Senior Fire Engineer

Overview

In this senior role you shape fire engineering strategies on flagship, cross-border projects. You will lead design work, advise on architectural form and functionality, and manage client interactions. The role blends technical fire safety solutions with project leadership across an international practice. You’ll contribute to a learning culture and influence outcomes on complex, high-profile facilities. This is a platform to advance your career through challenging, client-facing advisory work.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working
• life assurance and income protection
• holiday entitlement 25 days + birthday off
• generous pension scheme
• flexible benefits
• enhanced parental leave

Responsibilities

• Project manage fire engineering assignments with the team
• Support building design aspirations and architectural form during design
• Engage in client care and consultancy on projects
• Oversee financial performance, invoicing and monitoring of projects
• Represent the Fire Engineering team at design meetings
• Specify fixed fire protection systems (detection and/or suppression)
• Perform and review fire engineering calculations, including smoke modelling and evacuation analysis

Key requirements

• Experience as a lead fire engineer on multiple projects
• Higher education qualification in engineering or a fire safety subject
• Proven ability to deliver fire and life safety designs for UK-based projects
• Track record of obtaining agreement for prescriptive and performance-based solutions

• client care
• collaboration
• communication
• fire engineering calculations
• smoke modelling
• evacuation analysis

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