About Us

Building around 15,000 beautifully designed new homes a year in more than 400 prime locations nationwide; Persimmon is one of the UK's leading house builders, committed to the highest standards of design, construction and service. We believe our quality really differentiates us from the competition. In fact, our reputation is built on quality. We build quickly and efficiently and expect a lot from our office and site teams, however in turn we’ll reward you for your commitment and hard work and recognise your contribution to the business. Founded in 1972 by Life President Duncan Davidson, and with our headquarters in historic York, the Group is made up of a network of 28 regional operating businesses, giving us nationwide coverage. We're building places to call home right the way from Scotland through to the South West of England. The house building market is particularly competitive and we are always seeking people with residential development and construction experience. In return for your skills we will offer: - A Competitive Salary - A Contributory Pension - Life Assurance - Private Medical Insurance (depending on job role) - A car or car allowance (depending on job role) - Share Option Scheme - 23 days holidays - Additional holidays accrued with length of service We employ over 4000 staff across the UK. You can view our current employment vacancies at our dedicated site, www.persimmonjobs.com FTTP Broadband Installation Engineers required – Based close to the Dunfermline area with travel Calling all telecoms or TV installation engineers seeking a new challenge! It is essential that the engineers live within 20 minutes of Dunfermline based on the current and future site locations. Any candidates who live outside of this area will not be considered Persimmon Plc is excited to be recruiting a new mobile installation team to work within FibreNest – the Group’s new internet services division. FibreNest delivers ultrafast, full FTTP (fibre-to-the-home) internet access to new-build housing developments across the length and breadth of the UK. The team will primarily be responsible for carrying out full-fibre broadband installations into new homes and businesses across the East Scotland area in order to support our rapid network expansion plans. Who are we? Persimmon is a FTSE 100 listed company which builds more than 16,500 beautifully designed new homes a year and across 350 prime locations nationwide. With an annual turnover of over £3bn, Persimmon is one of the UK’s largest and leading house-builders, committed to the highest standards of design, construction and service. We believe that our demanding quality standards and focus on innovation differentiate us from the competition, and it is this on which our reputation is built. The main responsibility of the FTTP Installation Engineer will be to work effectively in a new 2-person team to attend pre-booked appointments and install FibreNest’s ultrafast broadband service into our customers’ new properties. This includes the installation and repair of fibre-optic CPE (customer premises equipment) in both residential and commercial buildings as well as the installation and maintenance of FibreNest’s under and over-ground fibre distribution network. Other duties will include: • Installing micro-ducts into existing underground duct access systems. • Carrying out blown fibre installations to individual buildings and apartment blocks. • Installation of fibre-nodes, cables and optical splitters within a GPON architecture. • Splicing, terminating and testing internal and external optical cables in-line with our rigorous quality standards. • Upgrading and maintaining our national network of roadside distribution cabinets. • Performing routine and ad-hoc quality assessments on both your own and subcontractors’ work. • Troubleshoot, diagnose and swiftly repair fibre faults within the network to ensure minimum disruption to service. • Responding to and resolving in-home customer faults and service outages. • Assisting other installation teams across the UK where necessary to support customer needs, project timescales or customer demand. • Delivering an exceptional, unmatched level of customer service at all times to both our new and existing customers. A good understanding or keen interest in UK telecoms networks and technologies is required as is a basic knowledge of electrical safety. We are ideally looking for candidates with 1st hand exposure of installing telecommunications infrastructure in customer premises as well as at the roadside and underground. Specific experience of fibre-optic installation, splicing and distribution would be particularly advantageous.