Architect-designed home at dusk, lit pool in the foreground
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Senior Automation Technician · Control4

You're the one they call
when it doesn't work.

Then you're sent to the next job before you can fix it properly. Here, the whole house is built, programmed and tested in the workshop before it reaches site.

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$100k–$115k + superVehicle, phone, laptop7:30am–3:30pm, Mon–FriDromana · Peninsula · Bayside

Sound familiar

Good at the work. Tired of everything around it.

Sold on price

The job was won cheap, so it's installed in a rush, and you're the one who goes back to make it work.

Nobody asks

You can see the better way to do it. The decision gets made by someone who's never opened Composer.

Or it's your own business

Quoting at night, chasing money, every problem coming home with you. Good at the work, worn out by the rest.

How the work runs

The house runs in the workshop before it runs on site.

Baillie is engaged early, alongside the architect, often before a builder is appointed. By the time anyone pulls a cable, the engineering is done.

  1. Design and documentation: drawings, rack elevations, cable schedules, a defined scope.
  2. Prewire to the cable schedule.
  3. Racks built, programmed and bench-tested as a whole home in Dromana.
  4. A short, clean fit-off. The problems were found in the workshop.
  5. Handover, then aftercare for the life of the home.
Baillie's Dromana studio and workshop, with a company van out front

The role

Install, program and commission complete home systems.

Lighting control, shading, multi-room audio, cinema, networking, CCTV, intercom, access control and climate, on architect-designed homes across Melbourne, Bayside and the Mornington Peninsula. You'll be the person who opens the laptop when something isn't talking to something else.

What you'll do

  • Program and commission Control4, from drivers and bindings to the scenes and schedules a client lives with
  • Build, program and bench-test racks in the workshop
  • Design, configure and troubleshoot the network: VLANs, switching, PoE, Wi-Fi, remote access
  • Commission CCTV, intercom and access control on IP
  • Fit-off and handover, working from the works document
  • Service visits, and finding the fault others couldn't
  • Teach the standard to the people coming through

What you already know

  • At least three years hands-on in smart home, security or AV integration
  • Control4 programming in Composer Pro, or real depth on Crestron, Savant, RTI, Loxone or KNX
  • IP networking beyond plug-and-play
  • IP cameras, NVRs, intercoms and access control, commissioned and fault-found yourself
  • Logging into a system remotely, reading what it's doing and fixing it
  • Holding your own with a client, an architect or a builder
  • Driver's licence and White Card

What we'll teach you

  • Control4 certification and manufacturer training, paid for
  • How Baillie runs a job: the factory pre-build, the works document, the phase gates, the handover
  • Lighting control and shading, if those are the gaps
  • A path into programming and commissioning leadership as the business grows

This isn't an electrician's role

If you've run data cable and fitted a few keypads, this role starts where that ends. We'd rather tell you now than waste your afternoon.

The package

$100,000 – $115,000
+ super$50.60 – $58.20 an hour, set on what you bring.

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Working here

What it's like here.

Found on the bench

Problems are found in the workshop, not in the client's house. You arrive with drawings, a tested rack and the time to do the job properly.

Room to grow

Nobody stays stuck in one seat. When someone's ready for more, it's handed to them, with the training to do it well.

A standard that holds

The standard doesn't drop when a budget gets tight. The back of the rack matters as much as the front, and the training to get there is paid for.

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Apply

Five minutes. No cover letter.

Every application is read by the owners. If you're shortlisted, come and see the studio and the workshop before you decide anything.

About you
Where you are now
Years hands-on in smart home, security or AV integration
Which platforms have you programmed yourself?

Programmed, not installed. Tick all that apply.

Networking

How comfortable are you setting up VLANs and managed switching on a residential network?

The one question that matters
The practical bits

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