Senior PAVA Applications Engineer

Job Title: Senior PAVA Applications Engineer
Location: UK - Remote / Hybrid with site travel
Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 DOE
Working Hours: Monday - Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

About the Role
As a Senior PAVA Applications Engineer, you will provide senior-level technical expertise across audio and life-safety solutions, with a particular focus on Public Address and Voice Alarm (PAVA) systems.

Working closely with the Head of Application Support and the Lead Applications Engineer & Solutions Architect, you will support pre-sales, project delivery, and service activities for complex, safety-critical audio systems. This role emphasises compliance, redundancy, resilience, and system-level integrity, ensuring solutions meet regulatory requirements while remaining practical and deliverable.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide specialist pre-sales technical input, feasibility assessments, and early-stage design development
• Identify technical risks, redundancy requirements, resilience considerations, and compliance implications
• Contribute to bid-stage system concepts, schematics, and technical narratives
• Collaborate with senior technical stakeholders to maintain consistency of solution strategy
• Contribute to detailed design and development of bespoke audio and life-safety systems
• Support programming, configuration, testing, and commissioning preparation for audio and PAVA systems
• Produce and review technical documentation including system schematics, signal flow diagrams, rack layouts, and handover documents
• Provide technical support during commissioning and handover, resolving complex audio and PAVA issues
• Maintain close collaboration with the Lead Applications Engineer & Solutions Architect to ensure technical consistency
• Act as a specialist escalation point for in-service audio and PAVA systems
• Support upgrades, modifications, corrective works, and lifecycle reviews

Qualifications & Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years experience in a technical audio engineering or application support role
• Proven experience delivering PAVA and life-safety audio systems
• Strong understanding of EN 54, emergency voice alarm principles, and life-safety compliance
• Familiarity with related standards and regulations such as BS 5839-8 and ISO 7240
• Experience with DSP-based audio systems (e.g. Q-SYS or equivalent) and knowledge of their integration with life-safety systems
• Ability to interpret and contribute to technical drawings, schematics, and system documentation
• Valid UK Driving Licence
• Right to work and remain in the UK
• ECS / CSCS card desirable

Package

• Salary between £50,000 and £60,000, dependent on experience
• Life insurance cover (twice annual salary)
• Medicash private healthcare plan
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Tailored training and development plans
• Pension scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Income Protection Scheme

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