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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