Fire Engineer

Our client is one of the world’s most respected design, engineering and project management consultancies, they are currently looking to appoint a Fire Engineer to join their team across the UK, preferred locations: Bristol, Epsom, London or Derby.  

Responsibilities:  

- Work in a range of sectors from residential buildings through to rail transportation or new energy facilities.  

- Manage multiple engineering projects from inception through to delivery in support of fire safety standards and codes.  

- Support the delivery of project work within time and cost budgets.  

- Keep up to date with regulations and legislation.  

- Developing fire engineering solutions on projects and ensuring the fire engineering strategy delivered.  

- Assess fire related risks in projects and working collaboratively to mitigate where possible.  

- Review and comment on the quality of fire safety related installations.  

- Undertake tenders for new work.  

- Prepare reports, take part in design team meetings, and liaise with client representatives as required.

- Engineering degree, preferably fire engineering or alternatively a post graduate qualification in fire engineering (Applicants with different backgrounds also considered).  

- Demonstrate a strong record of successfully delivering fire safety projects – experience in other sectors strongly considered.  

- Strong experience working with a range of fire standards including but not limited to BS9999, NFPA 130, BS9992, EN45545.  

- Being customer and end user centric and cultivate that philosophy in their team.  

- Able to work towards chartered fire engineer status.  

- A flexible approach to the working environment.  

- Willingness to travel will be a positive advantage.  

- Fire modelling experience will be beneficial.  

- Good commercial awareness.  

- Ability to collate information and have a clear and structured approach to report writing.