Breathing Apparatus Maintenance Technician – Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service

Do you have strong interpersonal and organisational skills and have solid understanding of respiratory protective equipment (RPE) and associated ancillary equipment? If yes, join our team and be part of the Technical department!

The primary purpose of the role is to ensure that all respiratory protective equipment (RPE), associated ancillary equipment, and other related equipment is tested, repaired, maintained, recorded, and replaced as necessary.
The successful applicant will be responsible for:
• Carrying out the required acceptance tests and quality assurance on all new RPE and any equipment repaired tested or serviced outside the Service
• Maintaining stock levels of spares
• Ensuring all compressed breathing air cylinders in the Service are tested by an approved contractor
• Monitoring the purity of air delivered by breathing air compressors in the Service
• Investigating and reporting on the malfunction of equipment
• Carrying out Portacount testing for new and existing employees