CityFibre provides wholesale connectivity to multiple business and consumer service providers, local authorities and mobile operators.

As the UK’s largest fibre-only network, and its only proven wholesale challenger, we’re busy setting new standards for what digital infrastructure can and should be.

Designed from scratch for the internet, our network is greener, more reliable and ready for the future. The products we provide over it not only lead the market on speed, value and service, they help businesses to innovate, provide entire communities with a better foundation for their digital lives and support economic growth, locally and nationally.

What does that mean for you? The opportunity to make internet connections (and daily life) a whole lot better, for a lot of people!

Joining us as a Technical Maintenance Engineer

The Technical Maintenance Engineer is responsible for maintaining and supporting the fibre network infrastructure, ensuring service stability, compliance, and rapid restoration during outages. This hybrid role involves both field and desk-based work, collaborating with internal and external teams to deliver technical solutions and support emergency restoration services (ERS).

You’ll receive a salary up to £43,000a car allowance, a performance related bonus, and a range of benefits to support you across your financial, physical and mental wellbeing.

This is some of what you can expect to be doing:

• Lead and deliver network maintenance activitiesincluding ERS, outages, diversions, and general repairs to ensure service stability and compliance
• Collaborate across internal and external teamsto provide technical support, restore services, and manage basic design creation and execution
• Conduct inspections and audits of network assets, reporting degradation or missing components and ensuring accurate data within asset management systems
• Support project planning and execution, including forecasting CAPEX/OPEX, producing high-level engineering input, and facilitating network changes

What you’ll bring to the role

We’re looking for someone with proven experience in delivering technical support across both field and desktop environments, capable of restoring service efficiently and producing basic network designs for execution by internal and external teams.

You’ll also have:

• Strong technical knowledge of telecoms infrastructure, including experience with CityFibre systems, PIA networks, and platforms like Salesforce, Smallworld, QGIS, and DepotNet
• Excellent communication and documentation skills, with the ability to produce industry-standard surveys, installation records, and as-built documentation
• Solid understanding of civil engineering regulations, diversionary works practices, and multiple telecom architectures
• Desirable qualificationsinclude City & Guilds or a degree in IT, Computer Science, Telecommunications, or Engineering, alongside NRSWA accreditation and a valid UK driving licence

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We’re a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality. We’re endorsed byWORK180 and we’re a partner ofDiversifying . We have pledged our commitment to the Armed Forces Gold Covenant, Care Leaver Covenant and we’re a Disability Confident Leader. Working together with our Employee Communities, we’re wholly committed to ensuring that our people’s voices are heard, and that everyone feels a sense of belonging and pride to be a part of CityFibre. If you’d like to explore our culture and values, check outThe CityFibre Way .

What you can expect from us

We want to offer you all the support you need to thrive inside and outside of work. This means giving you the tools to grow your career with us, as well as a comprehensive benefits package that you can adapt to your lifestyle. This includes 25 days annual leave, a day off on your birthday, a day off to support a charity or organisation of choice, a range of wellbeing and savings initiatives including private medical insurance, and supportive family friendly and menopause policies.

We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed, starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background, family or carer status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, gender, or gender identity, we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process, please email us at careers@cityfibre.com. We want to help!