Fire Emergency and Security Systems Technician Standard

Course Summary

Subject: Fire Safety

Course Title: Fire Emergency and Security Systems Technician Standard

Course Types: Skills / Professional Development

Course Level: Level 3

Course Description

Fire, Emergency and Security Systems Technicians design, install, commission, and maintain electronic systems in and outside simple and complex premises to protect individuals, homes and properties from risk and danger.

Systems include fire, security, and emergency systems to detect intrusion, provide surveillance, monitor, and control access to buildings, properties and sites or to detect fire and emergencies.

Skills include interconnection of equipment, programming, verifying performance/fault finding and testing and maintaining. Technicians will carry out planned jobs to install new systems, modify and maintain existing systems as well as respond to call-outs to repair faulty systems where they will utilise their problem-solving skills.

They will take a professional approach to customer service skills which include being presentable, tidy, and respectful as they can often find themselves working in and outside customers’ homes as well as in and outside business premises.

Where will I study?

North West Training Council

How will I study?

Year 1 –1 day tech cert at NWTC

Year 2 –1 day tech cert at NWTC

Year 3 / 4 – 1 day tech cert / Workplace assessments

SPECIFIC SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

What will I learn?

• Health and safety legislation, codes of practice and safe working practices.

• electrical and electronic principles

• installation and testing techniques for electrical and electronic components, equipment and control systems for fire, emergency, and security systems.

• fundamental principles and quality processes associated with industry/company codes of practices.

• fundamental design criteria, installation, commissioning and maintenance of fire, emergency, security systems and components.

•  system technologies

• how to store, retrieve, manipulate, transmit or receive data/information electronically in a digital form across a range of ICT applications

• environmental principles

• compliance to environmental legislation and the impact of processes and technologies associated with fire, emergency and security systems.

• customer service and the needs of others

• different communication styles, how to communicate in a clear, articulate and appropriate manner and how to adapt communication style to suit different situations.

• commercial awareness, risk and responsibilities

• operate in a safe working manner by adhering to health and safety legislation, codes of practice and applying safe working practices.

• core systems techniques

• contribute   to   the   application   of   design, planning, installation,  testing, commissioning, maintenance, fault diagnosis, service and repair and electrical and electronic techniques on fire, emergency and security systems.

SPECIFIC SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

What qualifications will I achieve?

After a period of foundation skills and technical knowledge development all apprentices will be required to achieve the following qualifications;

• End Point Assessment

ROLES FOR FIRE, EMERGENCY, SECURITY ENGINEERS

Alarm/Fire/Emergency/security systems installer

Installer/Maintainer/Engineer/Technician

Course Entry Guidelines

A minimum of four GCSEs at grade 4 (C) or above including English, Maths, Science and Technology.

Course Fees

Non Payable

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