Temp contract (6 months)

The Purpose of the Role

The purpose of the Installation Engineer is to deploy fibre installation services within our customer premises, providing a best-in-class quality of service for our residential and business customers. The Installation Engineer reports directly to the Operations Manager, supporting our business’ vision by delivering a friendly, personable service, breaking the mould of the telecom industry’s notoriously poor customer experience.

Core Responsibilities

• Evaluating, testing and installing both legacy and new fibre networks.
• Liaising with the City team to make sure that both the internal and external customers experience a seamless connection.
• Ensuring that site operations are carried out to a high standard within contractual specification, to the relevant specification and within quality, health, safety, environmental and NRSWA guidelines and regulations.
• Ensuring all customer documentation is completed and checked in accordance with client requirements.
• Installing, testing and splicing fibre optic cables within existing infrastructure.
• Making sure that all site-specific risk assessments are in place.
• There will be an element of out of hours on-call working after 3-moth probation.

Skills & Experience

• It’s important that you have previous experience in fibre optic installation and OTDR, OILM testing and splicing.
• OSP Telecoms FTTP Build Experience
• Understanding of the New Roads and Works Act (1991) – NRSWA
• Working knowledge of CDM
• Fibre Optics Splicing and OTDR/IM Testing principles and experience.
• Experience of Blown and traditional cable installation techniques.
• An understanding of method statements and risk assessments.
• Experience of managing contracted engineering construction works.

Personal Attributes

• Highly motivated, flexible, and adaptable nature
• Confident, driven and a dynamic leader
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to plan, coordinate and communicate the ongoing build plan with those involved in the process and across the business effectively and confidently.
• Credibility, gravitas, confidence and the ability to influence will be paramount to success in this role
• Ability to quickly assimilate information and innovate to find solutions that improve delivery performance – both in individual projects and across the entire program.
• Commercial understanding, honesty, discretion and fair-mindedness rank high with a persuasive personality and an ability to deal with conflict. Both “grace under fire” and an aptitude for dealing with change and ambiguity are a MUST.

Reporting to

Operations Manager

Working with Freedom Fibre

We operate in a relaxed and industrious atmosphere; you will be encouraged to speak out and contribute wherever you feel you have something to offer. Our offices are open 07:00 through to 18:00 and we are happy to be flexible with working hours so you can enjoy a relatively stress-free commute or work from home to create the best possible work life balance that suits you and Freedom Fibre.

We offer an attractive package including bonus, generous pension, private health care and flexible working along with other benefits

Freedom Fibre recognise the service provided by recruitment agencies and as such have a Preferred Supplier List, with whom terms of business have been agreed. Only suppliers who have signed up to these terms can place candidates with Freedom Fibre and will receive instruction directly from us to do so. Freedom Fibre is therefore unable to consider speculative CV's or proposals from any other third party and any speculative CV's or proposals being sent into the organisation will be treated as gifts.

As such, Freedom Fibre reserves the right to directly contact any candidates who have been speculatively submitted by a third party and shall therefore not be liable for any fees whatsoever should it choose to engage the candidate’s services. Furthermore, speculative submission of candidate CV's does not establish a right of representation should the same candidate’s details also be submitted by a Freedom Fibre Preferred Supplier or independently by the candidate themselves.

Submission of any unsolicited CV's and proposals to Freedom Fibre will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of these terms and agreement that these terms are the totality of any commercial or contractual relationship whatsoever in respect of the candidate(s) whose unsolicited CV's were sent.