Gemini AMPM Ltd · via Time Served

Fire alarm engineer jobs

Fire detection and alarm is the core of Gemini AMPM. Service rounds, commissioning, fault-finding and installs on commercial and residential sites, with a van, a patch and engineers who take BS 5839 seriously.

Fire alarm panel internals: cards, looms and LEDs

The work at AMPM

Service and maintenance on addressable and conventional systems: the planned visits, the call-outs, the remedials that follow. Commissioning on new installs and upgrades. Fault-finding that gets to the cause, not the symptom.

Sites are mixed: managed residential blocks, offices, schools, industrial units, care settings. You will see plant rooms, panel internals and cause-and-effect matrices, not just a test key and a clipboard.

Paperwork is digital and done on the day. Certificates, asset registers and the golden thread are part of the job, because the building owner is accountable and so are we.

Kit, systems, standards

Advanced, Kentec, Gent, Notifier, Morley and C-Tec panels
BS 5839-1 (commercial) and BS 5839-6 (domestic) systems
Aspirating detection, interfaces to suppression, smoke control and access
Networked and graphics-based systems on larger estates

Tickets we look for

FIA units (or equivalent manufacturer training) and time served on systems
Clean driving licence; ECS/CSCS useful; IPAF and asbestos awareness we can sort
Multi-discipline fire and security backgrounds are welcome

Pay

Asking salaries we are seeing in the market this month for fire alarm engineers in the South East: around £38k to £40k with 10+ years in, £28k to £32k at two to three years. Every role we advertise carries a salary band; the number is agreed in conversation.

Where you join the ladder

Apprentice → Mentor → Practitioner → Master. Time-served engineers join as Practitioners; senior service and commissioning engineers as Masters, with Mentor responsibility for apprentices on the patch. The Academy certifies where you already sit; nobody restarts at the bottom.

And the bit no competitor can say: the AMPM Group is employee-owned. Stay, and you own part of it. How ownership works →

Where

Rounds and projects across London, Sussex, Surrey, Kent, Hampshire and Essex. We try to keep the patch sensible: a Sussex engineer should not be living on the M25.

London · Sussex · Surrey · Kent · Hampshire · Essex

Live roles

Fire Alarm Engineer (Service & Commissioning) · Salary band C · open all year

Straight answers

Who is the employer for fire alarm engineer roles?

Gemini AMPM Ltd. Time Served is the careers brand of the AMPM Group, not an agency: roles are direct employment with the group company.

Where is the work?

Rounds and projects across London, Sussex, Surrey, Kent, Hampshire and Essex. We try to keep the patch sensible: a Sussex engineer should not be living on the M25.

How do I apply?

Register your CV at timeserved.uk/register in about sixty seconds, or email it to cv@timeserved.uk. A human reads every CV within three working days.

Written and reviewed by the AMPM Group senior management team. Updated September 2026.