Fire Fighting Equipment Technician

**The Client**

For the last 35 years, our client has been providing specialized routine maintenance and inspection services of Fire Fighting Equipment to a wide range of business types and industry sectors in the Perth Metro and Regional Western Australia.

Due to our client experiencing an increase in business activities, they are seeking to appoint an additional Fire Fighting Equipment Technician to join their team based in Kardinya.

**The Role**

Due to State Government regulations, all buildings or sites in WA that conduct commercial activities are required to equip their premises with fire fighting equipment. Part of the regulation is for the fire fighting equipment to be regularly inspected and maintained to ensure the equipment is functional and operational in case of a fire.

Our client provides the fire fighting equipment as well as inspection and maintenance services in order for their clients to comply to the government regulations.

The fire fighting equipment our client sells and inspects includes;
- **Fire Extinguishers**:

- **Fire Blankets**:

- **Fire Hose Reels, Hoses & Nozzles**:

- **Fire Hydrants**:

- **Fire Pump Sets**:

- **Fire Alarm and Fire Detection Systems**:

- **Emergency Lighting**:

- **Automatic Sprinkler Systems**

As a Fire Fighting Equipment Technician, you will initially be focusing on the following equipment;
- **Fire Extinguishers**:

- **Fire Blankets**:

- **Fire Hose Reels, Hoses & Nozzles**

All new Fire Fighting Equipment Technicians will initially undergo a 2 week paid training period in order to be able to carry out the core functions of the role on the above equipment, which includes;
- **Site Equipment Routine Inspection**:

- **Site Equipment Based Maintenance**:

- **Site Equipment Based Testing**:

- **Fire Extinguisher Replacement / Exchange**:

- **Tagging or Updating Asset Register of Equipment**:

- **Completing Site Reports**:

- **Following In-House Work Procedures**:

- **Completing Documentation - such as Job Sheets & Equipment Exchange**:

- **Workshop - Extinguisher refilling**:

- **Workshop - Extinguisher overhaul & rebuild**

Once the Fire Fighting Equipment Technician is trained in the above responsibilities they will be working autonomously where every morning they will collect their daily job sheets and schedule. Planning your day is a vital part of the role where you will need to know the Perth Metro area very well in order to plan your daily site visits, ensuring that you plan your routes to avoid wasting time on the road.

You will also be required to review in detail your job sheets as there maybe special instructions on site entry, designated times frames the client would like the inspections to be carried out through to jobs that require extinguisher replacements where you will need to secure the correct number, size and types of extinguisher.

Site visits can vary from 1 to 15+ per day, depending on the size and location of the clients. There are some jobs such as Hospitals, Shopping Centers or large Office Facilities that can take 1 to 2 days to complete due to the size of the facility and a large number of equipment that needs to be checked. Other sites such as Cafes or small offices may only take 30 minutes.

Having very good personal grooming and presentation is mandatory as you will be entering a large variety of sites across corporate, health care, restaurants and workshops where clients work activities are been conducted. You will be required to communicate with clients representative regularly, providing a high level of customer service that is courteous and professional at all times.

Checking the equipment requires training, however in short you will be visually assessing the equipment as well as completing physical checks such as extinguisher mechanisms through to unreeling fire hoses to ensure the mechanism allows for the entire length of the hose to be easily unrolled. In addition, you maybe conducting pressure tests on fire hoses through to replacing fire extinguishers that require refilling or overhaul.

When you are not conducting site visits you will be working at our clients workshop in numerous activities across;
- **Refilling Extinguishers**:

- **Fork Lift Operation**:

- **General Warehouse Duties**:

- **Overhaul & Repair of Fire Fighting Equipment**

**Working Hours & Days**

Our client does not usually require their team members to work additional hours, where the standard working days and hours are as follows;
- **Monday to Friday**:

- **8:00 AM to 4:30 PM**:

- **40 Hour Week**

**Employment Structure**
- **WA C (Manual) Class Drivers License**:

- **Possess or be able to acquire a White card**:

- **Possess or be able to acquire a High Risk Fork Lift License**:

- **Be able to acquire a National Police Clearance**:

- **Be able to acquire a Working with Children Check**:

- **Be able to pass regular Drug & Alcohol Screens**:

- **Be able to work autonomously without supervision**:

- **Have a very good