and willing to support other depts within Water & Air as reasonably required by your line manager, including (but not limited to) water hygiene testing.
Ventilation Hygiene Ducting Inspections and Cleans
- Complete ductwork cleaning tasks within a team environment:
- Inspection and assessment experience beneficial.
- Kitchen extract cleaning in accordance with TR/19.
- Supply and extract ventilation cleaning in accordance with TR/19.
- The use of cleaning fluids, brushes, scrappers and sprays will be required
Fire Dampers Testing
Complete Fire Damper testing tasks which include:
- Testing in accordance with BS:9999 & RRFSO 2005
- An understanding of compartmentalisation strategy would be beneficial.
- Ability to manually test the operation of inline fire damper device.
- Dampers are located within various types of ducting located above ceilings, which requires the careful removal of ceiling tiles and access hatches to simulate the damper operation
- Documenting and recording the damper condition and physical location for the service report is key.
Air Quality Testing
Complete Air Quality tasks which include:
- Collection of air quality data and samples.
- Completion of air quality reports.
- LEV experience beneficial (but not essential)
- Understand the guidelines set by HSE and CIBSE in regard to workplace exposure limits.
Person Specification:
- Able to work individually or as a member of a team.
- Able to work with or without direct supervision.
- Physically able to complete required duties for the above roles – Requires physical labour on a daily basis in various weather conditions.
- Able to deal communicate directly with customers in a professional manner and represent the company.
- Have good customer care/relationship skills which allows a client to build trust
- Ability to complete onsite service reports.
- Ability to manage change successfully.
- Flexibility and open minded to working outside of normal working office hours
- Potential to be able to work away from home on a semi regular basis.
- Manage own expenses and complete the claims process.
- Ability and knowledge to use computers/PDA’s
- Basic understanding of Microsoft Office programmes.
- Full driving licence required with no less than 12 months driving experience on a full licence
- No more than 6 points current or pending on the driving licence and no driving bans within last 5 years.
