At a Glance
- Tasks: Support critical infrastructure with cabling installations and network upgrades in secure environments.
- Company: Leading independent engineering firm with a rich history and innovative projects.
- Benefits: 25 days holiday, private medical insurance, and flexible benefits for your lifestyle.
- Other info: Opportunities for training, career progression, and a supportive work culture.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team and work on high-profile projects while developing your technical skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in fibre, data, or voice cabling and strong customer service skills.
The predicted salary is between 51750 - 63250 £ per year.
Onsite at customer sites in and around Portsmouth with potential for working away from home for periods of time.
Permanent position with a competitive salary and benefits.
Summary:
Join a growing team as a Structured Cabling / Managed Services Engineer, supporting critical infrastructure in secure military environments. This hands-on role covers a mix of break-fix support, structured cabling installations, network upgrades, and the maintenance of fibre, data, and voice systems. It's a great opportunity for an engineer with fibre, data, or voice cabling experience who wants to broaden their technical skills and work on high-profile projects. You'll be involved in varied and challenging assignments, gain exposure to a wide range of technologies, and benefit from genuine opportunities for training, development, and career progression within a specialist, fast-moving environment.
Some of the key deliverables of the role will include:
- Always operate in a safe manner and in accordance with NG Bailey H&S policies while demonstrating appropriate Health and Safety leadership.
- Ensure adherence to all NG Bailey’s policies, processes, and procedures.
- Ensure all works comply with NG Bailey IT Service’s standards and to meet and where possible, exceed Client expectations.
- Keeping material control and maintain records of deliveries and project stock.
- Ensuring the provision of timely and accurate internal and customer project reporting (timesheets, mileage returns, daily reports, completion certificates).
- Monitoring the quality and productivity against programme and maintain daily site records and reports.
- Ensure that positive relationships are maintained with the customer through efficient delivery of projects.
- Ensuring Service and Projects installation meets internal and client specifications and statutory requirements.
What we’re looking for:
- Knowledge of MoD standards (preferable).
- Previous experience with fibre, data and voice cabling.
- Proven ability to locate and rectify faults.
- Solid experience on working in ‘live’ customer sites.
- Ability to work from construction drawings.
- Strong customer service skills.
- Willingness to be part of an on-call rota and working out of hours.
- Willingness to travel work away from home (UK and overseas).
Please note: Security Clearance is conditional for this role; assistance will be given by NG Bailey Vetting. Full Driving Licence is required.
Benefits include:
- 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays with an option to Buy/Sell additional days.
- Pension with a leading provider and up to 8% employer contribution.
- Personal Wellbeing and Volunteer Days.
- Private Medical Insurance.
- Life Assurance.
- Free 24/7 365 Employee Assistance Program to support mental health and well-being.
- Flexible benefits to choose from including Dental Insurance, Gym Membership, Give As You Earn, Travel Insurance, Tax Free Bike.
Next Steps:
As a business, we’re on a journey to build on our culture where everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. This starts with recruitment and how we bring people into the organisation. We’ll do our best to outline the recruitment process to you ahead of time with plenty of notice. If you require any accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and awarded Gold Standard in the Armed Forces Covenant.
About Us:
We are one of the leading independent engineering and services businesses in the UK. Founded in 1921, with a turnover of £500m and 3000 employees, we are proud of our history of developing great people through our investment in training. Working across a variety of sectors within the building and infrastructure industry, our innovative, responsible and forward-thinking approach allows us to work on fantastic ground-breaking projects, providing solutions using the latest tools and technologies. Progression is something we value, and we will make sure that when you join us you have a clearly defined development path, supported by regular reviews, training and ongoing support to enable you to be the best you can be.
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