The group hires across thirteen trades through Time Served, its own careers brand: fire alarm, security, suppression, sprinklers, passive fire, electrical, mechanical, carpentry and more, across London and the South East. Pay published on every role. Every CV read by a human within three working days. And the part no competitor can match: the group is owned by an Employee Ownership Trust: the people who do the work own the company.
Gemini AMPM: fire alarm, security systems, suppression, sprinklers, extinguishers, smoke control, emergency lighting and passive fire. Trading since 1997; BAFE and NSI-grade work with the compliance culture to match.
AMPM Building Services: electrical, plumbing, heating and mechanical, carpentry and building fabric across commercial estates. Standing roles open all year; salary bands stated on every listing.
Apprenticeships run with the AMPM Academy: real training on real sites, a Mentor from day one, and a ladder that certifies where you already sit: Apprentice, Mentor, Practitioner, Master.
The market read is public too: the salary guide publishes what engineers across the South East are actually asking, from live data, and the group pays inside it.
Half the careers a school leaver gets pointed at happen on a screen, and AI is coming for screen work fast. It is not coming for these. No software hangs a fire door, wires a panel, commissions a sprinkler valve or crawls a riser with a torch. The trades the group trains are hands-on, certificated and needed in every building in the country, and they get more valuable as automation eats the desk jobs, not less. Serve your time in one ↗ and you hold a skill no model can download.
The Employee Ownership Trust has held the group for its people since October 2024. No sale out from under you, no private-equity flip: the value the work builds comes back to the people who build it. Plain-English detail on how the EOT works is on the careers site.