Job Description
We are seeking a skilled Service Contract Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background in fibre and copper cabling and experience of working in a data centre environment.
The successful candidate will receive a basic salary of £28-32,000 per annum (depending upon experience) and will receive a contract uplift of £4,866 per annum. A car allowance of £4,000 per annum is also payable. Overtime is paid at 1.5 x basic hourly rate.
Our Service Contract Engineers are required to work night shifts on a continental rota of four on, four off. Shift times work on a rota system of 18:00 - 04:00 and 20:00 - 06:00.
Responsibilities
- Provide resource to cover patching, testing, fault fixing and installations.
- Be proactive and able to address and resolve issues independently.
- Racking and decommissioning of hardware, e.g., servers, switches, miscellaneous devices
- Installation of plug and play managed power strips (no electrical terminations to be undertaken)
- Attain and maintain a level of knowledge and capability of SpliceGroup solutions to perform break-fix and small project implementation on both copper and fibre, (including fusion splice & test)
- Maintain documentation.
- Compilation of statistics and analysis of data
- Report writing.
- Manage stock levels of all materials on site.
- Ensure compliance with statutory and best practice health & safety and environmental requirements on site.
- On call (OOH) as part of a rota 60 minutes response time
Essential Skills and Knowledge
- Knowledge of Data Centre technologies/solutions; cold-aisle containment, power, cooling, resilient solution design
- Experience in the installation of multi-disciplined cabling systems.
- Experience of working in high profile data centre and time pressured environments
- The ability to confidently communicate and present at all levels.
- Experienced in Fibre splicing
- Experience of ILM and OTDR testing of MM and SM fibre networks.
- Knowledge of Fibre and Copper Patching and documentation
- Knowledge of the Data Communications sector
- IT Literate Microsoft office suite
- Live within 1 hours travel of Peterborough.
- Full clean UK driving license
Qualifications
- Maths and English GCSE Grade C / 4 or above
- Formal training in fibre splicing and testing, City & Guilds is desirable but not essential.
- Formal training in copper structured cabling, City & Guilds is desirable but not essential.
If you possess these skills and are looking to contribute your expertise in a dynamic engineering environment, we welcome your application.
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