Job Role: AV Project Engineer
Company Name: JacobsMassey
Sector: Corporate Live Events
Job type: Full time
Salary: £40k-£45k
Job Location: London
Job description/ responsibilities:
We have a new direct opportunity for an AV Project Engineer based in London who will be part of a team designing, project managing, installing and commissioning integrated broadcast, audio-visual and conferencing technologies across a variety of markets.
Main Duties & Responsibilities include the following; other duties may be assigned
- Work closely with their Project, Operations and Warehouse teams to complete tasks and successfully deliver awarded SLA’s and projects to the satisfaction of their customer, within budget and on time
- Interpret written directives, including the SoWs, M&E drawings, schedules and specification documents
- Be proactive and improvise where applicable to improve on existing engineering plans and techniques
- Testing of all elements and user interfaces
- Carry out programming tasks and assist their third-party vendors with technical direction when developing user interfaces & control programs in line with the specification and their customer requirements
- Update equipment firmware and configuration profiles etc; staging of hardware including failure diagnosis, investigation and fault rectification
- Assist with managing project tasks with deliverables, procurement and system glue etc
- Communicate and work closely with their customers, partners and work colleagues to find resolutions and methods to complete work on time and within budget.
- Create/mark up drawings and schedules with installed changes to aid finalising ‘as-built’ information for use with SLAs and project handover
- Manage time effectively, complete office and engineering documents, test sheets; weekly timesheets and expense claim forms within the required timeframes
- Ensure that our client and their customer assets are not damaged or compromised in the course of your work
- Carry out all tasks with proper regard to RAMs, training, health & safety, ISO quality procedures and our client’s policies promoting quality and safe working practices for all tasks
- Fulfil project management and/or engineering duties on projects as required working with their team members and 3rd party resources
- Feedback learnings from projects to their internal teams to ensure a constant improvement culture
- Developing an effective working relationship with their staff and customers
- Ensuring that industry-leading their customer’s satisfaction is always your top priority
- Developing and maintaining a knowledge of our client’s markets, products and industry trends
- Occasional out-of-hours work, including weekends where necessary to hit deadlines
- Carrying out any reasonable request from your line manager
Other Duties & Responsibilities:
- Supporting their customers’ service and maintenance programs through SLA’s, resolving service tickets in a timely manner, undertaking proactive and reactive system maintenance whilst ensuring all activities and information is logged in our client’s ERP system.
- Ongoing training and development including health & safety and industry relevant qualifications and contributing to the training and development of junior roles
- Asset labelling and the creation of asset schedules for live projects
- Supporting their sales and marketing departments with technical input, articles, photographs of installations etc
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Other members of our client’s staff and/or sub-contractors part of project teams
Key Performance Monitors:
- Compliance with their H&S, Risk Assessment, Method Statements (RAMS) and our client’s quality practices
- Upkeep of H&S competency training and certifications, such as ECS, first aid at work, hot works, asbestos awareness, PASMA and IPAF etc
- Timekeeping
- On-time project delivery
- Completion of manufacturer or other industry qualifications to develop knowledge and skillset
Location:
- Primarily London based either working at their customer sites or remotely from home; regular travel necessary including occasionally international
Person Specification
Qualifications:
- UK full driving licence
- CTS, CTS-I, CTS-D, CCNA or similar industry qualification preferred
- Right to work in UK is essential, BPSS compliance is necessary for many of their customer sectors
- SC clearance preferred but not essential
- Ongoing training provided
Essential Experience:
- Design of AV & broadcast systems
- Commissioning of AV & broadcast systems
- Experience working in AV/IT network installations
- Proven history of work within a similar role in the AV or IT industry
Desirable Experience:
- Management of installations
- Used to working in a structured, process driven environment
- Familiar with major AV manufacturers’ products
- Knowledge of control, AV, basic network, broadcasting and streaming technologies
Personal Skills:
- Confidential and trustworthy with strong integrity
- Dynamic self-starter able to work on your own
- Tenacious, determined and well organised with good attention to detail
- Adaptable & flexible
- Good confident communicator able to effectively communicate technical information to non-technical staff
- Approachable team player with good interpersonal skills
- Methodical with strong planning skills
- Customer focused
- Ability to manage change
Experience required:
Audio Visual Systems – 3 years
Application deadline: N/A
Company Bio: https://jacobsmassey.co.uk/
How to apply: https://jacobsmassey.co.uk/jobs/12018