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Fire emergency and security systems technician (level 3)

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Information about Fire emergency and security systems technician (level 3)

Designing, installing and maintaining electronic systems to protect businesses, homes and properties against fires, break-ins and other emergencies.

• Knowledge, skills and behaviours:
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  Knowledge

  • Awareness of Health and safety legislations, codes of practice and safe working practices, relevant to the occupation and the operative’s responsibilities. Including Health and Safety at Work Act, BS 7671, BS EN 50131, BS EN 62676 and BS 5839.
  • Testing techniques for electrical and electronic components used in fire detection and alarm systems. The principles of using meters, applying Ohms law, formulae, calculations and taking readings.
  • The principles of fire detection and fire alarm systems: features and design criteria, survey methods and impact on the fire safety industry.
  • Principles and techniques for maintaining fire detection and alarm systems and their components using tests, diagnostics, taking readings and recording information.
  • Principles of security and fire risk assessments: function, content and how to implement them.
  • Principles and techniques for maintaining intrusion alarm, access control, video surveillance (CCTV) and their components using tests, diagnostics, taking readings and recording information.
  • Principles of planning and project management of fire and security system installation: commissioning, and handover.
  • Data collection, storage and sharing methods and techniques.
  • Environmental legislation: impact on fire and security systems processes and technologies.
  • Principles of customer service: technicians' responsibilities, impact on brand, professional image and commercial risks.
  • Verbal communication techniques. Giving and receiving information. Adapting style to audience. Barriers in communication and how to overcome them. Sector specific terminology.
  • Principles and techniques for installing and maintaining electronic systems: SI units, quantities, formulae and calculations, electromagnetism and electromagnetic induction, ICT applications, smart Apps and power supplies.
  • Written communication techniques: paper based and digital. Plain English principles. Sector specific terminology.
  • Awareness of global carbon reduction needs and application of carbon reduction solutions.
  • Testing techniques for electrical and electronic components used in intrusion alarms, access control systems and video surveillance systems (CCTV). The principles of using meters, applying Ohms Law, formulae, calculations and taking readings.
  • Collaboration working techniques with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Techniques for planning and installing systems cabling; methods of containment and protection.
  • The use of digital information systems in the fire and security safety sector.
  • The principles of intrusion alarms, access control, video surveillance (CCTV) features and design criteria, survey methods and impact on the building security industry.
  • Equity, diversity and inclusion legislation and its impact in the fire and security safety sector.

  Skills

  • Comply with safety legislation, codes of practice, risk assessments, method statements, safe systems of work and apply control measures.
  • Complete functionality tests of systems and components during commissioning systems.
  • Apply and implement system design, planning and installations including additional components to existing systems.
  • Carry out takeover procedure, diagnose and repair faults.
  • Operate ICT equipment and systems to store, retrieve, manipulate, transmit or receive digital data and electronic information.
  • Comply with environmental and sustainability, regulations and standards.
  • Complete functionality tests of systems and components during handover of systems.
  • Carries out risk assessments.
  • Communicate with others verbally for example, internal and external customers, colleagues, and managers using sector specific terminology.
  • Work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, as part of a team. Consult and engage with occupants or others who are or could be affected by work (for example vulnerable, older, and disabled people) and respond appropriately.
  • Communicate with internal and external stakeholders using sector specific terminology through written means.
  • Plan and install systems cabling.
  • Carry out maintenance activities on fire detection and alarm systems and their components.
  • Carry out maintenance activities on intrusion alarm, access control, video surveillance (CCTV) and their components.

  Behaviours

  • Puts workplace health, safety and wellbeing first for self and others.
  • Takes personal responsibility for sustainable outcomes when carrying out duties, using industry and sector environmental best practices.
  • Promotes equity, diversity, and inclusivity in the workplace.
  • Committed to maintaining and enhancing competence of self and others through Continued Professional Development (CPD).
  • Acts ethically.
  • Collaborates with others.
• Apprenticeship category (sector): Construction and the built environment
• Qualification level: 3; Equal to A level
• Course duration: 36 months
• Maximum funding: £18,000 ; Maximum government funding for ; apprenticeship training and assessment costs.
• Job titles include:
  • Alarm installer
  • Alarm technician
  • Fire systems engineer
  • Fire systems installer
  • Fire systems technician
  • Security systems engineer
  • Security systems installer
  • Security systems technician

View more information about Fire emergency and security systems technician (level 3) from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.