Fire Alarm Technician

Position: Fire Alarm Technician Trainee, Technician, Senior, or Master.

Level is assigned at hire based on verified experience, licenses, and certifications.

Company: Columbia Fire, LLC Location: Seattle, WA.

Field-based.

Most work is within roughly 100 miles of Seattle.

Not a remote or hybrid position.

Reports To: Division Manager Employment Type: Full-time, hourly, non-exempt Bargaining Unit Status: Non-union.

Fire alarm positions at Columbia Fire are not covered by the Local 699 collective bargaining agreement.

Travel: Periodic.

Roughly 510% of your time on work outside the 100-mile radius, which can include Oregon and Idaho.

Manufacturer training is usually out of state most Edwards classes are held in Florida and cross-training on extinguishers and kitchen suppression happens at our sister offices in Oregon or Idaho.

About Columbia Fire Columbia Fire designs, installs, inspects, and services fire and life safety systems out of Seattle.

We were founded in 2005.

We are part of Columbia Safety Services, a multi-state regional company that also includes Valley Fire Control in Albany and Newport, Oregon and Spokane, Washington, with an office in St Maries, Idaho, and FFF Protection in Greater Boise, with an office in Nampa, Idaho.

Our core values guide how we operate: Customer First, Grit, Effective Communication, Own the Outcome, Take Pride in the Work, and Do the Right Thing.

Edwards is our primary fire alarm platform and every one of our offices is an Edwards Strategic Partner.

We also install and service non-proprietary Potter, Fire-Lite, and Silent Knight when a project calls for it.

Fire alarm and service work is where the company is investing, and we will tell you that plainly rather than let you find out after you start.

Why This Role Exists Our alarm inspection, service, and install work is growing faster than our licensed technicians can absorb it.

At the same time, the pool of fully licensed and certified fire alarm technicians in the Puget Sound region is small and mostly already employed somewhere.

Sitting around waiting for a finished technician to come loose is not a hiring plan.

So we are opening this seat at every level, and we are being direct about what each level means.

If you are already licensed, certified, and able to run your own truck, we want you and we will pay for what you bring.

If you have six months of low-voltage or electrical work behind you and you want to learn this trade the right way, we will train you, pay for your licenses, and put you next to someone who knows what they are doing.

What we will not do is pretend those two people are doing the same job at the same wage.

The tiers below spell out what each level requires and what it pays.